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The only way would be to subpoena don junior to come back and then to override any claim of privilege. and then if he refuses to testify, to hold him in contempt or take him to court. that seems unlikely. if he tries to make the same privilege claim with bob mueller in the grand jury, he will find the opposing side much less accommodating and mueller won't have any trouble taking this to a court to find out whether the privilege claim is valid. getting an order to compel him to testify and holding him in contempt if he refuses. >> very interesting. thank you very much. nick and joan, stay with...

Obstruction or misdeeds. so i don't think the privilege claim would survive at all. but i'm not surprised, they tell me that -- he is a trained investigator, this is what he does, what the fbi does. but at the same time all you had to do was watch the campaign. and i think probably watching a few clips of the last year and a half before this meeting took place he was well grounded in his belief that the things that came out of the then president-elect's mouth probably could not be trusted. and that he may need to do something to verify his account of that meeting. >> julian selitzer, michael m...

Scandal growing bigger by the day. the attorney general, eric holder, is now facing a vote by the entire house of representatives on a resolution that would hold him in contempt of congress, and the white house exerting executive pressure over documents requested by congress. but you wouldn't know it from tuning into the mainstream media. joining us now, our news watch panel, judith miller, kirsten powers is a columnist for the daily beast. both are fox news contributors. and now everybody's talking about this story because of the privilege claim and because of the contempt vote. but, judith, ...

By attorney/client privilege. democrats certainly dispute that idea. but it appears as long as republican lawmakers allow the privilege claim, the president's son won't have to provide more details to congress. chris and alisyn. >> let's bring in john avlon and jeffrey toobin. jeffrey toobin, the verdict? >> well, i mean, some legal concepts are are disputable and some are not. and this is not disputable. the attorney/client privilege only applies to conversations between a lawyer and a client. if anyone else is present, there is no client. the fact that donald trump and his father were both p...

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