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Are not muzzling him. he will stick to what he did in the public record. doing anything else would be dangerous and reckless. >> neil: so if he has asked to elaborate a little bit more on neither deciding one way or the other on obstruction of justice, how does he handle that? sticking to the script is one thing but he leaves it open-ended. >> i think he handles it by saying what i wrote in the report is as far as i can go because of certain privileges. one of them is the deliberative process privilege which is referenced in the letter from the department of justice. and you know who invoked t...

Attorney general sessions was fired, but every democrat without exception grandstanding. they asked questions that had nothing to do, zero relevance t their proper oversight role. the only person purpose was to hit him with cheap shot after cheap shot after cheap shot knowing that whitaker was rightfully going to assert with called the deliberative process privilege in refusing to answer questions about conversations h had with other doj staff, it wa totally expected. given the democrats over-the-to performances today, it is a wor season after all, we thought tonight we would give out our own ...

Request for testimony fall outside the scope of oversight, and more specifically, they will say there is executive privilege, there is deliberative process privilege, there is attorney/client privilege. both sides have weapons and defenses, but it's not going to be as easy as it has been for trump so far. >> the prosecutors, they have an advantage here to some degree, right? they have two inside men, two major players in the trump organization. michael cohen, of course, but allen weisselberg, the trump organization cfo. trump is going to jail, weisselberg has been granted immunity for his coop...

Privilege, the deliberative process privilege and the presidential communications privilege." now, i'm not a lawyer. and statistically speaking neither are you. but think of that for a second. this is for the transition. so trump's not president. so he's claiming presidential privilege over stuff that happens before he's -- i mean, there can't be presidential privilege if donald trump wasn't president yet unless there's presidential privilege for the president of the trump organization. that's not how it works. counsel of the general services administration, which is the agency that provided t...

>> yesterday attorney general sessions, in deliberative process, not necessarily well known to the public, a number of privileges, attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, deliberative process privilege, this is not anything new, not something the team concocted prior to these hearings. eric holder, and the obama administration, the deliberative process privilege on many occasions, one was when president obama appointed richard corker to director of the financial protection bureau, questionable recess appointment. >> we can't get into all the stuff from the past but why would the attorn...