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For allegedly defrauding trump supporters. remember, trump let him off the hook and pardoned him. so, even if executive privilege did apply here -- and it should not, neither with the others and certainly not with bannon -- because that protection is about a president and key advisers so they can have conversations without fear of exposure. but in 2018, trump said of bannon, steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. now, that was after they had a falling out, but that's irrelevant. if bannon had nothing to do with the presidency according to former president trump, how could the...

The presidency according to former president trump, how could the privilege argument ever hold up even if privilege existed? so, with privilege waived by biden will the committee follow through on holding bannon in contempt. but i suggest a different question. forget congress. will any of what has, is and will likely come out about trump's savaging the department of justice and its officials move from congress to the doj itself, meaning will attorney general merrick garland take action? it seems trump thinks that there is a chance because he has been swooning over biden's ag lately. >> he's a ...

He turns around and makes a different privilege argument that these gentlemen working with rudy giuliani may be entitled to a kind of attorney-client privilege or a work product privilege. different privileges that apply when an attorney arguably in this case, rudy giuliani, is providing legal advice and services. but he has to be providing legal advice and services for privileges to apply. the attorney-client privilege doesn't automatically apply because i'm a lawyer and we happen to be talking about something legal right now. >> what is the end game here, when you have giuliani saying basica...

Let me put up on the screen all of the different individuals who have been stonewalling the congress in this investigation. why withhold the evidence? forget "stonewall." >> because it doesn't affect this case. it affects the office of the presidency of the united states. >> okay. that's an answer. that is the privilege argument. and that does not explain hiding this evidence from so many different people, let alone ambassador sondland today, who, and you don't need me to tell you this but to be as logical as possible, who is obviously not the president. so you don't have that presidential pri...

Hold some hearings and talk about the substance of the investigation, not this process talk. it's june already. and, you know, the intelligence committee hasn't held any serious hearings, oversight has held a couple. the michael cohen hearing was a serious, important hearing. the judiciary committee hasn't held any significant hearings about investigating the president. do that, don't talk about this. >> and you can find people that has no privilege argument. corey lewandowski has no argument for privilege. he wouldn't be able to refuse a subpoena. >> absolutely. >> get to work. >> a cynic mig...