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But it's not absolute. the supreme court has already said there is really a public interest standard there also. if it involves a crime and it involves public interest, then executive privilege can be overwritten. so he can declare it. also i think there is a tendency of the president or anybody in the executive branch to call executive privilege. first you narrow that down to the real executive privilege issues, and then you decide whether the public interest is so demanding that it has to be released. it's not the end of the question where he says, i'm declaring executive privilege. >> sara,...

Nothing would stop barr. bar isn't going to have the final say here. if he tries to with hold even one word they going to litigate that to the absolute end of the earth. they are really going to push the executive privilege issues. it is almost certainly going to wind up in the united states supreme court. >> they will subpoena for the whole report. >> and one question is also how much of this report mueller wants to be released to the public. there are ways he could have written this report, written executive summaries, didn't include privileged information that would make it easy for congres...

"x." it can be inferred next to what other people are saying. the failure to debrief suggests they did not understand what was going on here and that suggests there may have been admissions made. but we really don't know. >> hang on one second. i asked this question in the last hour. do you think it's finally starting to settle in that the president is realizing don mcgahn is not his personal attorney, that he represents the office of a the presidency? >> now that we're talking about why mcgahn had no defense to talking to mueller. have raised executive privilege issues. but he actually has no...

Activities before he became president. this would only apply after january 20th of things like the firing ems so would be potential law enforcement? no. i just recent lip read u.s. versus nixon on the executive privilege issues, and i think that the overwhelming weight shows that he'd have great voke and unless the prosecutors need it and it will be the prosecutor's decision, not his. >> we know rudy yul janie has he said it would be middlesex, nsh

>> if these interviews are going like the ones before it. more specifically about what she has to say about her time in the white house. what we have been told my members so far is that she is refusing to answer questions about her time in the white house. she is answering time about her time in the campaign, but this gets into the executive privilege issues or the holding out the right to assert executive privilege, probably the more accurate way to do this. she is simply telling the committee behind closed doors