determine whether any of them t are privileged.he they are also taking the position that nothing is privileged because everybody was on notice, that this was the possession of the government, the property of the government, not the property of individuals. but that violates core notions of civil liberties. people have reasonable expectations of privacy. they don t expect that their emails to their lawyer for the emails to the future president of the united states, the president-elect would be looked into without a subpoena or a search warrant. and it was so easy for mueller to go and get a search warrant. you used to be a judge, you know you just go to a judge and make any kind of plausible presentation and you get your search warrant. why not do it? he s been conducting a very sloppy investigation. when you re going after the president who can t afford to be sloppy because you know that they re going to be people taking advantage of every mistake you make and he has made too many. j
jeanine: welcome back to hannity. joining us now with reaction to the latest controversy swirling around robert mueller s team is the author of the book trumped up, how criminalization of political differences in dangerous democracy, alan dershowitz. it s good to have you here tonight. you wrote a fascinating article saying that trump doesn t need to fire mueller and you say that there are certain tactics that can be used that are almost better than actually firing him, talk to us. i learned about this from the great coach of the boston celtics who told me one day when we were sitting at a celtics game that whenever he used to scream at an official in yellow the official he would always get the next call in his favor. then i heard the same thing from baseball player who said when he protested a ball or a strike he would get the next call. i think that s the tactic that is being used here. you continuously attack mueller. you bring up every possible issue whether it be conflict
team.re i m not sure that everybody understands how wrong this is. you re going to tell us the legal aspect, but this is not government property. no. jeanine: this includes information that has to do with national security, attorney client. there is a statute in fact that controls how you access this s information. tell the viewers. for several reasons, these are private documents. first and foremost, the transition team is organized as a private nonprofit. and the chief records officer od the united states sent a n lettr to the gsa and all other agencies saying, remember, these are private documents. they are nongovernment employees, therefore nongovernment property.. jeanine: and he sent that right before the transition team, as soon as they got in, to remind everyone that the rules still apply. so that means legally thatt mueller just can t walk into the gsa and hand over these records from a custodian. the gsa doesn t own the records. the trump transition team does
i m not sure that everybody understands how wrong this is. if you re going to tell us the legal aspect, but this is not government property. no. jeanine: this includes information that has to do with national security, attorney client. there a statute in fact that controls how you access this information. tell the viewers. for several reasons these are private documents. first and foremost the transition team is organized as a private nonprofit. and the chief records officer of the united states sent a letter to the gsa and all other agencies saying remember these are private documents. they are nongovernment employees, therefore nongovernment property. jeanine: and he said that right before the transition team, as soon as they got in, to remind everyone that the rules still apply. so that means legally that mueller just can t walk into the gsa and hand over these records from a custodian. the gsa doesn t own the records.
jeanine: welcome back to hannity. jeanine: welcome back to hannity. joining us now with reaction to the latest controversy swirling around robert mueller s team is the author of the book trumped up: how criminalization of endangers democracy, alan dershowitz. it s good to have you here tonight. thank you. jeanine: you wrote a fascinating article saying that trump doesn t need to fire mueller and you say that there are certain tactics that can be used that are almost better than actually firing him, talk to us. i learned about this from the great coach of the boston celtics who told me one day when we were sitting at aro celtics game that whenever he used to scream at an official and yell at the official he would always get the next callba in his favor.. then i heard the same thing from baseball player who said when he protested a ball or a strike he would get the next call. i think that s the tactic that is being used here. you continuously attack mueller. you bring u