Your Veep reference initiated a thought.

Is George Papadopoulus a real life Jonah Ryan?

She's have a discussion with herself.

Another day, more hyperbole, little to see, nothing ever comes of their excitement. The new "Cold War" is laughable to everyone but the loons.

Meh, the economy is rolling and in another year the 2020 campaign will start. Idiots like Kay and the Canucks will get all excited several more times over the next 12 months only to see their hopes dashed. The Dem's will run Opie, Sanders or Harris, all losers. All will run on an SJW platform, which no one but the idiot left care about. The Republicans are the key to getting rid of Trump. Several solid candidates are lining up already. Till then, Trump is going nowhere until January 2021.

Idiots like Kay and the Canucks

Looks like something hit close to home and you're forced to defend Trump again...

You guys threw 18 candidates against him last time and couldn't come up with one solid one. Now several are lining up? Trump is the key to getting rid of Trump. Get your head out of the sand. It's already happening.

Must be his day job.

Except he agreed to an interview instead of a Grand Jury appearance.

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"Go yell at an M&M"

Invoking executive privilege under almost any circumstances is exactly what we should expect from the Executive branch. That's been consistent from George Washington through Barak Obama.

(I'm not saying there's nothing to hide -- how do I know? -- just that your argument isn't very compelling.)

I heard on NPR today that the concept and term was first coined by the Eisenhower administration, who wanted to be freer from scrutiny by the courts or Congress. I haven't verified that with Google-fu yet. They did say it's been used by every administration since, though.

An "expert" also said that Bannon's use of the concept to cover the time of the transition is fairly shaky since Obama was the chief executive during that time, and it'd be difficult to argue that Trump's executive privilege had started.

I was relieved to hear that the privilege does not extend to Mueller's investigation or grand jury testimony. Bannon will be compelled to tell the truth in those situations.

I believe he agreed to be interviewed by Muller after I wrote about the Grand Jury. If not i had not yet seen that he agreed to do that.