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Would agree to the request to bring bannon back to the committee? >> remember, when steve bannon refused to answer questions he just said i'm not answering them. we had a vote to compel him to come back and answer questions. that vote went down because the republicans opposed it. peter stzok's situation, the fbi rules and he cannot answer questions that involve an ongoing criminal or counter intelligence investigation. the 500 page report from the ig criticized directors comey for doing just that in violation of doj rules. republicans know that. they read that report and know the fbi protocols...

In 1992 a grand jury in the iran contrau case came out just days before. >> in the final days of the campaign the last thing george bush needs is a reminder of the arms for hostages deal with iran. >> a former indictment places bush at a key meeting. >> that was a huge deal. nowadays a key from mueller is that he does have to follow those doj rules or norms if you want to call it that which would appear to include the 2012 memo. because the rules that give mueller his power still say he has to notify the attorney general of key events in the probe. and since sessions accused himself that means...

The head of the executive branch? lately many critics of this president say yes. >> it is, i think constitutional to indict a sitting president. >> the bottom line legal issue is the president is not above the law. >> in my view, a sitting president can lawful be indicted, to say that a president can't be indicted is to say that the president is above the law. >> those are two opinions from two current members of congress. but these questions will not be resolved by anyone's personal opinion. what matters here are the written, legal authorities and there really are two big ones here, the first...

Do those authorities mean? is that the end of it? were those doj rules meant to stop mueller from ever going beyond that memo? what would the author of those original doj rules say? i mean that would be interesting to find out right now. the man who wrote those rules and who served as barack obama's top lawyer at the supreme court, arguing over 30 cases, winning an obamacare case, serving as acting solicitor general, he is here tonight. former acting solicitor general under president obama. thank you for doing this. >> it's such a pleasure, ari. >> if a counsel, a special counsel like mueller....

Because gun violence and gun legislation is the single fire wall issue i believe for the republican party, and as the children from parkland have been so eloquently stating, if we can't change their minds, we need to change their seats. >> chris hurst, thank you for being on the beat tonight. >> thank you for having me. up ahead, a very big question for a very big guest, could bob mueller if ever consider the indictment of a president. i'll talk to the man who actually wrote the rules governing the special counsel. and why chris rock says president trump might work out for real. (vo) do not ...