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At all anyway because its only authority to gather information is for legislating, not for investigating. that's an argument trump used in the past and it hasn't been successful. the second is the executive privilege one, and that has to be worked out. that could take, you know, if it goes to the supreme court, it could take a year, two years. before we get the answer on whether president trump can exert executive wins or loses w determine what can beturned over to the committee. the executive privilege thing appears to have some legs, it could take that long. >> robert, i saw a quote from som...

People who worked for or directly with the administration. steve bannon by that point was outside doing his own stuff. the former president of the united states would -- says that executive privilegecovers their ability not to participate and not to provide information. this is what jen psaki said about that. >> the president has already concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege. and so we will respond promptly to these questions as they arise and certainly as they come up from congress. >> so she was talking about joe biden asserting executive privilege. they'll...

They are oftentimes dog-and-pony shows. we don't glean a great deal of new information. do you surmise that's going to be any different this afternoon? >> i don't think so because whitaker can either do that kinda sorta executive privilege thing or he can say ongoing investigation. so he doesn't have to volunteer anything. it's a question of whether he says something by accident that's useful or contradictory of something earlier that was said. i agree that it probably would be a better tactic not to start off at least so fiery. i've never seen somebody so quite right off the bat being so host...

Confirmed. there are some specific things they have to share with congress like if there was a disagreement about who to prosecute or some other major decision. there is not really a lot that says this has to be made public or has to be shared. the reason are looking at the executive privilege thing is we know they won't bring charges against the president. they are operating under justice department guidelines. when you look at the question of obstruction, the white house wants to shield the american public from learning details about the possibility that the president may have tried to obstr...

Are going to cut it for mueller. >> ken dilanian, you want to get in on this idea of why the white house would think that somebody like bob mueller would accept written responses, which i think chuck's still being polite here. i think a written response when you talking about donald trump if it's written by someone other than donald trump means perhaps something not entirely representing the truth. >> yeah, i don't think the white house thinks that robert mueller will accept that, nicolle. i think it's a negotiating position. the white house has some leverage here because donald trump can exer...