here. never before has there been allegations that a sitting president with private individuals and using levers of power sought to fundamentally subvert the democratic republic and electoral system, and frankly, if that fact pattern arises again, i think it would be scary if there were not some mechanism to reach that criminally. >> and in your brief, you raised some sort of lesser immunity potentially applying. do you want to speak to that? >> i do. we think it does not come into play here, but the point is that in some sort of more challenging cases, it might be that where a president is operating under extraordinary time pressure has to make a very difficult sort of national security-type decision, and do i go in commit this kind of, do we ord ear drone strike under these circumstances, you know, a president will have a