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- Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that the special counsel Robert Mueller needs to meet three conditions for the White House to waive executive privilege in Mueller's forthcoming report on obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation.
- Trump's team will waive privilege if it has a chance to review the report before it is released; if it believes that — even if it disagrees with Mueller's findings — the report is fair; and if it gets the opportunity to release a rebuttal report at the same time as Mueller's.
- Mueller appears to have acknowledged that executive privilege could complicate matters in the investigation.
- But legal scholars say that if Trump's team continues tangling with the special counsel over the issue of privilege, it will be an uphill climb for the White House.
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Rudy Giuliani laid out three conditions on Tuesday that he said the special counsel Robert Mueller needs to meet for the White House to waive executive privilege over information he's gathered in the Russia probe.
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