privilege. and executive privilege is a buzz word that gets misused a lot. you can speak as much legal as you want to when you fight over executive privilege but basically for us regular folks, for understanding that being the big fight they are expecting, it basically boils down to whether or not the president and the white house have to hand stuff over, whether a president has to potentially testify to a special counsel like robert mueller or prosecutors or to congress. do you have to hand over material, do you have to respond to subpoenas that or testify? and we tend to think of the relevant history around that question as being all tied up in watergate, right? richard nixon's efforts to resist the courts when they were demanding he hand over the white house tapes. and it's true, watergate is an important president here. some of the other more recent