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It's what we conferred to the president's legal team. >> i think it's a very dangerous precedent for a committee to ask you to violate a communication privilege between the president and vice president about their personal conversations. i think for many of us, we've expressed our concerns about what transpired and have been open about what the vice president's position was. he wrote an open let to the -- letter to the public explaining that position. it does have a very partisan taint. >> liz cheney is on that committee and she voted with donald trump almost more than any republican in the ho...

Communication privilege because she is a wife? >> yeah, i think i'm with ben on this one, alex. just because the president said he had a conversation with melania about this topic, i don't know that we should credit that. i think the presidential lie tally is approaching 9,000 at this point so, you know, yes, there would be a marital privilege and there are different marital privilege laws in different jurisdictions but essentially the marital privilege is designed to protect from public scrutiny, one-on-one private communications between spouses and by virtue of the fact that he just said thi...

Hasn't met the level for overcoming executive privileges is a spurious one. executive privilege is a communication privilege. it is the president getting advice from his top policy advisers. there is nothing about this case that has to do with policy advice. and a lot of it has to do with before he even became the executive. so the notion that this is executive privilege overcoming the need by a grand jury is silly. but the standard -- >> this is from the espy case, right? >> sit is important to the investigation and potentially unavailable elsewhere. that is the standard that mueller has to o...

Sally yates can shed important light on that. i think for that reason the white house does not want her to testify. let's bring her in. let's hear what she has to say. >> today's open hearing was postponed by chairman nunes along with a closed hearing with fbi director comey, nsa director rogers. and today the "washington post" reported that the trump administration was in fact seeking to block sally yates from testifying on russia at all. the post report details the back and forth through both letters and meetings between the justice department and yates' own attorneys. the doj reportedly con...

The week by devin nunes as the california republican and the white house denied implications of coordination over postponing the hearing on russia. now the hearing was supposed to take place yesterday with former acting attorney general sally yates who was fired by the president when she refused to defend his travel ban order. "the washington post" reports that in letters to yates' attorney, the trump administration sought to block her from speaking to congress because potential topics were covered by attorney/client privilege or the presidential communication privilege. house intel ranking de...