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News about the white house counsel, given your own past, the pat cipollone and pit rick philbin will have to testify to the d.c. grand jury. they are rejected the former president's wide claim of executive privilege and attorney/client privilege. they were in the room at the key moments, how significant could they testimony be. >> it could be very significant. they have a lot of knowledge. they have been before the grand jury before. the grand jury that they are returning to. they invoked some sort of privilege. it is suspected it was executive privilege. grand jury proceedings are not spread ...

Claiming attorney/client privilege, executive privilege. so we were looking for a fight for justice to force them to answer. however this ends up, it has implications for other people in the white house, very high ranking, very close to trump who have also been subpoenaed. >> two top vice president advisers were compelled to testify in the last few weeks? >> reporter: that was the precursor fight to this. a similar fight where donald trump was trying to block these final answers from being given by two people in the vice president's office. greg jacob and mark short. in that court fight what w...

Used for years now. explain that further. >> reporter: right, exactly. look. this is a fight that's been going on behind closed doors, secret proceedings, before a federal court judge here in washington, and it's really consequential because the two witnesses we're talking about, pat cipollone who was the former white house counsel, his deputy patrick philbin, again, they were major witnesses and they were pushing back against these vote fraud claims by the former president, and they appeared before the criminal grand jury, the federal criminal grand jury here in washington, but they declined ...

>> that's the georgia investigation, federal investigators are also triing to get testimony. sources telling cnn the justice department is asking a federal judge to force pat cipollone and patrick philbin, the deputy white house counsel, along with the white house counsel during trump's time in office to testify as part of its january 6th probe and prosecutors want answers about their conversations and interactions with trump. michael, trump has been trying to block former advisers from testifying citing executive and attorney/client privileges, but we do know two advisers two vice president p...

They were white house counsel and so that's public information that and a public client that i'm not sure that they're going to allow -- that the judge would allow their testimony to be shielded by the attorney/client privilege in this case. i think there may be times that they could testify about what they saw, what they heard, you know, other statements made surrounding certain events involving the election and certainly the insurrection on january 6th. there may be times when they pause and say, i can't answer that because it may, in fact, involve some specific attorney/client privilege mat...