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So you know there's a zone for true executive decision making. what donald trump was doing was not acting as the president of the united states, he was trying to protect his job. he didn't care about the consequences for the country, there's no privilege claim here that will be sustained by any court. >> the theoretical version of it that donald trump comes up with the idea of the committee asking the white house counsel of the secrets of foreign policy. that remains impossible. no white house counsel in history has ever, ever been asked the secrets of foreign policy by a committee. no committ...

Something like that , they wente to jaily when we had this exact same thing happen in public. ten years ago, a federal judge ruled that holder's privilege claim was not j legitimate and e was still nevereg arrested. but the rules have changed. why is that ? no one in corporate media ever ask that question. instead, they celebrated a 70 yearldos arrest old man in an airport. it made their day. >> he was indicted and whente you're indicted, you're arrested. peter navarro was so far out of bounds. it's so indefensible. this prosecution is really about punishing navarro based on his blatant disres...

Transcripts from the january six committee from the 1000-plus witnesses that have appeared before the committee and appeared to give testimony. all of a sudden, what have we learned? we learned that bill barr has apparently agreed to talk to the committee and now we know that rudy giuliani has testified to the committee for nine hours. is there a cause and effect in play here? there may be. and one thing that surprises me most about rudy giuliani testifying is that he did it at all. i fully expected that he would continue to offer privileges, whether legitimate or otherwise, but he might have ...

Contempt charges for former trump advisors dan scavino and navaro. give us the latest. >> if you talk to committee members, both were asked to hand over documents related to the january 6 investigation. they were asked to sit for depositions. both rejected those invitations from the select committee. both claiming that they were protected und prot protected under executive privilege. the committee believe the current white house are the ones to decide whether or not there is a privilege claim. they suspended all claims as it relates to the investigation. therefore, they should comply. this vot...

But i'm going to emily and then nick on this. they say, emily, in the opinion here, which was written here, i want to say, yeah, chief justice writing it. the privilege claim would not succeed even under the nixon and select committee tests. even if donald trump were the incumbent, if he were still president, they agree with the lower courts that it said his claims were so weak, he would not be able to hold back this evidence. your response or analysis of that? >> well, i think the nixon history is important here, because the reason we have this law from 1978 about the public owning presidenti...