everything they can possibly do. there has to be actual evidence of a law being broken. there is evidence of a law broken. what is your best evidence? there are two pieces of this. first, obstruction of justice. firing the f.b.i. director. rod rosenstein is the one who made that recommendations. then he appointed that is not true. he went on tv and said regardless of the recommendation he was going to fire him and he fired him because of the russia investigation. melissa: let s address that. a lot of people say it s article ii of the constitution. he can fire whoever he wants. melissa: those are his executive powers. but not with criminal intent. what he did is with criminal intent how do you know that? he said on tv i fired him because of the russia investigation. he said there is not a [overtalk] there is not a single democrat in the senate that would vote to confirm mr. comey. every single one of them would vote against him. it has nothing to do
in a meeting early march, mueller threatened to hall the president before a grand jury. doud responded, this isn t some game. you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. the brush back appeared to have effect. the following week they dick kateed thdictatedthe questions . alan dir sh wits said based on the questions, president trump should never sit for an interview. i would take advantage of the questions, and i would submit answers in writing to almost all of them, and then make objections to the others based on article ii of the constitution, and then tell the american public, i have answered all of these questions. why are they trying to bring me into a grand jury? there was another shakeup in
have any right to say that he cannot answer questions if he takes the fifth. also joining us right now by skype is professor alan dershowitz. you ve had a question to look over the questions. a, what do you make of the fact that this has leaked out so quickly, and what does it tell you about what mueller is looking and needs from the president? everything leaks. we should assume everything is going to leak. i think there s only one series of questions that caught me by surprise. everything else was entirely predictable. the questions about some of his financial dealings before the campaign and before he became president. here s the president s problem. he can refuse to answer questions based on executive privilege that focus on reasons why he engaged in activities that are covered by article ii of the constitution. the problem is those are the easy questions and he can answer those whereas the hardest questions, the one about his financial dealings, he has no executive privilege, s
and would you consider a small-scale chlorine attack sufficient to launch additional strikes? right now i ll just tell you we re in close consultation with our allies. we review all the evidence all the time. it is difficult, as you know, to get evidence out of syria. but right now we have no additional attacks planned. as far as the legal authority under the article ii of the constitution, we believe the president has every reason to defend vital american interests. what were some of the targeting considerations or difficulties involved in going after chemical facilities? how long did the operation take the plan? and last year s strikes were described as proportional, moderate. how would you describe this year s in contrast to that? we chose these particular
basics. article i of the constitution gives all legislative powers to congress. the house and senate work to create laws, raise revenue working as an independent branch of government that does not answer to the president. i m going to get to the white house in a moment. but let s go to article iii of the constitution which creates the federal judiciary with the supreme court sitting at the top. it interprets laws and treats treaties independently of congress and the executive deciding cases based solely on constitutional law. let s go back to article ii of the constitution which establishes the presidency. the president has executive power. he s charged with enforcing the laws that are passed by congress serving as the commander in chief of the armed forces. and making treaties with the senate s approval. while he can veto laws made by congress, congress can override the president with a 2/3