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There are questions during the campaign season that are bound to come up. we have learned that she plans to be asked questions about what she knows about that hush money scheme that the president was allegedly involved with to silence those adpar -- affairs, extramarital affairs in the run up to the 20 san francis-- the elections and shell be asked questions about that as well and those are questions that the white house presumably cannot seek to block, cannot invoke executive privilege or say s...

Amendment. exactly. theres no conflict there because andrew mccabe did not say that rod rosenstein was in a position to invoke the 25th amendment because everyone knows the deputy attorney general cannot invoke the 25th amendment. it can only be invoked by the vice president, first the vice president, and then a majority of the cabinet has to join the vice president. so the justice departments statement does not contradict a single word that andrew mccabe has said about rod rosenstein seriously ...

So there you have rod rosenstein in effect with that statement confirming that he talked about it because he doesnt deny that he talked about it. in the statement that the justice department issued. in interviews andrew mccabe has also revealed that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein more than once conducted serious discussions about the possibility of using the constitutional procedure of the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. the justice department statement says the deput...

Hire people who were specialists in obstruction of justice. then you move on to what you showed the clip of. we have the oddity which we all focused in on at the time. he had two officials who were refusing to discuss what they said with the president. but also admitted that there would be no invocation of executive privilege. just wanted him to leave the room in case he wanted to declare executive privilege later. this is not going to work with bob mueller. this is jeffreys area rather than min...

Executive privilege. only the president can invoke it in trying to stop them from testifying, but what we know from the supreme courts decision in united states versus nixon in 1974 is that they are -- the courts are not going to stop a criminal investigation and are not going to limit the questioning of potential witnesses. so i think executive privilege, even if the trump administration invoked -- is not going to be able to stop it. >> today, john, we have video. mueller had a meeting where se...

The president cannot invoke executive privilege. >> how does this compare? >> comey -- you are not going to go there. >> you know what the comparison is? >> the comparison is the following. the issue of obstruction of justice. when nixon replies in an ein direct way. nixon and trump, if trump is indeed guilty of obstruction would take different approach of this. the comey testimony, hes given an argument of the president of the white house. you cannot get away from the facts of the document and ...