reach out and tell you your status as part of negotiating with you or calling you to a grand jury or interviewing you. before i get to john dean, quickly, when actors say what s my motivation, why? i ve been thinking why jay sec cue lo would go on the circuit and say this is the message that i m trying to drive. and i think really what they re trying to do is frying to say that the president isn t under investigation as far as they know. that s what they re trying to say. don t they drive home the message that the president is under investigation just by the it s called hanging a lantern on it. exactly. john dean, you ve been in the white house before. you ve been around. when you don t want something to be out there in the ethos, you don t give it oxygen. you shut up about it, don t respond to it. that s the general rule. we ve got a situation here, don, where the justice department really doesn t have the power to indict a sitting president. so they might be driving the
my motivation, why? i ve been thinking why jay sec cue lo would go on the circuit and say this is the message that i m trying to drive. and i think really what they re trying to do is frying to say that the president isn t under investigation as far as they know. that s what they re trying to say. don t they drive home the message that the president is under investigation just by the it s called hanging a lantern on it. exactly. john dean, you ve been in the white house before. you ve been around. when you don t want something to be out there in the ethos, you don t give it oxygen. you shut up about it, don t respond to it. that s the general rule. we ve got a situation here, don, where the justice department really doesn t have the power to indict a sitting president. so they might be driving the point home right now and starting to lay the base for it that they don t think the special counsel should be even snooping around these areas if they are beginning to target a