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Your care. we've known each other since law school. we've been friendly since law school. your devotion to this. respectfully i believe you're talking about a statute that has not been in place since 1999. secondly, special counsel system i've specifically written about multiple times. thirdly, if there were some kind of protection for cause protection or some other kind of protection that were different from the old independent counsel statute, i've said that i would keep an open mind about that. so i have not said anything to rule that out. finally, i've reaffirmed repeatedly or i've applied...

Of course it is. the judicial review wasn't even invented in marbury versus madison. in federalist 78, we say marbury created it. the review exists there. so it's a corrected application. but the reason i'm hesitating -- >> let me bring this back to the current context in why all of this is of concern to me and relevant. >> i didn't finish my answer. >> a series of public states resent about your enthusiasm for overturning morrison and you're not going to comment on that here. you won't answer that question here. you have a recent decision as a d.c. circuit judge where you forcefully articulat...

Same concept. >> single president means the president is the chief law enforcement officer of the united states and should have all of the power of the executive branch including ability to fire at will, which is at issue. the ability to fire at will, a special prosecutor, correct? >> i have taken as a given in all -- >> that's a yes or no. is that -- >> i want to be real clear. i'm going to repeating myself for the tenth time. i've repeatedly said that humphries executor is the precedent that allows independent agencies that i have a employed time after time, that's point one. point two i sai...

Historical practice, which under the supreme court's precedence makes a big difference, as you know, of course. so i referred -- that's why i concluded in the cfpb that the bureau was unconstitutionally structured. the remedy was not to get rid of the agency. the remedy was to make the person removable at will. >> so humphries executor was about whether or not the ftc head could be removable at will or have a good cause removal protection. >> right. president roosevelt wanted to fire humphrey, who was a republican -- >> will you state that it's well-reasoned, well-decided long settled law? >> ...