the oval office where the president says to them, now a lot of pressure is off me now that i got rid of comey with this whole russia deal. >> well, look, if it wasn't on his mind, if it wasn't a motivation for him legal or illegal, right or wrong, it was clearly in his mind about why he wanted to get rid of comey. >> again, you're acting as if that's not a constitutional right if that was, in fact, what was in his mind. again, that's speculation. but i think that that's what we have to be clear here. i have to look at what the law is as the evidence exists and what the law is. and when you get to the article 2 issue, it's a very serious moment. >> right. >> constitutionally for our country if a president's decision making on what's called inferior office -- that's not in a pejorative way. it's what the constitution and rules and regulations actually say. >> it does. >> to say you can then cross-examine, so to speak, the president -- any president -- on that decision, very dangerous and exactly the reason we have separation of power. >> you suggest you should never do it, would you? >> never do what? >> would you suggest that you should never question a president's actions with respect to an inferior officer ever? >> i think it raises -- i think the constitutional hurdle that you have to cross over to get