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>> emails and this private server, what gives here? >> it turns out it was really meadows so the committee has gone for the private accounts as well, and, you know, meadows has attempted to claim privilege, even as he turned over a lot of this stuff, he turned over a privilege log. these are the documents i'm not going to turn over because they are privileged. in a privilege log it shows the email, who it was sent to, who was cc'd, what was the subject line of the email is and when it was sent. so guess what, there are more than 200, nearly 300 people cooperating already with the committee. so...

Allies for the past couple of years, about mueller being able to do his job without interference, what is that worth if mueller's findings can essentially be edited by the white house? >> well, it's not worth much, if that's the case. and i think, first of all, we've got to understand that executive privilege is not going to reach back to the campaign and protect events that occurred during the campaign. it's not going to reach the transition, either. it will only really relate to potentially activities that occurred after he became president. so that's one limiting factor. to do -- to invoke ...

Privilege log, where they're explaining what they're excluding and why they're seeking to exclude it. and executive privilege breaks down to a number of areas. is it communications? is it attorney/client privilege? is it a document that they feel they can't release? all of that will have to be detailed. anderson, this is really no surprise. this is kind of standard procedure for something, a document this hot or anything that's going to go to the congress. so i really am not surprised to learn this at all. >> i'll go to laura. one of the things that's explaining, when one wants a president to ...

Memoir. are you concerned you are asking for documents that could interfere with the mueller investigation? >> really, we're not about interfering with the mueller investigation. what we're about is doing proper oversight and transparency. it's been consistent there. we have been consistent for nine months. in doing that, it's critically important that we get the documents. i can tell you, most of the documents, if there's a legitimate reason on why they shouldn't give it, give us a privilege log and say this is the reason why we're withholding it. the fact is is we're operating in a vacuum. t...

What does that expose him to? >> well look, first of all, we've got to unpack this a little bit because first of all if the reporting is that there is a recording and if that recording, remember, there was a special master, they put a judge in the mix here, that's what was asked for when they seized stuff from michael cohen's office, if there is a what's called a privilege log, it would list every entry of something taken that they claim was privileged, the special master would then rule yes, it can come in and the government can see it or no, the government can't. we don't know necessarily th...