Whaddya talkin' about?!! After 2.5 years of a complete, thorough, unimpeded, investigation by the Democrats, by a rabid bunch of partisan Democrat 'investigators', which turned up not a scintilla of evidence, the Dems simply decided to rename the object of the investigation from 'Russian collusion', to 'obstruction' under the guise not of the Mueller investigation, but under the Jerry Nadler, 'preimpeachment investigation. But the object is exactly the same. Cripple Trump. But even if Nadler were 100% successful in getting impeachment passed through his committee, which is doubtful, it has zero chance of getting passed in the senate. As in zip, nil, nada!
So for once the WH finally said 'enough!' And invoked executive privilege.
Executive privilege extends to ALL private conversations with the president. Regardless of who that person is. And the president invoked it regarding conversations with Lewandowski. BFD! He has every right to do so.
You dems have a losing agenda for 2020. Resist, obstruct, Trump bad.
Move on, and address issues people really care about, or prepare to suffer massive defeats at the polls in 2020.
MAGA! KAG! 2020!

You don't know dick s**t, baby.

Donald Trump is an American citizen and like all American citizens he has the constitutional and legal right to defend himself against any and all accusations and allegations by wh**ever legal means necessary.

Congressional Subpoena Power and Executive Privilege: The Coming Showdown Between the Branches

The following is an overview of congressional requests for executive branch information and executive privilege assertions in response; it does not cover, for example, requests by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the law and dynamics of which are quite different. Lawfare has published a number of articles that address the issue of executive privilege generally. In June of 2017, John Bies offered a primer on the subject. David Kris has written about disclosures to Congress in the context of the special counsel investigation. My colleague Susan Hennessey discussed the nature of congressional investigative authority as well as investigative tools and their enforcement. In addition, the National Constitution Center offers a concise history of presidents’ use of executive privilege. Finally, Mark Rozell’s book entitled, “Executive Privilege” offers a deep dive that is nonetheless easy to read.

If history is any guide, the question of what executive branch documents and testimony the 116th Congress will receive access to will likely not be decided by a court. Disputes between Congress and the president over the scope of executive privilege are better understood as political battles with legal underpinnings—not as matters of pure law. As such, debates over the scope of executive privilege are likely to play out in the context of negotiations between House Democrats and the Trump administration, with each side making political calculations about what fights are worth having, when it makes sense to fight and when it makes sense to cooperate.

In the long run, that’s probably a good thing—shifting resolution of interbranch privilege disputes to the courts undermines Congress’s ability to maintain its place as a coequal branch in the constitutional scheme. In the short term, however, the reality is that those eager for House Democrats to obtain information relevant to their oversight efforts in an orderly, timely and clear-cut way are likely to feel some frustration over the next two years. The White House holds a lot of cards in this game.