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Than when we may see an dimt or if we see an indictment, we're fixing to see litigation that's going to last for a long time, over the next year, at least. i expect they will challenge executive privilege. let's pause and say, i don't care if it's trump or somebody you like as president. executive privilege is important because it allows the president to get advice. you hope that he or she is getting good advice from people. we want to have protections. in this case, he may have pushed it to shield himself, somewhat from his involvement in the january 6th incident. but this question is not jus...

The people who asserted at this point? >> you know, that's an excellent question. they may very well be trying to run out the clock. the simple fact is though -- it's important they said three months, laura, only three months. it's very quick in sort of supreme court and law terms. it's a relatively straightforward question, the executive privilege question as it made it to the supreme court. look, hen this has come up in the past in history, and it hasn't been many times, the biggest one being 1974 with richard nixon during watergate, the supreme court ruled against the president, saying exec...

Executive privilege question as it made it to the supreme court. when this has come up in the past in history -- and it hasn't been many times, the biggest one being 1974 with ruichard nixon during watergate -- the supreme court ruled against the president, saying executive privilege is a real thing. it's important for the president to be able to speak to his aides in private, but it can't trump a criminal investigation -- pun intended. but, look, the clock is not the midterms. the clock is five years from now because that's the statute of limitations on most of the crimes we're talking about,...

Msnbc legal analyst. and neil, i want to pick up on that point there, they reached what appears to be kind of a quick agreement of mark short and jacob, a quick agreement of areas that they would stare around in order to avoid the issue of privilege at this stage. but the prosecutors reserve the right to come back to it, bring them back into the grandeur, possibly after fighting this out in court and erasing any attempts of privilege, and -- >> exactly, lawrence, i've been waiting for the story because trump has already lost these executive privilege claims in the united states supreme court, ...

Committee from accessing his white house records, which are currently held by the national archives. while the justices consider whether they're even going to take up the case, trump also attacked and asked that they put on hold the lower court decision allowing the documents to be released. our cnn legal analyst is here. joan, to be clear, as you've said earlier, these are not the former president's records. these are the public's records. but what's -- i'm so fascinated by here is the fact that this executive privilege question is actually a question that the supreme court has never fully re...