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Legal experts, including me, i'm open on the question of whether a sitting president can be indicted. i'm not clear. i recognize as i must that the office of legal counsel issued two memoranda saying it will be doj policy that you can't do it but if they did it, hypothetically, law school classroom, i'm not kwinconvince court wouldn't say it's okay.pu gun and shoot cabinet member, they won't say we'll wait until he gets out of office. >> that's practical versus academically. say he bludgeons ten people with an ax, are you going to contend you can't indict him. they would and you have the other...

Of lawyer or defender. how do you feel about your department of justice at this point when a person who is completely outside of the government, who was not involved even in the campaign can come in and make a decision about whether his boss, essentially, the president will be prosecuted. i think this speaks to our entire justice system at this point whether it was loretta lynch meeting bill clinton or a tarmac or a.g. barr is he really impartial. is he for the people or someone to keep the president out of trouble and hot water. >> it's changed over the years, hasn't it? >> yes. if we look ba...

Two memoranda are not binding in court. you can sort of argue this both ways. on the one hand if he went into it saying you have these olc memos then he's not going to engage in normal prosecutorial function and then the bar, we above you would decide whether the olc memos block prosecution. it starts getting complicated. >> it seems to me that mueller was very clear that he didn't just say legal counsel, he said it's their understanding of the u.s. constitution that he really was constitutionally kept from indi indicting. he made it sound more grandu rergrandure. >> i'm so glad you made that ...

Witch hunt and the attorney general is asking people to look into the or xwhigins of this investigation. he's saying they had important work to do here and what they revealed was important in itself. >> here is the question for robert mueller. and i think it manhatthasn't be answered. if he accepted the justice department guidelines that you can't ib ditndict a sitting president, why didn't he alert the american people to that finding months before his report came out so that we would not be looking as the country has been -- or had been for some sort of verdict on his guilt or innocence? >> r...

Republicans that voiced objection. the bill went to the senate and came back. none of us had seen it. we didn't know what was in it. it had 2 or $3 billion more than the first version and now we had to accept what speaker pelosi was going to do and put it on the floor on a friday after everybody went out of town and pass it by consent. that's not what the american people want. >> the white house already signed off. >> sure but they wanted the relief they want in place in florida and puerto rico and other parts of the country but you shouldn't pass legislation. you shouldn't pass a bill that's ...