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Communications with the president. the committee gave him a lot of leeway in that respect. it does seem with more and more of these trump officials being summoned to the grand jury that prosecutors are, in fact, sort of priming for what will be a fight over executive privilege, and how much information they can get out of especially eric hirschmann, on the same plane with pat cipollone, pat philbin as deputy white house counsel, so this further adds to the evidence that the department of justice is going full speed ahead while also prepping with how to fight and deal with this executive privil...

A -- in addition. if you don't strike a deal with us, trump is going to try to draw this out as long as he can. cipollone might, but trump could intervene and try to extend it as long as possible, make every appeal. that's the only thing, i think, they can be offering in return for some kind of favorable treatment on the executive privilege issue. >> i want to drill down on something. you said they are targeting or looking directly at his conversations. why are you saying that, harry? >> because that's exactly what cipollone and phil bin have to offer. they're in the inner sanctum, almost the ...

Sort of dotting their eyes and dotting the t's and preparing for a court battle over a potential executive privilege issue, signals that if information is what you want, the negotiation approach, let alone the muscle isn't going to cut it. now, remember, concerns about privileged are believed to be why they chose not to pursue any contempt of congress charges against mark meadows or against could be no, as opposed to a course de benin and navarro. at the same time, the department has now greenlight all of the access to the house select committee's transcripts. that is more than about 1000 witn...

Course, a republican there. it is interesting to hear they're still looking into some of the things that happened after election day. the executive privilege issue i think he acknowledged, it is a very big development, if the federal investigators are trying to take that head on, they have a possibility of learning a lot more from some of the witnesses. >> yeah. let's bring in cnn anchor chris wallace, the host of "who's talking to chris wallace" to talk more about this with us. what did you think about what you heard from mick mulvaney there? >> well, you know, i -- mick is an interesting guy...

And actually go on record under oath and say exactly whatrivilew happened here. and they wouldn't they hid behind a privilege which they wouldn'tas allow, which they wouldn't allow me to the judge the time narrowcast was on the executive privilege issue. >> i spent my whole life in washington. i see a lot of io acrimonious debates. but the idea you would sendn someone to prison because you don't like his political views, there's no allegation that you organize january 6th over there in front of the cameras looking fully insane. they don't like your politics. they hate your attitude didn't and ...