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Client privilege. in my view, there's no attorney client privilege that protects a discussion between father and son. >> is there attorney client privilege between father and son? >> there's no daddy dearest privilege. that does not exist. the fact that a lawyer is present doesn't even mean the privilege exists. >> the fact this reaches into the family, it will make it difficult if jump jr. is compelled to testify and he corroborates what george papadopoulos is saying. >> yeah. it makes it difficult, also expree expressly why trump has put his family members in the administration, ivanka and j...

"the godfather" know freddo never should have turned on the don. so i'm wondering maybe he's -- like there's a godfather privilege or something? this is nuts and it's never going to stand up if the republicans subpoena him, but i don't know if they will. >> isn't it also if another person is present it's not attorney/client privilege either, right? i mean, the idea is it's between two people. >> if there's a third person in the room, they can ask that third person and she can testify or he can testify. >> right. >> right. but we understand why we need that. we want clients to talk to their law...

Mueller is not going to stand for invoking of attorney -- of a nonexistent attorney/client privilege, i would imagine. >> right. you have a fifth amendment privilege, and i'm not saying that he would assert that, but you do have privileges. you can refuse to answer. or you can just be in contempt. this happened in several cases, where the prosecutor can't get a witness to cooperate, a judge can then find you guilty of contempt. he has options. but the most important thing is that he not lie. at least he put up a cockamamie excuse to not talk about a conversation, but that's better than lying, ...

Statement before a house committee today and manu raju joins us now with the latest. let's talk about this testimony. last hour i was talking to congressman swalwell. i understand that donald trump jr. evoked attorney/client privilege when asked about conversations with his father. >> yeah, that's right. that was earlier this year after the initial reports came out about the trump tower meeting from june of 2016. now, what donald trump jr. told the committee today was that he could not disclose this meeting that did occur after those initial reports came up, the meeting between him and his fat...

The privilege is between the lawyer and her or his client. that's the privilege. so that clients can talk to their lawyers in confidence. there's a priest/penitant privilege. there's a spousal privilege in many states where spouses can't -- there's not a daddy dearest privilege. you know, fans of "the godfather" know freddo never should have turned on the don. this is nuts and is never going to stand up if the republicans subpoena him, but i don't know if they will. >> isn't it also if another person is present it's not attorney/client privilege either, right? the idea is it's between two peop...