Longtime personal lawyer michael d. Cohen about a moscow real estate deal, whether the president knew of any attempt by mr. Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner to set up a back channel with russia during the transition and any contacts he had with roger stone jr. , a longtime adviser who claimed to have inside information about democratic email hackings and what happened during mr. Trumps 20 is a trip to moscow for the Miss Universe panel . Again, thats the reporting from the New York Times. Breaking tonight is michael zeldin, john dean and general Michael Hayden. What do you make of i mean, interesting that these were recently provided to President Trumps lawyers, this list of questions. Right. They have now leaked out to the New York Times. Tied to our earlier conversation, i talked about our being a fractured society, kind inform a posttruth world. Weve got issues of our own and now this just illustrates, anderson, you have a foreign adversary coming in over the top, very skillfully in te
President s thinking and motivation behind some of his most combative twitter posts and examine his relationships with his family and closest advisers. They deal chiefly with the president s highprofile firings of the fbi director and his First National security adviser and his treatment of attorney general Jeff Sessions and a 2016 trump tower meeting between Campaign Officials and russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. They also touch on the president s businesses. Any discussions with his longtime personal lawyer michael d. Cohen about a moscow real estate deal, whether the president knew of any attempt by mr. Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner to set up a back channel with russia during the transition and any contacts he had with roger stone jr. , alongtime adviser who claimed to mail hackings and what happened during mr. Trumps 20 is a trip to moscow for the Miss Universe panel . Again, thats the reporting from the New York Times. Breaking tonight is michael zeldin, john dean and ge
relate to policy matters, so i don t know that an assertion of executive privilege would be availing in this case which would lead his lawyers to conclude that they are most likely not going to succeed in an effort to resist this interview, and, therefore, they really have to buckle down and start answering. i d be interested to hear what professor derby ritz has to say. professor dershowitz, on that answer and if you were a part of the president s legal team, would you form a, you know, get all the lawyers in there, form a team, get some other people in there and just go through not only all these questions but also any subquestions that you can think of based on these questions, whether it takes days and days to do that just to kind of run through the president through everything? i assume they are doing that already. i think they were not taken by surprise by some of these questions. i just want to disagree a little bit possibly with my previous speaker about executive privilege
these questions point to conversations that pre-date the president s inauguration, so those topics are not covered by executive privilege per se, i think, and then secondly with respect to post-inauguration executive privilege as i read it involves the deliberative advice that subordinates to the president give on policy matters. these questions don t seem to relate to policy matters, so i don t know that an assertion of executive privilege would be availing in this case which would lead his lawyers to conclude that they are most likely not going to succeed in an effort to resist this interview, and, therefore, they really have to buckle down and start answering. i d be interested to hear what professor derby ritz has to say. professor dershowitz, on that answer and if you were a part of the president s legal team, would you form a, you know, get all the lawyers in there, form a team, get some other people in there and just go through not only all these questions but also any subques