volunteering information so we can understand what in the world happened down in that white house. so why do you think, nick, he s not? the idea he could have such access and give firsthand accounts of trump s efforts to seize the power of the doj as we heard from one hearing to corrupt it. the idea of the scheme to try to oust the acting attorney general but i suspect to the extent that cipollone is trying to carve out certain areas he doesn t have to talk about, i m assuming privilege will be a part of this and obviously, he can bend the ear of the president. will that be enough you think to overcome the obligation john is speaking about and is it valid? not at all. i mean, look, there is no attorney client privilege for starters. the white house counsel does not represent the president of the united states personally. he s not his personal lawyer. so there is no personal attorney client privilege. the only question is whether or not there is any valid executive privile
coming in kind of getting to what was going on behind the scenes, general, i want to ask you about. a european intelligence says there were hints that russian security services might have had notice of the rebellion this weekend and key to this, of what we were talking about off the top, might have wanted it to succeed. i m kind of curious, when you hear that what putin should do now? does another military shake-up amongst the ranks under putin seem like that could be in the offing right now? well, i don t think he wants to do this immediately because it will do what prigozhin had recommended be done which was to fire the minister and fire the chief of the general staff. so i don t think he wants to do this in the short term because it would seem to respond to what prigozhin was was counseling, but look, no. he s a student history. he knows that history is unkind to russian leaders who lose wars. he s got to try to figure out