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Avenue example? the local authorities couldn't investigate, couldn't do anything about it? >> i think once a president is removed from office, any local authority -- this is not a permanent immunity. >> i'm talking about while in office. >> no. >> nothing could be done. that's your position? >> that is correct. >> thisgument that you are can't even look into if a crime was committed by the president is so far beyond what has ever before been offered. we have guidance memos to or by the olc, the office of legal counsel, one by then solicitor general robert bourque. they say a president can't be...

Removed from office, any local authority -- this is not a permanent immunity. >> i'm talking about while in office. >> no. >> nothing could be done. that's your position? >> that is correct. >> this argument that you are can't even look into if a crime was committed by the president is so far beyond what has ever before been offered. we have guidance memos to or by the olc, the office of legal counsel, one by then solicitor general robert bourque. they say a president can't be indicted. keep in mind, those were all written by lawyers working for presidents. there is one that says, yes, but tha...

Other problem that nooet cateo was on last night that the constitution requires that the principal officers of the executive branch agencies must be senate confirmed officials. >> like rod rosenstein. >> and sally yates in the past. >> traditionally the deputy attorney general if that position were vacant at the justice department the solicitor general has served as acting attorney general. robert bourque when he was assistant general served as acting attorney general when richard nixon fired the attorney general. senate-confirmed people should lead executive branch agencies not a political ap...

James comey, i said that we are all going through a slow motion, multi-month saturday night massacre. when president nixon fired leon jaworski, the special counsel looking into watergate and there was a whole blood bath with the attorney general elliott richardson resigning and deputy attorney general resigning, et cetera, and ultimately robert bourque i believe is the one who fired jaworski, that was called the saturday night massacre for people who don't remember and it was president nixon at the time trying to get away from any accountability from the justice department. president trump has...

And with that i must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent. thank you. [ applause ] >> justice kavanaugh then offered his own take on the bruising confirmation process, and he also addressed concerns about his ability to be impartial while on the bench. >> the senate confirmation process was contentious and emotional. that process is over. my focus now is to be the best justice i can be. i take this office with gratitude and no bitterness. on the supreme court, i will seek to be a force for stability and unity. every american can be assured that i will be an indepe...