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The presidency, writ large. so the point that he's making in this sort of urging of caution or at least urging of a more thorough review of all documents to be produced, to determine whether they could assert privilege over it, is if they do hand over documents without asserting privilege, that could be sort of subject to a privilege assertion, that it would compromise not just donald trump's ability to assert privilege in this investigation, future parts of this investigation, or potentially other legal dealings or invest dpa gags, but future president's ability to assert privilege. it is an ...

He might in the future, what was surprising, it's the same thing that happened with coats, and nsa director not answering. not because there was any assertion of privilege. so we're seeing an emergence of systematic pattern of quasi executive privilege. i was talking, said previous officials have dunk this in previous 5d manages, more disturbing. the mechanism if congress wants to push back, they can't just invite witnesses to come and testify, they have to subpoena them. they are in a position to hold them in contempt if they say i'm not going to talk even though there's no privilege assertio...

Welcome back to "the ed show." republicans are still creating a lot of nonsense in their war against president obama and the fast and furious standoff. congressman darrell issa has sent a letter to the president of the united states challenging the president's assertion of executive privilege. your privilege assertion means one of two things, mr. president. either you or most of your senior advisers were involved in managing operation fast and furious and the fallout from it or you are asserting a presidential power that you know to be unjustified solely for the purpose of further obstructing ...

Would break down the points of why the president's executive privilege claim are either overboard or simply wrong and now we've got the letter and we've got some excerpts from it. >> here's one of the excerpts and it's a two page letter so i'll give you the most probably substantial part. he says "your privilege assertion means one of two things. either you or your most senior advisors were involved in managing operation fast & furious and the fallout from it including the false february 4, 2011, letter provided by the attorney general to the committee or you were asserting a presidential powe...

Letter to president obama himself demanding answers as to whether he was involved in the fast & furious investigation or just obstructing justice. kelly wright heard about this, got dressed really quick and has more. in fact, he's just about done with his report. he is done! kelly. >> actually, i'm reading the letter, brian. good morning to you, brian, anna and steve. you know, with this letter, republican congressman darrell issa who, of course, is the chairman of the house oversight committee is challenging the president of the united states on the use of executive privilege. issa has been e...