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Of new york last year there was a reasonable fear that much of what was swept up in that search would be attorney-client privileged information. but the fact that evan corcoran and jay trustee acting for president trump in this motion say that there's privileged information doesn't make it so. i have heard no specific assertions of attorney-client privileged information. as we talked about earlier, the executive privilege arguments just don't hold up. >> what about the request he is making to get these documents back? this was in the letter that national archives sent him. why would he want th...

Bad enough. it has been weeks since the house voted to hold mark meadows in contempt. the supreme court denying trump's exec tifl privilege claim damages his defense and now his top aide is out speaking. how do you see this playing out for mark meadows? >> i'm at a little bit of loss on this one, don. it took doj about three weeks, about 21 days to decide that they were going to charge steve bannon with contempt, not that anyone's counting but we're now on day 45 of doj deciding whether it's going to charge mark meadows. now, look, mark meadows is definitely a more complicated case than steve ...

Case than steve bannon. last week we got this ruling from the supreme court that really gutted donald trump's executive privilege arguments, and it wasn't even based on donald trump being the former president. they just said even if he was the current president, his executive privilege claims lack so much merit that we can essentially throw them out here and now. there was some speculation maybe doj is waiting for that opinion. that was last week, that was a week and a half ago already so i'm not sure what they're waiting for and i hope we get a decision one way or another soon. >> elie honig,...

Of the house's argument here that they should be held in contempt which means they could be indicted? >> the house has an incredibly strong argument, ari. as you say, mark meadows had some sort of arguments to maybe not be prosecuted for contempt and merrick garland's is evaluating that now. these guys have squat to use the technical legal term. i mean, it's astounding to me that they are making the same executive privilege arguments that trump's inner circle made six months ago and trump made and it got rejected bit united states supreme court in an 8-1 decision. what's next for these people?...

Evidence. now, it's a temporary, temporary win-win here because it looked like we were headed towards a potential contempt vote and contempt prosecution of meadows. now, the committee at least gets some information out of meadows. some is better than none, and meadows avoids the possibility of being federally indicted which to most non-steve bannon people is a good thing. however, the big question is, how initial will this initial cooperation be? what happens when the committee starts asking mark meadows those really tough questions that may be really damaging for donald trump? will he answer?...