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Least. of course, we have to remember that the law and the regulations that apply to the special counsel's work don't require any sort of summary to be provided as we anticipate today, and i think that that will likely lead to the classic no good deed goes unpunished sna scenario whereby vi provided, congress doesn't think it's enough and asks for more detail nap . that is going to cause a series of negotiations between doj and the white house with respect to executive privilege issue and congress to determine exactly what parts of the report are produced to the congress. it is possible, katy,...

That nixon, u.s. versus nixon t settle that issue. in order to ask about presidential commune kications s got to show the evidence needs is very important and got to show he can't get it from anybody else. if he goes into a court and says i want to talk about obstruction, rudy giuliani will say wait a minute, what evidence do you have of obstruction. your view of the law of obstruction is wrong. he's going to get tied up in court for a long time. i think mueller knows that he might not win on the executive privilege issue. >> real quick. i asked rudy giuliani about this tonight. i said the pre...

And said this guy will talk to me. i think one reason he hasn't done it is i don't think he necessarily wins in court. i think a lot of people assume that nixon, u.s. versus nixon settle that issue. in order to ask about presidential communications he's got to show the evidence needs is very important and got to show he can't get it from anybody else. if he goes into a court and says i want to talk about obstruction, rudy giuliani will say wait a minute, what evidence do you have of obstruction. your view of the law of obstruction is wrong. he's going to get tied up in court for a long time. i...

Me. i think one reason he hasn't done it is i don't think he necessarily wins in court. i think a lot of people assume that nixon, u.s. versus nixon settle that issue. in order to ask about presidential communications he's got to show the evidence needs is very important and got to show he can't get it from anybody else. if he goes into a court and says i want to talk about obstruction, rudy giuliani will say wait a minute, what evidence do you have of obstruction. your view of the law of obstruction is wrong. he's going to get tied up in court for a long time. i think mueller knows that he mi...

Here is something that is very interesting that i don't believe anybody has talked about. remember, in the watergate years, you had u.s. versus nixon where the supreme court rejected president nixon's blanket claims of executive privilege, but in that decision, they pointed out that leon jaworski, the special counsel, had been explicitly granted the power to con sex executive privilege. i'm not sure bob mueller has the power under his appointment from rosenstein or the regulation to go in and challenge the executive privilege so there's a possible third way for the president to bottle this up ...