Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171124:23:45:00
Derail a judicial process. that's the point of a pardon. but if you are firing the fbi director to end an investigation, and that is your purpose. if he said, for example, i am firing the fbi director because i want to derail an investigation. >> that would not be a crime. >> we'll agree to disagree. >> let's assume the following. let's assume the president said, forget with the filibuster. i am ordering the investigation to stop. i am the president. the head of the executive branch. thomas jefferson did that. many other presidents have done that. you don't even have to have an attorney genera...