count. the other aspect of this, of course, is that the communications he had to have had to be with people under the nature of the executive. it can t just be because he s the president, everything is covereded under the privilege. we saw this, of course, in the trump tower meeting, donald trump junior. he was trying to go into cya mode, perhaps, for his son. that may be part of a inquiry of a court who says the balancing test is the come telling candor we need for a president against the public s right to know. when the nixon case came up, of course, it s what a criminal court wanted to look at for privilege. they said in a criminal context the president can t willy-nilly assert the privilege and hope to avoid having justice. this is congress asking for it, though. it s not really a settled principle of law at this point, but ultimately if the privilege is the folkram, it has to deal with the executive branch, itself, with people he would enjoy the privilege with. that might not be t
criticized the first responders at the parkland florida high school shooting after reports surfaced that as many as four deputies took cover instead of pursuing the shooters. the shooter. that we performed was, frankly, disgusting. they were listening to what was going on. you don t know until you re tested, but i really believe i would run in there even if i didn t have a weapon. i think most of the people in this room would have done that too. but the way they performed was really a disgrace. laura: joining us now to react to the latest on the shooting as white house deputy press secretary hogan gidley. great to have you in tonight. you had a long day today, thank you for coming. absolutely. laura: i want to get into the president s reaction. i wanted reaction to what we uncovered tonight about the sheriff israel, who quite a piece of work. now we find out that they are sending over these system-wide email saying, support the sheriff, support the sheriff. kind of a cya mo
criticized the first responders at the parkland florida high school shooting after reports surfaced that as many as four deputies took cover instead of pursuing the shooters. the shooter. that we performed was, frankly, disgusting. they were listening to what was going on. you don t know until you re tested, but i really believe i would run in there even if i didn t have a weapon. i think most of the people in this room would have done that too. but the way they performed was really a disgrace. laura: joining us now to react to the latest on the shooting as white house deputy press secretary hogan gidley. great to have you in tonight. you had a long day today, thank you for coming. absolutely. laura: i want to get into the president s reaction. i wanted reaction to what we uncovered tonight about the sheriff israel, who quite a piece of work. now we find out that they are sending over these system-wide email saying, support the sheriff, support the sheriff. kind of a cya mo
sufficiently and say sir, no offense but this interaction one on one could be perceived as inappropriate. the appearance of this could be inappropriate so for your sake and mine, i suggest either we bring someone in or he could have said that but instead, he is the kind of guy who runs to the car and starts packing out a memo to the file. i ve been in washington a long time. i m sorry, those are the kind of people who are always in cya mode. they are trying to instead of being a straight shooter i understand it s their constitutional authority to direct investigations but i don t feel right about this. i m happy to tender my