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Oversee trump, would they really provide any layer of protection? >> not really. i was a special counsel investigating george herbert walker bush on allegations he tampered with bill clinton's passport files in the run-up to their election. we were still subject to political criticism that we were part of, you know, some witch-hunt or other language that you always hear with respect to these things. but the theory of an independent counsel, special counsel, is that you, as the attorney general, can't really be investigating your own boss. so here we don't have that situation. we don't have a s...

>> the way it is is when the justice department believes that it cannot with integrity or without some sense of compromise conduct the investigation itself, it goes to an independent council which what i was to investigate that. i investigated with respect to her better walker bush tampering with the passport files. under my tenure, we were appointed by a court. so the independent counsel statute provided far mechanism about which the court of appeals, the three-judge panel appointed. the three judge panel appointed us. they took it completely out of the hands of the justice department. the ju...

Of the justice department. >> michael, it's my understanding you served in the capacity of special council. i want i to describe what exactly that means and how it would work. >> the way it is is when the justice department believes that it cannot with integrity or without some sense of compromise conduct the investigation itself, it goes to an independent council which what i was to investigate that. i investigated with respect to her better walker bush tampering with the passport files. under my tenure, we were appointed by a court. so the independent counsel statute provided far mechanism a...

It's 501(c)3 because of their speech. it's what nixon did where you have a private contractor hired in 2006 that looked at taxpayers in 20 states including asking political affiliation. things like that never became political scandals. in this case people applying for a special dispensation for the tax code. even though they are clearly political p.a.c.s. that has to be a part of the investigation but won't be because congress is grandstanding to take down the president. >> there's a category here you wouldn't call it scandal, you call it bureaucratic problem, i'm not coming up with names. i'm...