exactly is in control of the independent counsel? can you have this creation that lives outside of our three branches of government that has really -- it's responsible or answerable to no one. conservatives have long criticized it and it was effectively overruled, we say quietly in a 1997 case, an opinion authored by justice scalia. so i should caution people, don't look too closely into that criticism of morrison v. olson as justice kavanaugh indicating that he would withdraw the power of the special counsel. >> so it's not that the president can't be investigated, just conservatives and kavanaugh don't like what that law, which has essentially been overturned, does do. but i want to ask you something about settled law. we'll be hearing over the next few days in these hearings about whether kavanaugh deems things like roe v. wade to be settled law. we use that term a lot on tv. what's it supposed to mean? >> settled law is about the