Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170303:05:52:00
President or someone who is a high official, the attorney general goes to a three-judge panel and they appoint a special prosecutor and the person charged has the chance to clear his name. all the way from the time of richard nixon all the way through bill clinton there were special prosecutors appointed obviously that dealt with things like iran-contra and the monica lewinsky episode under bill clinton. the act generally worked but was allowed to expire in 1999 and hasn't happened seriously since then. >> the process now of picking a special prosecutor, if that's going to happen, maybe the de...