Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190306:18:07:00
Under this office of legal counsel guidance about not indicting a president. state attorney generals are not subject to that sort of thing. >> absolutely. the state is not -- to the extent it is something that is controlling for federal prosecutors, it's because it is within the department of justice, a memo that controls possibly what they can or cannot do. it does not control what state prosecutors do at all. now, that doesn't mean that if state prosecutors did indict the president, wouldn't be subject to court battles. it would. >> right. would a judge sort of look at that and say, but i kn...