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Avenue example? the local authorities couldnt investigate, couldnt do anything about it? >> i think once a president is removed from office, any local authority -- this is not a permanent immunity. >> im talking about while in office. >> no. >> nothing could be done. thats your position? >> that is correct. >> thisgument that you are cant even look into if a crime was committed by the president is so far beyond what has ever before been offered. we have guidance memos to or by the olc, the offic...

Removed from office, any local authority -- this is not a permanent immunity. >> im talking about while in office. >> no. >> nothing could be done. thats your position? >> that is correct. >> this argument that you are cant even look into if a crime was committed by the president is so far beyond what has ever before been offered. we have guidance memos to or by the olc, the office of legal counsel, one by then solicitor general robert bourque. they say a president cant be indicted. keep in mind...

Other problem that nooet cateo was on last night that the constitution requires that the principal officers of the executive branch agencies must be senate confirmed officials. >> like rod rosenstein. >> and sally yates in the past. >> traditionally the deputy attorney general if that position were vacant at the justice department the solicitor general has served as acting attorney general. robert bourque when he was assistant general served as acting attorney general when richard nixon fired th...

James comey, i said that we are all going through a slow motion, multi-month saturday night massacre. when president nixon fired leon jaworski, the special counsel looking into watergate and there was a whole blood bath with the attorney general elliott richardson resigning and deputy attorney general resigning, et cetera, and ultimately robert bourque i believe is the one who fired jaworski, that was called the saturday night massacre for people who dont remember and it was president nixon at t...

And with that i must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent. thank you. [ applause ] >> justice kavanaugh then offered his own take on the bruising confirmation process, and he also addressed concerns about his ability to be impartial while on the bench. >> the senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional. that process is over. my focus now is to be the best justice i can be. i take this office with gratitude and no bitterness. on the supreme court, i wil...

Process was contentious and emotional. that process is over. my focus now is to be the best justice i can be. i take this office with gratitude and no bitterness. on the supreme court, i will seek to be a force for stability and unity. every american can be assured that i will be an independent and impartial justice, devoted to equal justice under law. >> kavanaugh is easily the least popular nominee since robert bourque. just 41% believe he should be on the court, while 51% say no. the presiden...

Innocent. and then from the conservative movement standpoint, fair or not, conservatives believe that this is a long trend that started with robert bourque and then the attacks on clarence thomas and now with kavanaugh they wait until after the hearing and then come forward -- im just telling you how conservatives view it. >> but why didnt it happen with neil gorsuch? >> because neil gorsuch doesnt change the court. he was replacing scalia. th this appointment will move the court rightward and i...

Contested issues matter. also about u.s. v. nixon, hes been critical of that case in the past so i think he was trying to insulate himself from the claim he was too deferential to presidential power by embracing u.s. v. nixon but the nutritional content of the testimony yesterday was on the order of saltines, i would say. >> heres what else, i dont know, he did not take a position on, some really big questions. can a sitting president be forced to respond to a subpoena, can a president pardon hi...

In unprecedented smear campaign against judge robert bourque. as mark mullpullium said in an ed, the borqing of robert bourque showed they could demonize solely on their world view. worse character assassinations proved attacking nearly justin thomas appointment four years later. he also said, continuing to quote, by confirming judge kavanaugh, the senate can go some way towards atoneing for its shameful treatment of justice robert bourque 31 years ago, end of quote. judge kavanaugh is one of th...

Appalling when were talking about a lifetime seat on the supreme court. theres nothing to do with the giving party or the seasons that we may be living in, in terms of who is up and who is down politically. >> thats exactly right, reverend. here we have, everything is on the line. literally everything is on the line of the we have a conservatives conservative supreme court justice pick that is politically toxic because we see that in a recent poll where kavanaugh is seen as one of the least popu...