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Tonights last word, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has been released from the hospital after undergoing surgery for cancer. the 85-year-old justice with two cancerous nodules removed if her lung on friday is now out. doctors say theres no evidence of any remaining disease and shes recuperating at her home in new york. she had been treated for cancer you may remember twice while on the court. both times she made a full recovery and didnt miss any argument sessions. the court is next sc...

Immune. walter de llinger, one avenue writing one possible resolution would be to offer a plea bargain in which the commander in chief agreed to resign the presidency in exchange for utmost leniency. he goes on to add the end of spiro ago knews vice presidency is instructive and provides a good example why we should be able to indict a president. mr. dellinger, prosecutorial discretion amazes me. i watch it all the time. ive seen it with congress people in a quiet way without anything agree to e...

All three address the problem and all three you indict in secret, keep it sealed and you cant let it be in the way. >> he may be an already indicted co-con spiritor because we dont know whats been voted. >> highly unlikely. walter knows more about the department of justice legal opinions that i do, but the controlling wiggling departy says you cant invite a southern muller and i think judge mccall live thought it was cool. >> ruth marcus, thank you for explaining the thursday prospect.

Again, even though the man is working for mueller, lying will not be tolerated. very foretelling. lets bring in former acting solicitor general, walter dellinger. great to have you. welcome to "primetime." >> thank you. >> the idea of state of mind and what im laying out there, this was always my concern when i heard about the written interrogatories originally, that if they want to know why the president did what he did, its tough to glean, as we say in the law, from just written answers. fair ...

And well see. as we get more meat on the bones, you are one of the men ill have to call back for more of your take on this situation. >> well, youre quite welcome, chris. thank you. >> i encourage everybody to read your piece, out this weekend. well give directions on the site and i will link it up as well. thank you very much. so, general flynn is sentenced to be -- is due to be sentenced on tuesday, all right? we know that -- this is weird today, what happened. thats why im trying to spell i...

Journalist and editorial writer, and at this stage, there is no dispute that this would become a legal fight all of the way up to the supreme court, and dare say that even this supreme court would not have to wrestle with this. >> one would think, and the president said is a number of things in the clip that you said earlier that are simply not correct. that it is ridiculous that we have this rule, and it is not ridiculous that we have this rule, because it is in the constitution, and the united...

Investigating. you know, there was a time when people said, oh, mueller is not investigating anything having to do with collusion with the russians. well, i thought, nobody knows that. nobody knows what hes looking at at this moment. >> yeah. walter dellinger, the article is in "the new york times" entitled "yes, you can indict the president." thank you, sir. >> youre quite welcome. thank you, don. and when we come back, are you an american citizen? why the trump administration says that quest...

Comcast, building americas largest gig-speed network. it is a question looming over washington and legal experts are going head-to-head over it. can a sitting united states president be indicted? walter dellinger is a former assistant attorney general and a former acting solicitor attorney general. he believes the answer is yes and he joins me now. mr. dellinger, thank you so much for joining us. you wrote an op-ed in "the new york times." it says, yes, you can indict the president. and you ar...

Actually taking care of the statute of limitations problem that a president could go free if the time expired for criminal charges while he was in office. >> let me ask you this, because mr. dellinger, you argued the clinton v. jones case before the supreme court, making the case that indicting president clinton would keep him from doing the job of running the country, and that turned out to be a losing argument. so why are you arguing the other side when it comes to this president, to president...

Ordinary criminal cases like tax evasion or money laundering. in that case, the independent counsel could file an indictment naming multiple defendants. a president might say, oh, you have to strike me from the indictment, because im a sitting president who cant be indicted. at that point, the special counsel or the judge would say, will you -- will you agree that you will not argue, after you leave office, that the time for bringing charges is expired? and only if the president agrees to that w...