as they say, god rest his soul and may others may his memory be a blessing to us all. thank you, brother. i love you. love you. nice tribute to him as well. and to your dad as well. thank you. i love you, as well. this is don lemon tonight. i ve got a lot to talk about, a lot, a lot, a lot. but here s the biggest thing that s on my mind right now. when i say when people say thou doth protest too much. what is he trying to hide? why is the former president of the united states so determined to keep january 6th, that committee from finding out what he and his allies were doing before and during the insurrection at capitol hill? why, oh why, oh why? our breaking news. the white house slapping down his claims of executive privilege saying, and i quote, former president trump abused the office of the presidency and attempted to subvert a peaceful transfer of power. the former president s actions
you can use a privilege ever to obstruct justice. and we wouldn t be in a position to prove it, had we not had a series of letters between grafts from the president to the attorney general to the assistant attorney general. and then a week later, we have mr. trump saying on the air, oh, it was not about that anyhow. he just wanted to get rid of the russia investigation, which is a theme we re talking about this evening again, because he s trying to intimidate the senate to back off the investigation. susan, what do you make of adam schiff s assertion that if trump hadn t asked sessions to hinder the russia investigation, sessions would just say so. is that a fair assumption? it s not entirely clear. it s possible sessions is asserting a broad executive privilege saying, look, i m not going to talk about my communications with the president, in a general sense. he has released a statement through the department of justice that he referred to again tonight, saying that the presiden
congressmen. two easy wins now in doubt because there s not enough time. good job, jeff. the president said on twitter. he s referring to chris collins of new york indicted on insider trading charges and duncan hunter of california accused of stealing $250,000 from campaign funds. it s an extraordinary statement. not only for the president to weigh in on specific cases. but also, suggesting that justice department should overlook criminal allegations for political reasons. all this as a confrontation is looming over publicly releasing the report. has nothing to do with collusion. reporter: rudy giuliani, the face of the president s legal team, saying they re likely to cite executive privilege saying i m sure we will try to block the release of the report. the president presumably to go golfing for a third straight day and then changing course and going back inside. on a day traditionally seen as a