presidential privilege that could an certified here. there s one that s sort of a decision-making privilege that the president has, and that one s very easily overcome when there s conduct that is alleged to have been misconduct, an allegation like we have here. what s a lot more difficult and what the president can assert and is not as likely to overcome is this other type of privilege, which is a communications type privilege, and that is governing and protecting privileged information that is communicated by the executive branch to the executive branch. and since the justice department is part of the executive branch, that privilege is likely to protect the president s actual communications if he wants to assert it. so, it s something that if the president wants to assert, he will likely be able to keep that type of communication out of the public eye. and danny, under federal law, could this affect the attorney general and his decision to release specific details about the muelle