deposition from the president? and what happens if he resists? the president can be deposed in this case, and that s what the new york appellate court was saying. they were saying that just like president clinton had to stand to a sexual harassment suit by paula jones, same can happen to trump. he has to have to defend himself in this case, so he can be deposed and brought to court. he is not above the legal process in this civil case. and so, what the court of appeals in the new york district has said is that the president does not have a state protection. he is actually not immune from civil suit. and so, he can have to come to court just like other litigants in civil cases. danny, one former federal prosecutor told politico that the signs point towards mueller wrapping up, that we re probably a few weeks away from a final report, but, quote, certainly a fairly complete draft is already being circulated inside the mueller team. do you see mueller finishing his investigation witho
this is someone who s been calling it a witch hunt from day one, someone who has not treated this as something that was going to exonerate him. if it is something that does exonerate him, at the end it will end up looking like very bad strategy to have not embraced it in the first place. so, i think perhaps he didn t see around the corner that lindsey graham would be able to help him by blocking this in the senate or that mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, ultimately would be able to block it for him in the senate, but now he s in the position of simply saying it s okay with him that house republicans essentially went against him and said that the mueller report should be made public. so, graham and mcconnell just shielding him for good measure. julia, what was the reaction from fellow senate republicans? yeah, i think a lot of senate republicans would fall in line with this move. you know, i don t think president trump obviously wants this report to be made public. and i
presidential privilege that could an certified here. there s one that s sort of a decision-making privilege that the president has, and that one s very easily overcome when there s conduct that is alleged to have been misconduct, an allegation like we have here. what s a lot more difficult and what the president can assert and is not as likely to overcome is this other type of privilege, which is a communications type privilege, and that is governing and protecting privileged information that is communicated by the executive branch to the executive branch. and since the justice department is part of the executive branch, that privilege is likely to protect the president s actual communications if he wants to assert it. so, it s something that if the president wants to assert, he will likely be able to keep that type of communication out of the public eye. and danny, under federal law, could this affect the attorney general and his decision to release specific details about the muelle
on the wrist, but i don t think the republican party is really going to change in that they re going to slam president trump more for this. i don t think it s going to make much of a difference. since we re on senator graham, jonathan, this week the house almost unanimously passed the bill urging public closure of the mueller report. four members voted present. but then senator lindsey graham blocked the senate from even taking it up, even though the president tweeted that all republicans should vote for transparency. so, jonathan, why did senator graham do this? well, i think maybe we re looking at it backward here a little bit. okay. i think the president was willing to tweet that all the republicans should vote for transparency because he knew that when it came to senate that this was not going to go forward. so, why not tweet that it was perfectly fine with him that the house republicans all said that the mueller report should be made public. i mean, this is a president who
release the report. but the real question is president trump s unilateral invocation of this executive privilege. and this privilege dates all the way back to marbury v. madison, where chief justice marshall suggested that we really can t allow an invasion into the inner workings of the president and his cabinet. if you think about presidential privilege that way, it s much more cabinet, it s much more limited. so it s interesting to see where a court will go. the only real thing we know about executive privilege from the supreme court is that it exists. we don t really know the contours and extent of that privilege. it s vague. ashleigh, an appeals court in new york ruled that trump must answer civil charges filed by summer zervos, who accused the president of sexual misconduct. the editorial board at the new york times says, the legal travails of president clinton may soon haunt president trump. ashleigh, can we expect a