entirely dependent upon whether the president s base abandons house republicans. a lot of this discussion started when the new york times broke the story about the memo they obtained. one of the people who was on the by line of that report was washington correspondent charlie savage who is joining me now. charlie, take us behind the scentle bit. your team gets their hands on this memo. what s the first thing do you in reporting it out? reporter: after we confirm it s real, we dct it. we re trying toerstand what it is. it s making these sweeping arguments from top to bottom, not only did trump not violate the obstruction laws as a matter of these technical parsing of the statute or their arguments about the facts, but it also is backing all that up with this sweeping view that the president yields wields exclusive authority over the justice department from top to bot to, n he order any case opened, any case shut downed. he can pardon anybody and shut down any case and that means