other words, if courts were to agree with that analysis, that would preclude state attorneys general as well as federal prosecutors from return an indictment. >> so in other words the state attorney general is not bound by the rule not to indict the president, but it would obviously appear before a court and that court may say it doesn't matter who did it, it's not constitutional. >> yeah, that's exactly right and also i think one other thing worth pointing out, the way prosecutors work is they're not looking for trap doors in policies. they are trying to figure out what the law is, what the facts and the evidence are and what the law allows. so, if a state attorney general looking at this on the merits concludes in their office that the olc got it right, that it would be unconstitutional to indict a sitting president, they're not going to go forward just because they're not bound by the olc opinion. on the other hand, if they in good faith looked at the issues and concluded that they think the olc got it wrong and that it is constitutional to indict a sitting president, then