Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170119:08:57:00
Department to stop or start investigations. but, you know, that's not written in code anywhere. it's not written in rule. it's enforced because attorneys general and fbi directors have followed that standard and the one time when it wasn't in our history, during the middle of the watergate scandal when president nixon ordered the attorney general to stop an investigation it led to the resignation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general and you have to hope that's what would happen here if president trump were to try something like that. >> you tweeted earlier today about doj et...