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Request a little bit, but they werent supposed to have to thicken out the request. the statute is painfully simple that theyre operating under. now its being litigated, and thats due process, but well see. look, heres the problem with the taxes. this is all on the president. its a manufactured problem. >> yeah. >> he could just show them. well, hes not forced to. thats not the standard for good leadership. he created this. this is on him. ukraine is an entirely different animal. but i do think t...

In congress, a better chance of seeing the presidents tax returns? >> no, not the whistle-blower complaint. i mean, it helps thicken out the request a little bit, but they werent supposed to have to thicken out the request. the statute is painfully simple that theyre operating under. now its being litigated, and thats due process, but well see. look, heres the problem with the taxes. this is all on the president. its a manufactured problem. >> yeah. >> he could just show them. well, hes not forc...

That we were operating under. especially given the fact that we were two days away from the anniversary of 9/11. we also have our surveillance vehicles following him the entire way. so from denver across the country, we have surveillance in the sky. were doing everything we can to make sure we know where this guy is. >> while najibullah is on the road trip, we continue our investigation. we still knew very little about him. but we started to accumulate information. we started to look at his immi...

Says nsa got information through their technical means that this individual zazi was communicating with a known al qaeda e-mail address about making a bomb and was basically coming at us at a fast rate of speed to commit an act of terrorism on the anniversary of 9/11. im like, what? you no hknow? wasnt expecting that. >> there is a huge response biment that it cannot happen to new york. it cannot happen again. my role in new york was to try to take that information coming from the nsa and eric a...

He cant prosecute the president and he said that fairness concerns would prevent him from accusing the president of a crime without giving the president the opportunity he would have to defend himself in a normal situation where he was charged with a crime. therefore, this is the most you can do. in other words, you can forgive the special counsel for laying it all out on ten different instances of obstruction saying he had sufficient evidence without an interview of the presidents intent, a key...

He cant prosecute the president and he said that fairness concerns would prevent him from accusing the president of a crime without giving the president the opportunity he would have to defend himself in a normal situation where he was charged with a crime. therefore, this is the most you can do. in other words, you can forgive the special counsel for laying it all out on ten different instances of obstruction saying he had sufficient evidence without an interview of the presidents intent, a key...

Change the regulations. the rules that we operated under and then the rules that ken starr operated under were very different from what hes operating under. hes just another -- >> you were in a much more powerful position. >> we had much more independence and we had the protection of the attorney general as opposed to the president having the protection of the attorney general. and hes supposed to represent, the attorney general, the united states of america, not the united states president. so ...

Century after kenneth starr, after all the special prosecutors weve seen? i mean, wouldnt you have said to robert mueller, look, youre not going to be able to be a private person, youre going to have to make a public presentation? >> i think that i would certainly advise that. but i would also advise that you change the regulations. the rules that we operated under and then the rules that ken starr operated under were very different from what hes operating under. hes just another -- >> you were ...

States. they risked going to jail by lying to you, to the fbi and to congress about it and indeed some have gone to jail over such lies. and your work speaks of a president who committed many acts of obstruction of justice. had it been anyone else in the country they would have been indicted. notwithstanding the many things you have addressed today and in your report, there were some questions you could not answer, given the constraints youre operating under. you would not tell us whether you wo...

Votes in a few key states. you say that they risked going to jail by lying to you, to the fbi and to congress about it and indeed some have gone to jail over such lies. you work speaks of a president that obstructed justice and many other prosecutors had it been anyone else in the country, they would have been indicted. not withstanding the many things you have addressed today and in your report, there were some questions you couldnt answer given the constraints that youre operating under. you w...