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Instead of doing that, we appointed a special counsel whose job was to find crimes. whether they were crimes or not, we still don't know. collusion is not a crime. obstruction of justice may not be a crime. if the president engages in it as part of his constitutional authority. so, i still take the position that it was a mistake to appoint a special counsel, that an investigation committee would have been better. the fact the president quotes me is not something i control. >> professor dershowitz, do you want to see the president order rod rosenstein to fire bob mueller? >> that would be a mis...

It does president seem like a complicated answer. they were asked to sign ndas or they weren't. >> right. so far the white house is not willing to acknowledge on the record that these things exist. i asked for a copy to be able to review a copy and they wouldn't provide one. but several current and former officials who either signed copies or saw copies of the agreement clearly described something that was very broad, had a lot of caveats in it because there are a loot of statutes that protect federal employee's ability to speak, basically to exercise their first amendment rights. there are wh...

It seems like don mcgahn is right, it's not enforceable and they are not intending to enforce it, but it does exist and they had people sign it. >> is this legal, is there a compelling government purpose for staff to sign a nondisclosure agreement? it sounds like they were more to make the president feel better. >> well, anderson, they're not legal. unlike when mr. trump was occupying trump tower, in the oval office, the united states constitution applies to agreements that he compels his employees to sign. and under the first amendment, there is an exception for classified information, attorn...

A further sign the president is trying to run the united states government the way he ran his business, we're learning he made his white house staff sign nondisclosure agreements. there is a catch, these ndas were drafted by white house counsel don mcgahn and were described to cnn as watered down unenforceable agreements. the president accord to be a source was told early on it wasn't a workable idea for federal employees. he wouldn't let it go when leaks came fast and furious when he took office. the when the story first broke in the washington post the white house called it completely false....

Financial penalty if they violate it in the government. it's not that simple. but the president was determined to impose something on his staff that he thought might deter them from either submitting to interviews or writing tell-all books that would be embarrassing to him. and so this is what they came up with. >> do you know more about the details of the documents? were there financial penalties associated? can somebody, you know, if kellyanne conway leaves, can she write a book if she's one of the people who signed this thing? >> from what -- everything i've heard from the people who saw it...