the precedent. what about we know president trump, flashing forward just on the opposite side here, he talked about article 2 of the constitution which defines of office of the president. how does that play in all of this? >> well, article 2 is the part of the constitution that gives the president all of his powers, just like article 1 covers the congress, article 3 covers the federal judiciary. and what president trump supporters seem to be suggesting is that article 2 because it gives the power to hire and fire people that, it would protect the president's views, decisions, inner most thoughts on why he would have hired or fired, for example, you know, rod rosenstein, if it goes that way. they're saying that this is part of his core powers, but that's kind of a broad brush defense there if he were to assert it and i don't think that would go anywhere either. >> depending on which way this