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An on and off switch, but it's clear the former president's ability to assert executive privilege once he is out of office is pretty limited. secondly, the supreme court in another ruling also involving president nixon, by the way, said executive privilege is confined about discussions with the president's official responsibilities, making policy, so one argument might be does a frustration about the election returns, is that executive privilege, and for all these reasons the president can try and block this in court but i think he will have every legal scholar i have talked to, former white h...

Against the fake audit. these audits are going. elsewhere whatever they, find the -- we had one election, we had a very careful, count we had recount, and then we have a sort of crazy audit because no one -- they have legitimate legitimate at the notion that you can get a political group and to overcome, or try to overcome, the actual election returns. so i think it's bad. >> don calloway, among the states, texas, i cannot say this enough, we cannot reiterate this enough, a state donald trump won is not going to do an audit information counties in the first seven months of this year. you know ...

Yesterday that rosen refused to do certain things that trump asked of him specifically pertaining to election returns. we know jeffrey clark was the head of the division of the time, he wanted to send those letters out to several states including georgia, that falsely claimed that doj had found irregularities in a vote that it affected the outcome. and we know that rosen and his deputy richard donoghue, they refused to sign onto those letters. but now, jeffrey clark has become the focal point for congressional investigators. sources told us, that when rosen testified, he talked about five epis...

>> he was asking him to do certain things related to states' election returns, which he refused to do. how directly involved the president was, the pressure he was putting on jeffrey rosen, it was real, very real, and it was very specific. >> rosen also talked to investigators from the doj's inspector general's office friday. there is no known criminal investigation of trump or any other official, but he says there may be basis for one. >> what donald trump did here, in fact, was try to overthrow the election. and there are all kinds of potential criminal charges because asking the department ...

There. >> there is a lot there. >> what did he tell you specifically about the pressure that the former president placed on him directly? >> i can't get into that at this moment. i can tell you ultimately there will be a report. there are more people we will tlie to bring in. i would like to bring in jeffrey clark, for example. he was the heir apparent in trump's mind if rosen was not going to do his bidding. and rosen stood fast and didn't. so there was a tense period of time there at a moment when the president was going to put his own man as attorney general. >> i understand you're not read...