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>> yeah. >> the privilege exists and it has since george washington, and it should. on this i'm very sympathetic to the trump white house, having been a white house official. presidents have got to have a right to communicate and deliberate in private. but it's a qualified privilege. it's only the president's to assert. it does not belong to corey lewandowski who has never worked a day in the white house, the former campaign manager for president trump. it doesn't belong to ms. hicks or mr. bannon, who had successfully gotten out of testifying. the problem is the republican congress is unlikel...

It should. on this i'm very sympathetic to the trump white house, having been a white house official. presidents have got to have a right to communicate and to deliberate in private. but it's a qualified privilege. it's only the president's to assert. it does not belong to corey lewandowski who has never worked a day in the white house, the former campaign manager for president trump. it doesn't belong to ms. hicks or to mr. bannon, who apparently tried to get out -- had successfully gotten out of testifying. the problem is the republican congress is unlikely to pursue this against a republica...

House investigators up on capitol hill. he's not going to have that protection when he talks to robert mueller's team. but i do wonder, he has invoked executive privilege when he's talking to house investigators when it comes to his time on the transition, not just his time in the white house. does he have that protection under executive privilege? >> no, and actually, of course it's the president who has to assert the executive privilege, it's not bannon's to assert. the president has to tell bannon, i direct you not to answer the questions because i'm asserting executive privilege here. >> i...

Now that he's outside, it doesn't change the status of the conversations while he was inside. leland: got it. >> because the president's to assert. unless he had a total change of heart and became an enemy and sought to hurt the president, i don't think it matters at all for the investigation. leland: all right. bob driscoll, stand by for a second. this is from the president's twitter feed. it's raining today, sometimes the president plays golf on saturdays. he's not golfing, but tweeting, if a new health care bill is not approved quickly, bailouts for insurance companies and for congress as w...

>> yesterday attorney general sessions, in deliberative process, not necessarily well known to the public, a number of privileges, attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, deliberative process privilege, this is not anything new, not something the team concocted prior to these hearings. eric holder, and the obama administration, the deliberative process privilege on many occasions, one was when president obama appointed richard corker to director of the financial protection bureau, questionable recess appointment. >> we can't get into all the stuff from the past but why would the attorn...