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Separate reasons. he says, as trump has said, that he can't be compelled to produce documents because of executive privilege, although as you noted he's voluntarily turned over a lot of material he says isn't privileged. he argues as a former top white house official, he is immune from being compelled to come before congress, and that is a view the justice department has repeatedly expressed over the past five decades about both parties about the immunity of top executive branch officials. and he says the subpoenas are vastly overbroad, too much information including from his phone company, an...

Investigation but who sub in to look at material, so if they do stumble across anything that's privileged, the rest of the investigation isn't tainted. here the governors actually offered to have a neutral arbiter, someone from outside to come in as a special master to make the calls about what is or isn't privileged. you can imagine the outcome if you let defendants decide in every case what material the government couldn't see because it was privileged. it would bring all criminal investigations to a standstill. >> here's a question that might be unknowable, but i think if anybody has an ans...

Difficult position to thread between trying to keep the president at bay and protecting the mueller investigation. the good news for sessions is by recusing himself he was able to go off and i think was in bulgaria last week on some trip. >> wash my hands of that. >> all right. want to get heidi przybilla in here. so i'm going to give heidi the task of explaining what rudy giuliani said. >> good luck. >> president trump's lawyer, rudy giuliani, commented on the state of preparations for a potential interview between president trump and robert mueller. nbc's kelly o'donnell tweeted giuliani say...

It's her job to go through the documents and decide on whether the items are privileged or not. the parties will help her by making claims about what is and what isn't privileged, and she'll ultimately make that decision. she was on the bench for 17 years. i had many cases in front of her. she was a terrific judge. she's fair. she's very calm. she's not ideological at all, so she's a very good choice here on the merits. i also think it was smart of judge wood to pick someone not on either of party's lists, because she could be said to favor one side or the other if she did that. the other thin...

Nothing but undermining them. >> jennifer, i often come to you for definitions of legal terms on behalf of our audience, all of us lay people. special master sounds like a title in the british army. today the federal judge, kimba wood, appointed a special master to go through the stuff that was swept up in the cohen search. she happens to be a retired federal judge. talk about the definition of the term special master and your knowledge of this judge who's been appointed. we see her right there. >> well, it's not as exciting a job as special master might indicate because you're really sifting ...