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Department, the legal counsel, to give serious consideration as to whether there's any reason not to indict a president. take, for example, the situation where a president is one of several defendants in a multi-count indictment. you could have the president as a, quote, un-indicted co-conspirator. that's what nixon investigator leon jaworski did during the watergate scandal. but that, itself, cast a cloud over the presidency, without 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...

The legal counsel to the justice department from 2000, the most recent opinion, mainly deals with the question of whether a president could be put on actual criminal trial. it deals briefly with the question of whether a mere indictment is possible. and says, well, no, that would put a cloud over the presidency, so that shouldn't be allowed either. it could well be that the, that the special counsel would consider himself bound by that opinion, though he could ask the justice department, the legal counsel, to give serious consideration as to whether there's any reason not to indict a president...

Our understanding of the big arguments, comey firing, hillary clinton. how does it change our thinking about those things? >> the general concern is that the investigation, as it were was biased to help mrs. clinton, but the justice department and the f.b.i. and the most vivid illustration is that loretta lynch met with the witness and maybe in a target in a fair world, bill clinton, a week before that they were supposed to be interviewing hillary clinton on the email matter. and ms. lynch admitted that the media cast a cloud over the investigation, a meeting that we wouldn't have known about ...

Claims nunes cast a cloud over the issue and claims of collusion during the campaign is building. >> you admit circumstantial case. >> actually no, chuck. i can tell you that the case is more than that. i can't go into the particulars, but there is more than circumstance evidence now. again, i think -- >> you have seencollusion? >> i don't want to go into specifics. there is evidence that is not circumstantial and very much worthy of investigation. >> president trump says he feels quote somewhat vindicated by what nunes told him. questions over whether nunes should have revealed the informatio...

Investigation and so it was dana boente, an obama administration holdover who gave the green light for comey to give this extraordinary statement. that is something that you can is it going to enrage officials at the white house. that will confirm their paranoia about the u.s. government working against them. >> that is a great point. devin nunes said you've cast a cloud over this administration which, again, i don't know the truth of what they will or will not find and in some ways is unnerving enough in the absence of collusion but i was just reminded of this kellyanne conway tweet. "most ho...