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President clinton. the one issued under president clinton in 2000 actually contains a footnote. i'm going to nerd out on you. footnote 36, rachel, which specifically says you can investigate a sitting president. not just by a federal grand jury, but also by congress. and so the department of justice has conceded the point. mr. trump's lawyer has not. >> that, even though you're taking about a footnote there, you're making a very clear point. i was struck also listening to the hearing today that the judges and the attorneys seem to all agree that this is going to end up at the supreme court. if...

Where he found himself. >> i mean, how about we all just learn through the mueller proceedings and all of the legalese that we all had to wade through in terms of the mueller report and the arguments about why the president was not described as having potentially committed a criminal offense, wasn't the whole idea there that mueller and his team accepted the premise from the justice department that the president would not be indicted but that did not preclude them from investigating the president which they did quite robustly. >> in fact, mueller says in his report we're free to investigate a ...