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Decision. >> that decision would be made by robert ray, an experienced independent-counsel member and, unlike starr, a career prosecutor. >> i had been a federal prosecutor in the u.s. attorneys office for the southern disctrict of new york. >> im just very pleased that the special division, i think, very wisely, chose a career prosecutor, and i think thats going to help de-politicize all this. i certainly hope that it does. >> tasked with concluding several ongoing cases, ray quickly got down t...

Decision. >> that decision would be made by robert ray, an experienced independent-counsel member and, unlike starr, a career prosecutor. >> i had been a federal prosecutor in the u.s. attorneys office for the southern disctrict of new york. >> im just very pleased that the special division, i think, very wisely, chose a career prosecutor, and i think thats going to help de-politicize all this. i certainly hope that it does. >> tasked with concluding several ongoing cases, ray quickly got down t...

Executive hangout. and what those who drafted nixons articles of impeachment know, that yes, the use of executive privilege was literally part of the basis for the obstruction articles against nixon in his impeachment because it includes that nixon tried to cover up the facts of watergate and attempted to extend executive privilege to former aides and attempted to prevent their testimony. just let that sink in. nixons abuse of executive privilege for aides was itself key to the impeachment case ...

Grand jury, youre talking to agents. but you still have to tell the truth, if you dont, youre going to jail. >> executive privilege, it was wiped away because of the nixon case, it was an impeachment case, high crimes misdemeanors. there the court said no executive privilege. where does it play here at all? >> heres the deal. there is some limited claim in a congressional hearing before a grand jury, which is what plu mueller is working with, no credible claim. even with the congressional commit...

That jury of senators decides, too bad. because for the president the united states senate is the court of last resort. in impeachment trials. the president does not have a right to appeal to a higher court. there is no higher court. the president does not have a right to appeal to the supreme court if he is convicted by the senate in an impeachment trial and that means that the proper grounds for impeachment are whatever the united states senate says they are when they decide an impeachment cas...

The members of the united states senate are the jurors and if the president does not like what that jury of senators decides, too bad. because for the president the united states senate is the court of last resort. in impeachment trials. the president does not have a right to appeal to a higher court. there is no higher court. the president does not have a right to appeal to the supreme court if he is convicted by the senate in an impeachment trial and that means that the proper grounds for impe...

United states senate in which the members of the united states senate are the jurors and if the president does not like what that jury of senators decides, too bad. because for the president the united states senate is the court of last resort. in impeachment trials. the president does not have a right to appeal to a higher court. there is no higher court. the president does not have a right to appeal to the supreme court if he is convicted by the senate in an impeachment trial and that means th...

To republicans in congress. they havent shone an appetite for anything like that. >> i dont think there is a constitutional bar to the special counsel actually dieting a sitting president. but there are lots of reasons why that wouldnt happen. rather he would make a report to congress that might say this is what i found and if you found evidence of obstruction here is the evidence youll have to weigh whether you think that rises to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor. now, anderson, i tried...

Deliberately gave the president no such rights. the president of the united states can be brought up on impeachment charges by a vote of the house of representatives and then he has a right to a trial in the united states senate in which the members of the united states senate are the jurors and if the president does not like what that jury of senators decides, too bad. because for the president, the united states senate is the court of last resort in the impeachment trials. the president does n...

United states senate says they are when they decide an impeachment case and for centuries we have pondered the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors as if by pondering it we can come up with a regional standard, objective standard, judicial standard about what exactly constitutes an impeachable defense. in his brilliant new article, mandatory reading entitled the case for mess moorizing impeachment, government mostly used to impeach federal judges and high crimes and misdemeanors means whatever th...