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There's been no change in how the department has worked with the internal counsel's office. over the past day the department and committee counter exchanged letters concerning the at the prerogatives of the branches. i'm pleased we have reached an agreement that allows me to appear here voluntary. is am pleased that if we have differences we'll work them out in good faith before resorting to subpoenas or other form am legal processes. i will answer the economiee's questions as best i can, but i will continue the long-standing executive branch practice of not disclosing information that may by ...

Office. over the past day the department and the committee have exchanged letters concerning the prerogatives of the legislative and executive branchs. i'm glad we reached an agreement for me to appear here voluntarily and each branch would seek to accommodate each other and if we have differences we'll try to work them out in good faith before resorting to subpoenas or other formal legal processes. i will answer the committee's questions as best i can. but i will continue the longstanding executive branch practice of not disclosing information that may be subject to executive privilege such a...

At the trump organization, the trump foundation, the trump campaign, the trump inaugural committee and the trumps. and that is a long, serious complicated ongoing financial investigation which i believe is going to continue well past the day that mueller files a report. >> i want to remind people what is going on here if you're just joining us. we had about 25, 20 minutes in that range of testimony, opening statement from matt whitaker. five minute questions from both the chairman and the ranking member. one of the key questions here is executive privilege, and where does it apply? how does it...

Cool and do his best to be very cooperative with the committee's questions. >> we've got two legal experts here in the studio. we'll come to you now. executive privilege, that was the topic that came up pretty early on here. this is what matt whitaker said about exercising executive privilege. take a listen. >> i will answer the committee's questions as best i can. but i will continue the long-standing executive branch practice of not disclosing information that may be subject to executive privilege such as the contents of conversations with the president. >> does that hold up? >> no. >> not a...

Will be willing to say. how hard democrats will push him to say it. let's go to the hear right now on capitol hill. >> concerning the respective prerogatives of the legislative and executive branches. i am pleased we're able to reach an agreement that allows me to appear here voluntarily. i am pleased also that we agreed that each branch would seek to accommodate each other and that if we have differences we'll try to work them out in good faith before resorting to subpoenas or other formal legal processes. i will answer the committee's questions as best i can. but i will continue the long-sta...