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Advisers to the president cannot be forced to testify before congress. it says this was first enunciated as a policy by william rehnquist when he was then a justice department official before he went on to become the chief justice of the supreme court. and the legal opinion, this 16 page, 15 page legal opinion has this quote in it. let me read it. it says subjecting a senior presidential adviser to the congressional subpoena power would be akin to requiring the president himself to appear before congress on matters relating to performance of his constitutionally assigned executive functions. w...

>> our goal was to look at these folks before they started using medical marijuana and then three months in, six months in, and a year. primarily to look at frontal executive functions because that's really the big question. >> that question -- how does medical marijuana impact brain function longer term? >> i want you to name the blocks of color for me as quickly as you can. >> before that they start medicating, patients will take cognitive tests. and here's what's revolutionary. they're going to have their brains scanned to chart the change. for the first time, we will see what your brain lo...

Massachusetts as it turns out is the perfect sort of place for this sort of study because they just legalized marijuana. gruber's goal is to study new patients who have never used cannabis. >> our goal was to look at these folks before they started using medical marijuana and then three months in, six months in, and then a year. primarily to look at frontal executive functions because that's really the question. >> that question -- how does medical marijuana impact brain function longer term? >> i want you to name the blocks of color for me as quickly as you can. >> patients will take cognitiv...

Patients who have never used cannabis. >> our goal was to look at these folks before they started using medical marijuana and then three months in, six months in, and a year. primarily to look at frontal executive functions because that's really the question. >> that question -- how does medical marijuana impact brain function longer term? >> i want you to name the blocks of color for me as quickly as you can. >> patients will take cognitive tests and here's what's revolutionary. they're going to have their brains scanned to chart the change. for the first time, we will see what your brain loo...

This study because they just legalized medical marijuana. gruber's goal is to study new patients who have never used cannabis. >> our goal was to look at these folks before they started using medical marijuana and then three months in, six months in, and then a year. primarily to look at frontal executive functions because that's really the question. >> that question -- how does medical marijuana impact brain function longer term? >> i want you to name the blocks of color for me as quickly as you can. >> before and after medicating, patients will take cognitive tests and here's what's revoluti...