republicans in congress stay on our side, that s the only real defense they have at this point. rich? i think the core contention in that memo is correct. i don t believe the president can comm obstruction of justice and exercise his lawful powers. he can abuse the lawful powers and that s the subject for an impeachment and not a criminal investigation and i think it s a proversion or constitutional system that you have an interior officer in the executive branch who wants to question the president of the united states on his state of mind. i m not sure we ve ever encountered that before and it s right to resist it for the personal interests and the good of the institution. look, i know the first thing i thought of when i heard this, peggy, was for nixon. for the viewers, let me play the infamous excerpt from frost nixon. so what, in a sense, you re saying there are certain situations, where the president