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Client privilege information, much less proven that there would be that kind of information. when he has said is that he has executive privilege information. and that argument falls apart on a number of thoughts, including the fact that he is not a privilege holder. joe biden is. and if he had wanted to contest, that the time for doing that would be in the spring. when the national archives, said, hey we are in a turnover these materials to the fbi for their review. donald trump knows a little bit executive privilege. he did exactly that with the january six committee. ashley, mentioned alex, ...

Redact it. but he indicated that he wants to be transparent but he also said that he will likely take that report that he receives from mueller and distribute two reports. >> neil: so john, in that case, the white house will get a chance to eye this first. is that right? >> the white house i think has an absolute right to eye it because executive privilege is not some way of hiding things. it's a legitimate privilege when it applies. the privilege holder, being the presidency, not the president -- >> neil: can you explain that? the president gets it or his team gets it. steer me through that. ...

We know that cohen made and had been seized, there has to be more than one. we would imagine there is more than one with now president trump, no? >> that's the assumption. but if we take a step back and as you reported what happened in this case was cohen's office gets raided. documents are seized, including tapes. the special master jones reviewed them and determines which are privileged and which are not. the ones which are privileged go back to the privilege holder which was president trump in this case. it doesn't go to the fbi. unless there is a contest over it. then according to the repo...

Through all of the documents seized and to determine which if any of the documents were protected by attorney/client privilege, some of them a small number have been. how does that all play in here in terms of what michael cohen could actually say to investigators and are there things he could not say because they would be protected by that privilege? >> well, right, so if the only privilege holder, the president, can wave attorney/client privilege, but if he was engaging in some sort of crime, then that would nullify that agreement. >> that's an important point, that attorney/client privilege...

Attorney or not. to me is there anything that annty has now said that would indicate that he waived attorney client privilege? >> even as a lawyer i'm confused, too. he said some conflicting things. so i don't know if that is a miscommunication or someone is not telling the truth or what high pressure he is saying look, i paid him i think $10. i thought his legal advice. that is not what determines if something is attorney client pri lenl. you can't just say it no matter what you tell an attorney is privledges. that puts the cart before the hours and means that you, the privilege holder, gets ...