Senator rips election-denying lawyer protecting Trump: 'You assert privilege willy-nilly'

That is something that would be law enforcement privileged inside the Justice Department, Clark claimed. No, it's not, Whitehouse shot back. I'm entitled to know if you bothered to consult a single lawyer in the Civil Rights Division before you did that.In terms of that letter, again, anything related to how that letter was formulated is law enforcement privileged, Clark repeated.That just ain't so, Whitehouse remarked. So let's just say that somebody from outside the department put you up to writing that letter and told you what they wanted in it. What privilege would that require?For his part, Clark insisted that no one outside the DOJ prompted him to write the letter to Georgia.No one contributed text to you. No one contributed ideas to you. No entity or person asked you to do this? Whitehouse asked.Again, these kinds of things would be part of privilege, Clark claimed.No, they wouldn't, the senator said. You're just wrong about that.Well, you can say that, Senator, but I disagree with you, the former DOJ official argued.I know, but you've asserted privileges before, and you've been wrong, Whitehouse noted. You assert privilege willy-nilly with no real basis for it. So, by the way, it's not even conceded that those privileges matter in Congress.Those are legitimate questions. I intend to pursue them, he concluded.