“It remains to be seen whether a court will say that its construction of who is entitled to executive privilege is valid or not,” MS NOW legal correspondent Lisa Rubin told the panel. “But, at least as the DOJ considers it, is Karoline Leavitt, an outside adviser when she leaves the presidency, the presidential administration, and continues to talk to Trump on the phone and give him advice?"

"Absolutely,” she elaborated. “Because that memo defines the term private adviser in a breathtakingly broad way, it’s basically anyone that the president calls or anyone that even his direct staff calls and solicits advice from can be a private adviser to the president.”