Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190117:01:09:00
Counterparts. we've been consulting with the lawyers, also. what is the best case, what arguments might the white house make? it looks to me on the surface that they don't have much of an executive privilege case to make. that privilege really normally applies when the president is seeking advice from his counselors and there's a policy interest in making sure that he has the free and unfettered opinion of those. that's not the case when he's speaking to a foreign leader and is speaking to that foreign leader in private. i don't think the prif ledge applies but we want to be on the strongest p...