Two weeks after former Attorney General Michael Mukasey embarrassed CNN host Chris Cuomo on his own show (Cuomo Prime Time) by calling out how his was “misleading a lot of people,” he was back to school Cuomo and spoon feed him the law on executive privilege, releasing grand jury material, and obtaining FISA warrants. As a reminder, Cuomo used to be a trained lawyer and treats his show like a courtroom.

As they began diving into what was covered by executive privilege, Cuomo couldn’t understand why former White House counsel Don McGahn’s conversations with President Trump should still be protected (click “expand”):

MUKASEY: McGahn's disclosures. Because -- CUOMO: Even if he doesn't work there anymore. MUKASEY: Correct. It's not whether he works there anymore, it's whether he worked there at the time that he made them. CUOMO: But does the privilege survive? I mean, it's not the privilege of me giving you $5 and you representing me in a case against someone else. That's a complete privilege. This is an incomplete privilege.

Mukasey tried to explain that since McGahn and Special Counsel Robert Mueller were both part of the executive branch, their conversation was protected. And in the process, Mukasey blasted Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (CA) for being “flat-out wrong” about McGahn waiving that privilege.

Cuomo still couldn’t wrap his head around it, so Mukasey had to walk him though the logic step-by-step (click “expand”):

MUKASEY: Mueller is still a member of which branch of government? CUOMO: Executive. MUKASEY: Thank you. It's an executive privilege. Disclosure from one part of the executive to another part of the executive is not a waiver of the executive privilege. CUOMO: Who says? It's hard to find cases on point that's why I ask you. MUKASEY: Okay. The concept is inconsistent with waiver. Number one. Number two, if it is a waiver, it's as you know from law school, waivers are narrowly construed. It's a relinquishment of a right.

“Why block so much. You say you were fully exonerated. You say you have nothing to hide. You say you're going to give everything you can. Everybody around him keeps saying he's always transparent, he's always giving everything. He's giving nothing,” Cuomo whined about the President.

Recalling how a less-redacted version of the Mueller Report was made available to Congress, Mukasey argued that Democrats proved they weren’t out to gather facts because zero of them showed up to view it.

“We got what? Six percent redacted. Mostly having to do with ongoing investigations,” Mukasey added as Cuomo continued to complain about transparency.

As Cuomo began to argue that a judge could be petitioned to release the redacted grand jury material in the report, Mukasey again had to educate the former lawyer on the law (click “expand):

MUKASEY: No, you can't. CUOMO: Why can't you go and deal with the 6E material that way? It's been done before. MUKASEY: No, you get a 6E order only for law enforcement purposes. That's the limit. CUOMO: So you can't do it for anything else? MUKASEY: No, sir. CUOMO: The idea that in blocking all of these things he attacking the legitimacy-- MUKASEY: You can't do it to satisfy congressional curiosity.

From there, the pair moved on to discussing the fishy nature of the FISA warranted the FBI used to spy on Trump campaign staffer Carter Page. “We have a lot of reasons to believe that something was done that shouldn't have been done,” Mukasey accurately noted.

Mukasey explained that the warrant against Page was granted using “incomplete information.” And as further proof something was wrong with the investigation, he pointed to the fact that Page was not charged with a crime. “Who said he had to be,” Cuomo decried.

Flashing his lack of knowledge about the FISA court and perhaps a bit of gullibility, Cuomo began arguing about what was need to get a FISA warrant. Mukasey was more than happy to set him straight (click “expand”):

CUOMO: To get a FISA application, you need to find probable cause he may be a foreign agent, not that he committed a crime and you need never charge him. MUKASEY: No, for an American citizen, which Carter Page was, you need a showing that he was involved in the commission of a crime. CUOMO: I do not -- are you sure that that's the standard? MUKASEY: Yes, I am. CUOMO: Because I have somebody from the DOJ who was involved in that who says it's not the standard. You have to show that he had probable cause or you had probable cause he was a foreign agent. MUKASEY: Chris, I will send you the statute by email. CUOMO: It has to check both boxes? MUKASEY: Yes. For an American citizen. CUOMO: For an American citizen. MUKASEY: Not for a foreigner.

Again, Mukasey did a very good job of exposing how CNN, and Cuomo, mislead a lot of people.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: