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White house to cooperate? >> i hope the white house would cooperate. congress is a co-equal branch of government. we have a right to sever this information. i'm not going to get into the specifics of the various requests. the fact is the american people deserve the truth and congress has a rightful role to provide appropriate oversight and again, i hope that the white house would move forward in cooperation. >> the white house is likely going to argue executive pr privilege applies here. he does have the right to with hold certain information from congress and executive privilege would seem to...

>> the "the washington post" is reporting that the white house counsel's office is beefing up on lawyers as they're telling people to have garage sales, they're add are more lawyers for an executive privilege fight. jennifer rogers, this feels like a preview of the next six months of our lives where the white house is planning to fight the release of all or parts of the mueller report based on executi executive privilege. explain how that works. >> i think you're right. i think their beefing up their legal team is in part getting it back to where it normally is because so many people have quit...

Occurred after he became president. that doesn't mean it's absolute as we saw in the nixon case. the court held there that in a criminal investigation the privilege may yield and have to give way in the quooest for the truth. robert mueller has a question to ask uhimself how hard does he want to push this in the courts? >> do we think there's questions of obstruction or pre-negotiated between lawyers from both sides? >> well, if you listen to rudy giuliani and i would caution anyone from listening too much to rudy giuliani but he is our only source. the questions did not relate to obstruction ...