This is the Kaidu Daily Podcast for Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019.

I'm Kila Brown.

Executive privilege is made up.

It's neither protected nor prohibited by the Constitution, and the sweeping

assertions of executive privilege made by the Trump White House are challenging

even the generous executive privilege protections handed out by courts.

Cato Vice President Gene Healy discusses how the Trump administration is using executive

privilege and where such protections might be warranted.

It's not new for presidents to fight Congress over access to

to information. You know, you have these sorts of disputes

starting in the George Washington administration where

president sometimes dig in their heels on particular requests for

information. What is new is not just the claim with regard to the Mueller report, but the announcement of a blanket

policy of massive resistance to all congressional demands for information.

But that's pretty much what President Trump did at the end of April when he announced that we're fighting all the subpoenas.

And since then, he's... that we're fighting all the subpoenas.

And since then, he's blocked or threatened to block

testimony from a host of current and

former officials, Attorney General Bill Barr,

Special Counselor Robert Mueller, Don McGann,

the former White House Counsel, Stephen Miller,

top presidential aid, and on and on.

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