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Appeared before the house intelligence committee. >> such calls are typically subject to executive prifl. as a result, we consulted with the white house counsel's office and we were advised much of the information in the complaint was, in fact, subject to executive privilege, a privilege that i do not have the authority to waive. >> maguire refused to say whether he discussed the whistleblower complaint with the president but revealed trump never asked him to figure out the identity of the whistleblower. >> i can say although i would not normally discuss my conversations with the president, i ...

Carrie, if these communications involve the president, are they covered by prifl, as the department of justice office of legal counsel seems to be arguing and therefore not a matter for the intelligence community? that seems to be the administration's argument. >> the administration is make a few different arguments, throwing out a few different arguments. it's unclear which ones really would stick. they're saying prifl. they're not saying what kind of privilege, executive prifl, attorney/client prifl. it's unclear what kind of prifl would exist. these are the intelligence committee so they're...

Complaint information to capitol hill. white house and doj advised odni that the controversial complaint is outside the scope of intelligence communities that would be protected under law. odni has told the committee from the general counsel of odni that essentially it's not an urgent matter under law and there could be confidential communications. in one instance this involves the president's conversation with a foreign leader. it's not surprising that the white house would want to weigh in on whether there's an executive prifl issue here. what makes this so unique, jake, of course, is the fa...

Are the white house counsel, what's the very first thing you do? >> again, you're not going to get it if you're the white house counsel, it's going to go to barr. if barr is going to then release any portion of it and that portion contains stuff as to which the president could assert executive privilege, the president's lawyer, the white house counsel, should be advised of that and given an opportunity to respond to those specific parts of the report that implicate executive privilege. you'll be waiting as white house counsel to hear from barr about whether there's anything in there that he's ...

Counsel's office. from a walk in the park to a very memorable two years of conflict. one thing that will be important to watch with this white house counsel's office is if the house flips, how aggressive cipollone is in executive privilege. ty cobb was running point to the way the white house responded to the tons of document requests they got from mueller, cobb made it keer they were not going to invoke executive prifl, that they were going to play ball and be a good teammate to the mueller investigation. will cipollone take that same tag in working with the hill? probably not. it's a very go...