come into this hearing room and say that might be a matter of executive privilege so i m going to consult with the white house to see if i can exert executive privilege ahead of this. nadler wants to know ahead of time. and if they do, nadler is prepared to get into that battle. right. again, i think this is smart tactic. he sort of got away the positive and negative of giving the questions in advance so he can prepare his answers and also being able to see, you know, what executive privilege arguments they re going to make. because there will be some legitimate executive privilege claims, but not all. there s no way that they can get around really answering the substance of these questions, at least most of them. and so i think they re right to want to go in and fight back if that s going to be the answer. tim o brien, what rudy
yeah. there s that. there s that. i mean, there s we know that he s saying manafort did not fully cooperate and we re going to have filings about that. but it really is the fact that there are investigations that are criminal in nature and that are redacted in documents that have been filed before the court and we also know that he s fighting about documents and evidence from company a, which is controlled by a foreign government that is fighting him on delivering those documents. you have about 60 seconds remaining. if you switch teams and the president hired you and said, look, there s stuff in this mueller stuff i don t want out, how tough an argument is it to make executive privilege arguments? it s ridiculously tough. what i wouldthanks, i have a job. you can t hide behind an attorney, slink behind counsel to avoid scandal. the reality here is that we have the richard nixon case in which richard nixon said executive
sentenced before march. he s got to do an update on that. but we know that there are investigations even in the reporting over the last month, we ve seen new indications that of contact between paul manafort and, of course, a former russian arms dealer. yeah. there s that. there s that. i mean, there s we know that he s saying manafort did not fully cooperate and we re going to have filings about that. but it really is the fact that there are investigations that are criminal in nature and that are redacted in documents that have been filed before the court and we also know that he s fighting about documents and evidence from company a, which is controlled by a foreign government that is fighting him on delivering those documents. you have about 60 seconds remaining. if you switch teams and the president hired you and said, look, there s stuff in this mueller stuff i don t want out, how tough an argument is it to make executive privilege
to get, especially the financial information which he says is a red line? it s a somewhat legalistic answer, they will be successful wherever their oversight jurisdiction depends on getting access to information that the executive branch holds. executive executive privilege arguments come down to a balancing of legitimate interests between the different branches of government. the congress has a right to oversee the operation of the government. the executive has a right to have confidential communications, but let me tell you one thing, and i believe this with all my heart, i would bet anything on this. if there is a fight over a draft of or the final product of the mueller investigation or the fruits of that investigation in terms of investigative files, no claim of executive privilege over those materials will be successful. i think there is absolutely no question about that. they are not going to be able to keep that secret. thank you all. i appreciate it. have a good weekend.
effective there, but most importantly the democrats now have the gavels in the house. democrats will chair all of these critical committees. with that comes subpoena power. there will be subpoenas issued. however, i think it s way premature to be talking about impeachment. lets see how the special counsel comes down on the issues he s investigating, but democrats will be investigating everything that has been controversial, make no mistake about it. how successful do you think they ll be with either the subpoena or the taxes or any of the other information they want to get, especially the financial information which he says is a red line? it s a somewhat legalistic answer, they will be successful wherever their oversight jurisdiction depends on getting access to information that the executive branch holds. executive executive privilege arguments come down to a balancing of legitimate