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Special prosecutor is going to talk to steve bannon, who you spent a lot of time talking to. The Special Prosecutor has been talking to many of your sources in this book. Has the Special Prosecutor reached out to you to talk to you about either the firing of the Special Prosecutor or any other elements of this story . He has not. And if the Special Prosecutor does want to interview you, would you cooperate with that . Good question, and i dont know the answer. But i think that the answer is, yes, because i have nothing to hide. Everything i know is in the book. What about the sources that are ...

>> bill: the bork regulation -- at the time the lawyer who fired cox, the independent counsel investigating president nixon. he asked the attorney general to fire him and the attorney general didn't and quit. he asked the solicitor general to fire him bork. he fired him. as the temporary head of the justice department issued a regulation. as long as we investigate certain crimes the president will leave us alone. such a regulation does not regulate the president. only the constitution or the congress or overwhelming public opinion can regulate the president. can the president fire bob mueller?...

>> well, he can certainly try. we know that in fact, the president did a version of this when he fired sally yates early on in the administration, reached down far enough to find someone that would do it and got it done and i assume that's what he'll do. i think jennifer is right. ultimately, you can't make this all go away. he cannot escape accountability sooner or later. >> jill, did you have to consider this, that the possibility of nixon actually getting someone to completely not just fire the special prosecutor but disband it? >> well, we actually were abolished. if you remember the headl...

Abolished. if you remember the headlines on the day, the president fired cox and abolished the office. we were able to go on for two reasons, one is they didn't actually borrow from the office so we showed up on sunday and monday but by tuesday we were reappointed and a new special prosecutor was appointed. the public pressure forced the president to reverse course and appoint a new special proos cser and allow us to continue. it is true it could end up badly, though. >> jill wine banks gets a very important last word on this subject tonight. thank you-all for joining us tonight. really apprec...

This investigation. you know, i was talking about it before. if you go back and look at what happened after richard nixon fired archibald cox in 1973. across party lines uniting to defend the rule of law. barry goldwater was the republican presidential nominee before richard nixon. the president who fired cox. the aba held an emergency meeting to condemn the action. aflcio condemned it and called for impeachment. not saying we're anywhere near that today, but i'm saying president trump has i think absorbed the lesson that republicans and congress are willing to accept almost any infringement o...