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>> good to have you this morning. i want to ask you about a phone call you got last night from the white house. who called you? >> it was a member on the national security council to let me know that an attack was taking place in response to the chemical weapons use by syria. and told me the specifics and when the president would be addressing the nation. >> and how do you explain that the -- with all due respect -- that the white house called you individually rather than taking this to congress as a whole? >> the president has certain discretions under article ii. it does require consultation...

Mr. chairman, the genius of the constitution. madison thought that the separation of powers was perhaps the most important liberty guaranteeing device in the whole constitution. this is a point of civics that i do think maybe is lost today, how valuable the separation of powers is. that you have in article one, the people's representatives make the law. that's your job. i don't think it's an accident the framers put article i first. your job comes first. you make the law. article ii, the president's job is to faithfully execute your laws. our job, article iii, down at the bottom, is to make su...

Daughter: you sure? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab. now, therefore, i, gerald r. ford, president of the united states, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by article ii, section ii of the constitution, have granted and by these presence do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto richard nixon for all offenses against the united states. >> president gerald ford a month after he took office, september 1974, announcing a full and unconditional pardon for the previous president of the united states, ric...

Now, therefore, i, gerald r. ford president of the united states, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by article ii, section ii of the constitution, have dwranted and by these presence do grant a full, free and absolute pardon onto richard nixon for all offenses against the united states. >> president gerald ford a month after he took office, september, 1974, announcing a full and unconditional pardon for the previous president of the united states, richard nixon, for his offenses against the united states. what ford did there, that was a preemptive pardon. no charnls had been broug...

Legal issue and that is the one of congressional notification. when the president signed the defense authorization act last year, it contained a provision that the administration must notify congress not later than 30 days before the transfer or release of a prisoner in guantanamo. question, did the president break the law or was that requirement an unconstitutional infringement on his executive powers? >> well, yes to both. he broke the law, but i believe that the law itself is unconstitutional. article ii make him the commander in chief of the armed forces. this man -- these people were in t...