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Statement, the first place you went for a second opinion was to the white house. >> i did not go for a second opinion. the question was is the information contained here suggest to executive privilege? not whether or not it met urgent concern sdplp so the first place that you went for advice as to whether or not you should provide the complaint as at statute requires to congress was the white house? >> i'm not authorized as the director of national intelligence to provide executive privilege information. i think it is prudent as a member of the executive branch to check to ensure that in fact ...

The law here is pretty clear, you have seven days to turn this over to congress, why didn't you, why were you compelled to block it? >> i think that's a question he will get. i'm sure he's prepared to answer it. i think he's in a very bad spot. department of justice knows that's executive privilege information, you can't release that information. does he have the ability to go around that decision, i'm not sure. >> he didn't need to go to the department of justice. that's the thing, he never needed to go. that's not the route that's laid out in a scenario like this but he did. let me ask you t...

That don't put them above the law, that is what the law provides. if you don't like it, change the law. >> laura: they say there is no absolute immunity from testimony. there is no absolute executive privilege. but conversations behind closed doors with the president of the united states, i think going back to the clinton administration, the olc opinion, it was tweeted earlier tonight, it's pretty clear. this is classic executive privilege information. classic. >> first, it is, number one. number two, presidents often invoke executive privilege and leave it to the courts bear that is where the...

House democrats will take out subpoena power. everything they can. adam schiff will do everything possible to get their hand on the report. i think a couple things are important. transparency is in everybody's interest. everybody should want this report to come out as fully as possible. does national security and classified information need to be redacted? sure. if we get into further game playing. taking out weak claims of executive privilege information. and grand jury material. there's ways to disclose that. we'll have a incomplete report and nobody will be satisfied. no matter what your vi...

And so i think the team is very cognizant of this debate right now in terms of it's going to go to the attorney general. presumably, william barr if he's confirmed. and i would like to think they're going to write it in a way that the report, itself, will be written in a way that can be released fully then there would be an annex that would have privacy information, executive privilege information, classified information, whatever else, that could be supplemental to the report. but i think that they will do a great service to the american people and to the attorney general if they deliver this...