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>> in the context of the specific regulations there that a criminal trial subpoena to the president for information, in that case the tapes, could be enforced. not with standing the executive privilege recognized in that case. >> thats the law of the land as of this moment? >> united states versus nixon is the law of the land. >> whether or not the president can be indicted while in office has been a discussion thats gone on for a long time, is that true? in the legal world. >> thats correct. th...

Judicial nominations, and im coming to your answer, but i want to explain, is to meet up here and this happens on both sides all the time with teams up here about, okay, judicial nominees are coming up, how do we get them through, here is a hearing coming up. and during those meetings, of course it would be discussed, well, i think heres what senator leahy will be interested in. that is very common. im sure in president obamas administration when they had similar meetings, they would probably ha...

In any of the administrations that youve worked for? >> yes, the nixon administration, but no other administration in the past. and i can guarantee you from my work with the times, i think its virtually certain that whoever the person is who came to them, the times didnt seek out this piece, the person came to them, had to be a member of the cabinet or in the top inner circle of the white house. i just dont think "the new york times" would print something from somebody whos in a secondary agency...

Beyond getting a sense of reading the book who may have spoken with him, who was left out and the president also is keenly focusing on the denials. particularly from his white house chief of staff john kelly and defense secretary james mattis. he said he was heartened by their denials. the president went after bob woodward earlier today in the oval office like this. >> the book is a work of fiction. its a -- really if you look at it, it was put out to interfere in my opinion at this time with th...

Out. you notice that these guys are going to deny that they spoke to woodward. theyre going to pretend it wasnt them. theyre all going to deny it. this happens with every woodward book, republican administrations an democratic administrations. but bob woodward has the juice here. he has the facts. i think that this is going to be a very hard time for these folks because, you know, you heard the conversation with trump and kellyanne today. hes not going to trust anybody. hes not going to trust an...

Country at risk. and every day these examples of donald trumps impulse and ego getting the best of him, you know, play out. these guys have to say, you know, am i going to stay here inside the belly of the beast and hope that i can -- that i can, you know, move a few things off of his radar screen so he doesnt start world war iii or destroy our alliances forever. but the truth of the matter is theyre morally culpable in the end. if they really were concerned about the fate of the country, they w...

Not somebody who has toiled away in various administrations. but is highly political. and thats another reason why this is so significant. >> clearly not a career official. a career bureaucrat. this is someone correctly whos named to come in at a very high level according to "the new york times" and serve the president of the united states and clearly outraged by what he says. everybody, stand by. theres much more were getting in on the breaking news. how big is the resistance on the trump team?...

That didnt work by a 6-3 vote of the supreme court given the statutes continue has passed. so too, no president is above the law in the sense that a president remains subject to what the supreme court said in the clinton versus jones case, civil process. thats a precedent of the security. civil suits while in office. so to the criminal process, hamilton specifies this in federalist 69. a president is not above the law with respect to the criminal process. the only question that the justice depar...

Department of justice in democratic and republican administrations has been that you cant indict a sitting president. and so in that sense its not extraordinary, but it does feed into his other views often expressed that investigations of the president are harmful. he proposed -- has proposed in a law review piece legislation to make legislation of a president something that cant be done during the presidents term of office, or even civil suits. its clearly his experience, also, as he made very ...

Owning their power. putting that aside, i will say this is a hearing that was held today that we were given 15 hours to review 42,000 pages of documents. 100,000 pages of documents that no other president has done this, but this president has applied executive privilege to deny us to have access to these documents. and this is a nominee who has a long history of being a political operative. a long history of working for various conservative public administrations that has been politically motiva...