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Balanced against the person who wants to hold it or it cannot be. i think in this instance, they're going to lose. this is an investigation of a insurrection. executive privilege doesn't cover that kind of behavior. that's clearly why the white house has said we're not putting any executive privilege on this first batch of documents that have been requested from the national archives. and that is going to undercut it for whoever else tries to rely on it. so, pam, i don't think it's going to work. i think it's a stall tactic. and it's an effort to make these more protracted and maybe go away if...

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Congress' oversight duties. and somehow bill barr then says there won't be a criminal case and that i think is the guts of what's so wrong here. somehow this justice department and bill barr who's given us very little room to trust his decision making in this regard cuts off both avenues of review, and they're very different as we know. prosecutorial and congressional. >> it's an amazing sort of legal magic trick doj pulls off. sounds like a crime has been committed, why don't you let us see it, and they say no crime, no one's going to see it. this also sounds fratly corrupt itself, ian, and n...

Executive branch. but here's one you can't do that the executive privilege doesn't include the ability to interpret something in order to cover up corrupt abuse of power. and as you pointed out at the top of this show, the white house officials knew something had been done and they knew it t when they did it. >> i want to follow up on that because we're going to end up with some big fight on privilege here. it's to me inevitable in the same way the nixon tapes endsed up with a big fight on privilege. what you're saying is privilegeh cannot be invoked as a legal matter as a means of covering up...

Has absolute immunity regarding her tenure in the white house, and you say that is a legal alice in wonderland. what do you mine by that? >> there's no such thing. there's an executive privilege and a logic to having executive privilege. certainly the president needs to be confident that people coming to him, talking about the policies are not going to be called in to testify about it, that makes sense. when you extrapolate that to what we have here. which is not talking about policy, but arguably obstruction of the justice and other criminal activities. the executive privilege doesn't exist. ...