Understood that they have to follow the department of justice guidelines but it s true there are trap doors in those doj guidelines. that might mean there is a way to indict a sitting president. should the special counsel conclude that the extraordinary circumstances of any particular decision would render compliance inappropriate so the president could inn theory ask deputy attorney general rod rosenstein for a hall pass to ignore that olc memo about not indict ago sitting president and, by the way, that s not the only track door. and on the office of legal
Is still in office, and it s generally understood that the special counsel has to follow department of justice guidelines but it s also true that there are trap doors in those doj guidelines. trap doors that might mean actually there is a way to indict a sitting president. quote, should the special counsel conclude that the extraordinary circumstances of any particular decision would render compliance inappropriate, he or she may consult directly with the attorney general. so, if robert mueller feels the state of the russia investigation rises to the level of extraordinary circumstances, he could in theory at least ask deputy attorney general rod rosenstein for a hall pass to ignore that olc memo about not indicting a sitting president and, by the way, that s not the only trap door. there s another one snack dab on the office of legal counsel s home page.
Trump s money man for decades and now he is forced to sit with federal prosecutors and answer everything they want to know for as long as they want to question him. can we just ponder that for a moment? can you imagine? now, there is a question about what the end game is. robert mueller is probably going to write a report that will go to congress regarding impeachme impeachment. the southern district is bound by doj guidelines. so no matter what they find about trump s criminality, they can t charge him with a crime. so that s the question. right? this is joyce vance, who was a u.s. attorney down in alabama, we have her on our show. she says you don t give trump org cfo weisselberg and david pecker immunity just to prosecute michael cohen. this is a big question. why did they get immunity to prosecute cohen? the other question is who is executive-2? right now we know everyone basically who s floating around this world on the tape. it s cohen talking to the president. i m going to rol
To perform its constitutionally assigned functions. the question of whether a serving president can be indicted came up again this week with president trump playing an unindict role in a pair of felonies to which his former personal lawyer, michael cohen, pled guilty. the president s lawyers would have you believe that the olc s opinion is a hard and fast rule and that therefore, the special counsel robert mueller can not indict president trump while he is still in office and it s generally understood that the special counsel has to follow department of justice guidelines but it s also true that there are trap doors in those doj guidelines. trap doors that might mean actually there is a way to indict a sitting president. should the special counsel conclude that the extraordinary circumstances of any particular decision would render compliance
Federal prosecutors and answer everything they want to know for as long as they want to question him. can we just ponder that for a moment? can you imagine? now, there is a question about what the end game is. robert mueller is probably going to write a report that will go to congress regarding impeachment. the southern district is bound by doj guidelines. so no matter what they find about trump s criminality, they can t charge him with a crime. so that s the question. right? this is joyce vance, who was a u.s. attorney down in alabama, we have her on our show. she says you don t give trump org cfo weisselberg and david pecker immunity just to prosecute michael cohen. this is a big question. why did they get immunity to prosecute cohen? the other question is who is executive-2? right now we know everyone basically who s floating around this world on the tape. it s cohen talking to the president. i m going to roll in weisselberg. pecker is our friend pecker. there s an executive-2 in