privilege, i think as we talk about what these conversations could be between pat cipollone s attorneys and the doj, that grand jury, i should say, what is covered by executive privilege? just remind us here. what conversations could potentially be covered. what we know is that pat cipollone and others have claimed executive privilege to allow them basically to avoid answering questions about conver conversations, private conversations they claim they had with donald trump leading up to and including on january 6. we know with respect to the january 6 committee that pat cipollone, although he appeared before that committee, that he used executive privilege oftentimes to avoid answering specific questions. and this is going to test, quite frankly, whether that privilege holds now that we know that there is a grand jury, a criminal investigation taking place with respect to donald trump. these conversations that pat cipollone s attorneys are having with the doj presumably des
what were those conversations? reporter: there is no question that taiwan s government was excited to welcome the u.s. speaker of the house. as for the rest of taiwan, the feelings were likely mixed. some thinking that her visit is beneficial while others are worried that it might escalate tensions. one example of that was the hundreds of people who gathered outside of her hotel last night. cnn s team on the ground said that it was about equal between supporters and protestors and while pelosi made it clear today that china will not stand in the way of people coming to taiwan in the short term, it is hard to, a that the speaker s visit hasn t added to the already tense situation that exists. point in case, within about 30 minutes of the speaker landing on the island, china announced live fire military exercises surrounding taiwan that could already be under way. the defense ministry has condemned those drills saying that they amount to maritime and aerial blockade.
states? i am flabbergasted that there isn t the media, paparazzi chasing barack obama and asking him, wittingly or unwittingly, did he know about this, and if he didn t, what kind of an administration was he running? this was his department of justice.on clapper worked for him. brennan worked for him. susan rice worked for him. we saw the unmasking, record number of unmasking of individuals, citizens in the last year of the obama administration. wenm hear nothing about barack obama, the obama administration. harry truman used to say the buck stops here but, apparently, that s not the case in the obama administration. what accounts for this? well, the book needs to be written and it hasn t been so there isit hasn t been something that needs to be done in terms of investigative reporting to find out, well, what was the obama administration doing in light of what they knew was going on which was this russian interference with our campaigns. but we have to note that the