Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181212:02:10:00
Prevents the indictment and prosecution of a sitting president. for one thing, a sitting president on the way out could get pardoned by the guy who becomes president. we saw that with gerald ford and richard nixon. the framers didn't want a setup where somebody could get a get out of jail free card by arranging a pardon. secondly, there's the problem of the statute of limitations. a lot of the stuff that was done wrong might not be possible to prosecute later the idea that you just stop the clock in the meantime sound good but there's no law to support that. so the whole design of the constitu...