the committee has called him, quote, uniquely positioned to testify. the understatement of the year. just think of what he knows. think of how many times you out there heard his name from other witnesses during the hearings. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. on his phone, i remember pat saying to him, something to the effect of, the riders got to the capitol mark, we need to see the president now. and mark looked up and said, he doesn t want to do anything, pat. and pat said something to the effect of, and very clearly, had said this to mark, something to the effect of, mark, something needs to be done or people is going to die and the blood is going to be on your hands. this is out of control. i m going down there. pat cipollone weighed in at one point. that letter that this guy wants to send, that s a murder/suicide pact.
why do you think he is not? he could have such access and give first-hand accounts of the effort to seize power of the doj to try uncorrupted in the scheme to oust the acting attorney general. i suspect to the extent that pat cipollone is trying to carve out certain areas, i assume privileges part of this. will that be enough to overcome the obligation that he is speaking about? not at all. there is no attorney client privilege. the white house counsel does not represent the president of the united states personally. he is not the personal lawyer. there is no personal attorney client privilege. the only question is whether or not there is valued executive privilege. there may be some instances where donald trump came to him and discussed certain things in a normal fashion, asking whether or not honest certain activity was problematic. it doesn t sound that way, based on hutchinson s testimony. it seems to me what pat cipollone was doing was putting fires out all over the
Thanks for joining us. Its 12 00 p. M. Eastern. Im in for andrea mitchell. Donald trump is back in court right now for day 15 of his hush money election interference trial. Over the past hour, theres been a lot of testimony about Phone Records of Key Players Like david pecker and Michael Cohen. Before that, former Trump White House aide Madeleine Westerhout finished her time on the stand, testifying about everything from how close she worked with trump early in his presidency, including how trump reacted, she says he was very upset, when Stormy Daniels story became public. Westerhout testified about a key white house meeting in 2017 between donald trump and his former fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen. Cohen himself, a witness for the prosecution, is expected to take the stand on monday. His testimony could last several days. This after Stormy Daniels sparred with Donald Trumps attorney yesterday during the crossexamination after being accused of profiting off her encounter with donald tr
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