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Both elliot richardson who was then the attorney general and mr. rickleshouse who was the deputy, both refused to fire the special prosecutor. >> right. >> but one of the people who has really gotten a bad rap here is robert bourque because he came in and ultimately fired cox. but it was actually a plan among richardson, ruckleshouse and bourque that bourque would fire cox in order that nixon could not insert his own person from the white house into the department of justice. so this is one of these little unknown stories that i learned from ruckleshouse a number of years ago. but, again, it w...

Special prosecutor. >> right. >> but one of the people who has really gotten a bad rap here is robert bourque because he came in and ultimately fired cox. but it was actually a plan among richardson, ruckleshouse and bourque that bourque would fire cox in order that nixon could not insert his own person from the white house into the department of justice. so this is one of these little unknown stories that i learned from ruckleshouse a number of years ago. but, again, it was the same concern that the department of justice maintain its independence and be able to basically carry out its goal of...

Association? >> nobody. it's a liberal activist group that pretends to rate judges objectively. and all they're really doing is giving cover to democrats in the senate that want an excuse to vote against the nominees. they hold conservative nominees to a different standard. the senate republicans should ignore what they're saying. >> they did that against clarence thomas and sandbags robert bourque, calling him unqualified, which was a scandal, because he was so qualified. >> i think it's ridiculous. >> the larger picture here is that republicans are confirming judges really fast. >> right. th...

The special prosecutor statute says the prosecutor has to be fired by the attorney general but the question is would he do it or be like elliott richardson, nixon's attorney general who resigned rather than firing the special prosecutor and then it was turtles all the way down until robert bourque carried out the act. if the new attorney general did fire mueller, would that be an impeachable offense, basically would the congress conclude that the president had ordered the attorney general to fire the special prosecutor with the corrupt motive of obstructing justice which is an impeachable offe...

Important investigation. >> yes, it is twisted in the way you described. the question of whether it's a constitutional crisis is a really interesting one. i persuaded by legal scholars who say a constitutional crisis is when the ordinary institutions don't have an answer. eventually robert bourque fired the special pros kurter. in the end as long as rosenstein is not a subject of the investigation it seems like democrats want him to stay. there is this d.o.j. regulation that say you're the subject of ainvestigation you have to resign. that could take you to ra ched brand who's the number three...