extorting a favor from one thing seems pretty close to what the founders decided to specifically name? >> it's good to make a distinction here among three kinds of things. there's bribery, which means prescri bribing a person who's not you if you're the president, or bribing the president bribing. bribery is not defined in the constitution. treason is. the catch all of high crimes and misdemeanors is probably the more reasonable route to take. if we think of exterortion as threat and bribery as offer, that's the difference between the two. if we had something like that,