Whitehouse: Privilege. Let me refresh your recollection. Process for assertion. Import of exec priv so POTUS can have convos w/staff.
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Whitehouse: at some point he's got to assert exec priv, you can't have abeyance forever, can you? Sessions: specific requests blahblahblah
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Sessions claims he's unaware of SCOTUS saying Congress has right to inquire abt convos. Whitehouse; other way per Reagan.
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Whitehouse; Default is you have to answer our questions, while abeyance, what I'm worried abt Admin de facto rewriting Reagan EO so no end.
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Sessions: i would say we're not at that point, before assertion of exec, must know precisely. Contemptuous. Utterly contemptuous.
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Sessions: AG by talking to WHCO can agree to waive or not waive request, but really WHCO considered extension of POTUS.
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Grassley now raising Holder, still wouldn't answer, then Chair Leahy didn't direct him to do so. This was prepped, btw.
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