"Lawyers representing those who have been charged have raised with us the question of Parliamentary privilege, " he said.

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It may be why -- as I pointed out in response to another question, given the history of assertions of privilege of this kind in the last 30 years, this President is asserting it for the first time at the latest point of any history in those -- at the latest point in his term of any President in those past 30 years.

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