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Department, the legal counsel, to give serious consideration as to whether theres any reason not to indict a president. take, for example, the situation where a president is one of several defendants in a multi-count indictment. you could have the president as a, quote, un-indicted co-conspirator. thats what nixon investigator leon jaworski did during the watergate scandal. but that, itself, cast a cloud over the presidency, without actually taking care of the statute of limitations problem that...

The legal counsel to the justice department from 2000, the most recent opinion, mainly deals with the question of whether a president could be put on actual criminal trial. it deals briefly with the question of whether a mere indictment is possible. and says, well, no, that would put a cloud over the presidency, so that shouldnt be allowed either. it could well be that the, that the special counsel would consider himself bound by that opinion, though he could ask the justice department, the lega...

Our understanding of the big arguments, comey firing, hillary clinton. how does it change our thinking about those things? >> the general concern is that the investigation, as it were was biased to help mrs. clinton, but the justice department and the f.b.i. and the most vivid illustration is that loretta lynch met with the witness and maybe in a target in a fair world, bill clinton, a week before that they were supposed to be interviewing hillary clinton on the email matter. and ms. lynch admit...

Claims nunes cast a cloud over the issue and claims of collusion during the campaign is building. >> you admit circumstantial case. >> actually no, chuck. i can tell you that the case is more than that. i cant go into the particulars, but there is more than circumstance evidence now. again, i think -- >> you have seencollusion? >> i dont want to go into specifics. there is evidence that is not circumstantial and very much worthy of investigation. >> president trump says he feels quote somewhat v...

Investigation and so it was dana boente, an obama administration holdover who gave the green light for comey to give this extraordinary statement. that is something that you can is it going to enrage officials at the white house. that will confirm their paranoia about the u.s. government working against them. >> that is a great point. devin nunes said youve cast a cloud over this administration which, again, i dont know the truth of what they will or will not find and in some ways is unnerving e...

Volunteer. but a couple of other striking things worth mentioning, you know, comey said right at the get-go that he was authorized by the department of justice to make this statement. well, jeff sessions had no role in that. he is recused from this investigation and so it was dana boente, an obama administration holdover who gave the green light for comey to give this extraordinary statement. that is something that you can is it going to enrage officials at the white house. that will confirm the...

Worse. theyre not going to enforce the mandate. they didnt allow advertising for people to sign up. they have cast a cloud over it but despite that, anybody who reads the cbo report, thats the non-partisan umpire that calls the balls and strikes, indicates that it is working, that is working well. and if theyd work with us to try and improve going forward rather than cast doubts upon it, wed be in terrific shape. as it stands, their proposal is going to raid medicaid money, its going to destabil...

Interfering 11 days before the election has proven himself really in history hell be one of the worst directors weve ever had, this is an outrageous performance by the fbi. >> what do you say to folks, sean spicer, kellyanne conway and others who say this is sour grapes, youre being a sore loser and attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the duly elected incoming president of the united states? >> i would say if youre patriotic american, you care when america is attacked. and attacking the va...

Working around the clock to process and review a large volume of e-mails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. during that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from hillary clinton while she was secretary of state. based on our review, we have not changed or conclusions that we expressed in july. with respect to hillary clinton. im grateful to the professionals doing an extraordinary amount of work in a short period of time. congr...

Judge or magistrate judge in the united states shall disqualify himself at any proceeding in which his impartiality might be questioned. this is enforced by judges and others. its not inforcible by the supreme court. it is understood that we wound hope they would stand up and do the right thing. this is outrageous. >> its really a problem. it does cast a cloud over this proceedings. if he should happen to be a deciding vote, it raises a real appearance of impropriety. and i think as your guest s...