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Both elliot richardson who was then the attorney general and mr. rickleshouse who was the deputy, both refused to fire the special prosecutor. >> right. >> but one of the people who has really gotten a bad rap here is robert bourque because he came in and ultimately fired cox. but it was actually a plan among richardson, ruckleshouse and bourque that bourque would fire cox in order that nixon could not insert his own person from the white house into the department of justice. so this is one of t...

Special prosecutor. >> right. >> but one of the people who has really gotten a bad rap here is robert bourque because he came in and ultimately fired cox. but it was actually a plan among richardson, ruckleshouse and bourque that bourque would fire cox in order that nixon could not insert his own person from the white house into the department of justice. so this is one of these little unknown stories that i learned from ruckleshouse a number of years ago. but, again, it was the same concern tha...

Association? >> nobody. its a liberal activist group that pretends to rate judges objectively. and all theyre really doing is giving cover to democrats in the senate that want an excuse to vote against the nominees. they hold conservative nominees to a different standard. the senate republicans should ignore what theyre saying. >> they did that against clarence thomas and sandbags robert bourque, calling him unqualified, which was a scandal, because he was so qualified. >> i think its ridiculous...

The special prosecutor statute says the prosecutor has to be fired by the attorney general but the question is would he do it or be like elliott richardson, nixons attorney general who resigned rather than firing the special prosecutor and then it was turtles all the way down until robert bourque carried out the act. if the new attorney general did fire mueller, would that be an impeachable offense, basically would the congress conclude that the president had ordered the attorney general to fire...

Important investigation. >> yes, it is twisted in the way you described. the question of whether its a constitutional crisis is a really interesting one. i persuaded by legal scholars who say a constitutional crisis is when the ordinary institutions dont have an answer. eventually robert bourque fired the special pros kurter. in the end as long as rosenstein is not a subject of the investigation it seems like democrats want him to stay. there is this d.o.j. regulation that say youre the subject ...

Rosenstein is implicated in the obstruction investigation by mueller. if hes going to recuse well be down to the ninth official in d.o.j. overseeing the most important investigation. >> yes, it is twisted in the way you described. the question of whether its a constitutional crisis is a really interesting one. i persuaded by legal scholars who say a constitutional crisis is when the ordinary institutions dont have an answer. eventually robert bourque fired the special pros kurter. in the end as ...

Raised the possibility of his recusal during a recent meeting with the associate attorney general rachel brand the justice departments new third in command. rosenstein told her that if he were to recuse himself, she would have to step in. she gets to be robert bourque. the pattern here is frighteningly clear, if trump decides he doesnt want to be prosecuted, is above the law, he peels off people. hes threatened more and will go after rosenstein, this is the news, more stuff from trump. >> well, ...

Linked in page. >> what does that mean? >> its your on-line resume. >> people ask me and ive been told by my people dont link in to anybody. >> let me explain to you they dont want me to do it. >> people are getting nervous. >> at this point if you go after rosenstein if you keep firing people eventually the january or is going to have to fire mueller. >> robert bourque. >> youre going to have these situations where historically or legally youre going to run into someone that wants to fight back...

Of cards down. >> the documentary also depicts the saturday night massacre when president nixon fired multiple attorneys general before he could find the one who would fire his special prosecutor. >> lets watch that. >> in october of 1973 he ordered his attorney general to fire the special prosecutor. the attorney general was appauled. he said no and resigned. then the president told one of his assistants to call the deputy attorney general. >> i picked the phone up. it was al hag and he wanted ...

As of tomorrow afternoon, then jeff sessions will be asked if he will resign if the special prosecutor is fired. that is what attorney general elliot richardson did when president nixon ordered him to fire special prosecutor archibald cox. elliot richardson refused the presidents order and resigned. and then the deputy attorney general williams ruckelhaus refused that same order, and then he refused. and then robert bourque obeyed the presidents order. and that was remembered when robert bourque...