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There are discussions of masters out there that they have not asked me to open an investigation. >> there have been discussed of matters out there. they have not asked me. but it is plausible that he would not have known. especially on the issue of metadata from members of congress being caught up as part of an investigation? >> so, in this case, although he was very clearly parsing his words there and there were certainly some kind of conversations that perhaps had gone on. it is plausible that he didn't -- that attorney general barr didn't know about these specific subpoenas simply based on ...

Law, the supreme court precedent in cases such as clinton versus jones, united states versus richard nixon, established those principles, in the official capacity, so the president has authority under the constitution, the executive power under the constitution, the president as established by the frameworks of the constitution is not above the law, no one is above the law in the united states of america. >> a practical matter, who investigates the president? >> as a practical matter, traditionally, as i've written about, when there is an allegation of wrongdoing by someone in the executive br...

When there's a conflict of interest in the justice department process. >> it's been settled law for 83 years now. early on you said that you would be willing to offer views on long settled cases. can you just tell me if humphrey executor was correctly decided? it's long settled precedented, yes. the key different here is whether you will say if something is rightly decided. i'm struck about this, concerned about it because in your own opinion, in your dissent in phh, you went into a long criticism. you laid out a strong articulation of this unitary executive theory, the theory that the preside...

Request for preserving documents, that request came from scott schools. when acting deputy ag dana boente had to let the higher ups at the department know he was being called as a witness in the special counsel's investigation, that notice went straight to scott schools. look at the handwritten notes in some of these documents. took notes to scott schools. provided to scott schools. scott schools, scott schools, scott schools. for the past year and a half scott schools seems kind of a guardrail at the justice department, protecting investigations and the work that the investigators do, try to ...

Enjoyed, if i can use the word earn joyed, exercised his power in this area and something you see he gets quite a lot of accolades for it. some criticism as well, but something the president with the stroke of his pen is able to do and he's doing it. craig? >> on the screen there, the folks he's pardoned so far. matt, talk about this process. seen the president commute this, pardoned some other folk. talked about pardoning rod blagojevich and martha stewart as well. both worked with the president on that "apprentice" show. why not go through the justice department process, matt? how much shoul...