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Scope. >> the big indictment. under georgia state law, the special grand jury cannot indict. they cannot return an indictment, state of georgia versus donald trump or any other person. what they can do and the da says this is issue a recommendation for prosecution. if they do that or even if not, the district attorney can decide whether to take the evidence and present it to a normal grand jury that may have the option to indict. >> whats happening here is that the da was feeling as though there...

Last month before the grand jury was quested on the raffensperger call, you said just the words themselves i find it hard to believe that someone can indict or ever get a conviction that was supporting either obstruction or perjury or election fraud. what do you make of the now that the grand jury is moving forward? . its going to depend who is on the grand jury. this grand jury cant indict. this is a special purpose grand jury which just does the investigation and as jfry said, it subpoenas rec...

See where it goes. >> walker through that step, theres many ways to interpret this. what is your interpretation of this request? for a grand jury and what that means? >> so, grandeurs are different in every state. which makes it complicated. and in georgia the special grand jury serves a different purpose than the special grand jury does in new york. in georgia, a special grand jury cannot indict. it can call witnesses, can subpoena witnesses, can look at evidence. and then issues a report and r...

Forward? >> its going to depend on who is on the grand jury. this grand jury cant indict. this is a special purpose grand jury which just does the investigation and as jeffrey said, it subpoenas records, subpoenas documents and can take sworn testimony. but it cannot indict. it just does a report at the end, a maximum of a year, which would be may of 2023. so it wont indict. you know, whether the phone call to mr. raffensperger ultimately would lead a criminal grand jury to indict is questionabl...

The white house keeps complaining about congress overreaching. presidential harassment or whatever. he said this mueller thing. it never stops. wasnt the mueller report a road map to congress to start investigation? you touched on it a bit before. >> it had to be. according to the department of justice policy not a law, cannot indict a president. if a president commits murder, or federal treasury and puts in a bank account. presumably there has to be accountability. if it cant happen through the...

Amount to an incapacitation." in plain english, please do not indict a sitting president. that was the opinion of the department of justice in 1973. 27 years later in the year 2000, the same office of legal counsel doubled down on that opinion. quote, the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions. the question of whether a serving president can be indicted ca...

Could put him in greater legal jeopardy, so why do that? >> because it was stupid. >> technically speaking. because it was stupid. i got it. >> look, you cant always seek explanations for the presidents behavior and some form of higher rationality. i mean, there is clearly a pneumonic tick going on here. he is fulminating. obsessing his mind. this is the risk for any administration, a president whose every stray thought goes to twitter. some i think clearly amount to attempts to obstruct justice...

Sometimes involved. this is a very polarizing idea. she is just getting straight to the point here. >> bill: a lot of people are talking. nice to see you, carley shimkus. >> bill: this is giuliani claiming special counsel cannot indict the president. the reasoning behind that is straight ahead. well, heres to first dates! you look amazing.

John hileman, the former attorney general says the obstruction of justice case is there against the president. >> obviously important eric holder thinks that. many people on the right will dismiss it because its ash. >> it eric holder. >> yes. people must sai stop saying that robert mueller cannot indict the president. >> ive never said it. >> we have in the watergate era and the clinton era. we have hypotheses about whether or not the sitting president can be indicted or prosecuted. theyre all ...

The client. they would say we recommend you negotiate and go for some plea agreement. >> theyre get ago divorce. when the books are written well find out. john hileman, the former attorney general says the obstruction of justice case is there against the president. >> obviously important eric holder thinks that. many people on the right will dismiss it because its ash. >> it eric holder. >> yes. . people must sai stop saying that robert mueller cannot indict the president. >> ive never said it. ...