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Legal experts, including me, im open on the question of whether a sitting president can be indicted. im not clear. i recognize as i must that the office of legal counsel issued two memoranda saying it will be doj policy that you cant do it but if they did it, hypothetically, law school classroom, im not kwinconvince court wouldnt say its okay.pu gun and shoot cabinet member, they wont say well wait until he gets out of office. >> thats practical versus academically. say he bludgeons ten people w...

Of lawyer or defender. how do you feel about your department of justice at this point when a person who is completely outside of the government, who was not involved even in the campaign can come in and make a decision about whether his boss, essentially, the president will be prosecuted. i think this speaks to our entire justice system at this point whether it was loretta lynch meeting bill clinton or a tarmac or a.g. barr is he really impartial. is he for the people or someone to keep the pres...

Two memoranda are not binding in court. you can sort of argue this both ways. on the one hand if he went into it saying you have these olc memos then hes not going to engage in normal prosecutorial function and then the bar, we above you would decide whether the olc memos block prosecution. it starts getting complicated. >> it seems to me that mueller was very clear that he didnt just say legal counsel, he said its their understanding of the u.s. constitution that he really was constitutionally ...

Witch hunt and the attorney general is asking people to look into the or xwhigins of this investigation. hes saying they had important work to do here and what they revealed was important in itself. >> here is the question for robert mueller. and i think it manhatthasnt be answered. if he accepted the justice department guidelines that you cant ib ditndict a sitting president, why didnt he alert the american people to that finding months before his report came out so that we would not be looking...

Republicans that voiced objection. the bill went to the senate and came back. none of us had seen it. we didnt know what was in it. it had 2 or $3 billion more than the first version and now we had to accept what speaker pelosi was going to do and put it on the floor on a friday after everybody went out of town and pass it by consent. thats not what the american people want. >> the white house already signed off. >> sure but they wanted the relief they want in place in florida and puerto rico an...

The attorney general. >> i agree. >> they think they are innocent. they think they have beat this wrap. case closed. whats coming next in terms of their behavior with regard to the congress and whether they will honor the subpoenas? >> today made it a lot more difficult to go scorched earth and im completely exonerated. lets break down a couple of the quick bombshells. the first one was insufficient evidence. the take away from everybody is thats a different discussion, obviously, from somebody ...

Include his testimony as well. he said, this is my decision. i made this decision myself. nobody told me whether i can or should testify or speak further about the matter. from his own lips, bob mueller does not want to testify before congress. will he ultimately agree to do so in a closed session? perhaps so with a transcript to be released later. what he said is, dont get your hopes up, im not going to go beyond whats in the report. as for access to my materials that my staff gathered, thats n...

From testifying. so that is getting around someh especially after the presidents tweet that he didnt want him to testify and the attorney general to hold him back from doing that. he also, chris, underlined a point about why he didnt come to that obstruction decision which is the big question everyone in the public has, why i did not make that decision. and we wondered whether we can trust the attorney generals word on that. and today suspepecial counsels office put together a handout with barrs...

There is sufficient evidence. that is a different tone, a different attitude that the president is now taking. not to say that we wont see an all caps tweet come out at some point, but we havent just yet. >> because mueller made clear that he is putting all this evidence in a cryogenic state. he is freezing it for a later time nap time. that is pretty obvious. thank you so much. let me go to u.s. congressman. member of the intelligence committee. youre smiling and im wondering why. it seems that...

If a bill similar to the bill of alabama came before me up here i would vote for it. i believe that all life is sacred. thats point one. point two, i know a lot of people in d.c. theyre running around saying oh, the supreme court is going to take up these cases and reverse roe versus wade. i dont know what the supreme court will do. they dont hear all cases. let me tell you something, whether you agree with the result of roe versus wade or you dont, i taught constitutional law in another life fo...