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Even more emphatically. "the president cannot be liable to arrest, prison, or detention while he is in the dirs charsch his office nor can he be investigated, indicted or otherwise subjected to criminal process." "nor can he be investigate"? wait a second. now, d"? wait a second. now, again, the case, they're making this claim specifically in the context of this subpoena to the mazars accounting official to get president trump's tax returns and tie this argument specifically to that one subpoena. "because the mazars subpoena attempts to criminally investigate a sitting president, it is unconst...

That, though, what really ended up being the big news in that story today is the filing that the president's lawyers made on his behalf defending him against the threat of his tax returns being released by this subpoena. in this case, the legal case made by the president's lawyers was so radical, and, indeed, so potentially historic, it is literally on the front page of "the new york times" right now. "trump lawyers argue he cannot be criminally investigated." and that is actually what the president claimed today in federal court in new york. "the president cannot be subject to the criminal pr...

That subpoena was not served on donald trump. it was served on the accounting firm mazars, which is prepared those tax returns and has copies of them. the manhattan district attorney is conducting an investigation into potential criminal wrongdoing by donald trump and his company in the hush money payments to stormy daniels in the last month of the presidential campaign, which federal prosecutors in new york called a criminal conspiracy against the united states, which was designed to affect the election. the president's lawyers don't point to a single line in the constitution to support their...

The president says because a sitting president cannot be indicted, which is a theory, not a precedent, he can't even be investigated and he can even be subjected to criminal process. even robert mueller disagreed with that. he said absolutely a president can be investigated because you might want to charge others around him like members of the trump organization or you can charge the president after he leaves office, so i think that on procedurally and on the merits, this is going to fail. which brings up the question, why does he bring this up in the first place, and i think it's most likely ...

Tribe in a moment, actually filed a lawsuit saying the president cannot -- is not subject to criminal process, which is something richard nixon would have liked to know when he was complying with criminal process in a subpoena. and the fact of the action that we're now seeing from the acting director of national intelligence, that he is behaving it seems as if the president cannot be investigated. >> yeah. let's make a distinction, lawrence, between an i.g. investigation and the president's being subjected to criminal process. i think the issue as to whether he can be subjected to criminal pro...