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Former white house counsel in contempt of congress which would set off a criminal process. this is not that. what it is is a way to streamline and fast-track the ability of committee chairs to go to the court system to ask those courts to enforce the subpoenas that they have been issuing. weve seen two dozen subpoenas, individuals and financial institutions as part of the stra sprawling investigations of trump administration and trump industries on capitol hill. this is about the fact that they ...

Executive branch or cabinet members to testify before committees of congress, not answering subpoenas, blocking every attempt for us to get information to provide the check on the presidency that the voters asked us to do when they elected a democratic majority in 2018, i have to look to the constitution. the only tool remaining, if were unable to provide a check in any other fashion, the only tool remaining is the tool much of impeachment. despite the politics, the president may take us in a wa...

Department. in that fall of 1973, he was serving in the justice department. he was one of the closest advisers to the attorney general and j.t. smith was there, was there when richardson asked the head of the olc robert dixon to come up with an official justice department answer to this suddenly very pressing question about whether a sitting vice president could be indicted. and what j.t. smith told us in an interview for "bag man" is that robert dixon, that pressure-packed fall of 1973, robert ...

Acceptable for the president to be subject to criminal process while in office, but by distinction the vice president, whose duties are nowhere near as important, can be subject to criminal process. and thats one of the memos now cited for the proposition. but when it was written, it was a very close question and the professor in charge of the office of legal counsel wasnt clear how to answer it, but it got answered against the imperative of dealing with the agnew heartbeat away problem. >> got ...

Criminal -- a criminal process. if they do that, you know what their ultimate is, its called the death penalty. i thanked president chi very much -- president xi very much. this was a meeting that was supposed to last for about 45 minutes and it ended up being almost four hours, some of you were there. it was a great meeting. well see what happens. you never know with a deal. but i will tell you, china is not doing well now and it puts us in a very strong position. we are doing very well, but we...

>> thats true, weve just never seen this much of it or a president who abuses the truth the way he does. >> i dont know about that. >> i think ray is on the same thing of mirrors and missing the issues. the issue is not lying under oath. its lying to the american people. a very serious felony. you just heard kellyanne conway say, people, election experts agree this wasnt a felony. and stuff like that. absolutely preposterous. >> no, i dont -- i dont agree with that. >> let me finish. tomorrow i ...

Us in april. i have no idea why we should bring him now. the criminal process will unfold. i think the impeachment process will unfold. time will tell what happened. if i were a lawyer -- >> what they can corroborate. by saying, well, you know, hes lied before. all right. fair enough. but he had his statements in this regard corroborated by the prosecutors as with the mueller probe and what he told them about russia. they said, with respect to this, from the second meeting on, hes told the truth...

That a sitting president cannot be indicted. there were different policy reasons given and the overarching constitutionality of it would be simply said if he does something that bad, youre going to impeach him anyway and then can you have this type of criminal process. we dont want to have something akin to political payback. you say it isnt that clear. >> it is that clear. thats not binding, thats the opinion of a particular justice department. the framers were very careful. they did not want b...

Situation and once again in 2000, both during republican administrations put out guidance for prosecutors at the d.o.j. that a sitting president cannot be indicted. there were different policy reasons given and the overarching constitutionality of it would be simply said if he does something that bad, youre going to impeach him anyway and then you can have this type of criminal process. we dont want to have something akin to political payback. you say it isnt that clear. >> it is that clear. the...

History of this country. >> in fact, there is no law saying the president cannot be subjected to criminal process, as president nixon painfully discovered before he decided to resign the presidency and accept a pardon from his former vice president after he resigned. thats how president nixon avoided criminal process, by resigning the presidency and getting a pardon that prevented any criminal process from closing in on richard nixon. ru rudy giuliani said the president would submit if the speci...