questions? what would your strategy be trying to get him to try to get at some state of mind issues when it came to the decision to fire flynn and fire comey and those folks? well, i think i d litigate it because i m not it s not clear i think the broad executive power basis that they seem to be and i agree with what carol said, you really have to take everything rudy giuliani says with many, many grains of salt, but let s say they re not they have said to mueller, we will not answer questions on obstruction of justice, that is part of the president s unitary executive power he can do whatever he wants to do with and legally he can t obstruct justice, that s a litigation issue and robert mueller probably recognizes he wants to see what he might be able to get out of short of going through the lengthy process of litigating a grand jury subpoena but i believe mueller would think that he legally has the better end of
sanctions at the time he did it. which would put the president right in the middle of what flynn ended up pleading guilty to as a felony criminal charge for which he is now awaiting sentencing. that seems like a story, right? especially since the white house waited 18 days to fire flynn after the justice department warned the white house about those conversations he was having with the russians and flynn potentially being compromised by the russian government. i mean, if the president knew all along all about those conversations that flynn had had and that flynn was lying to everyone else about, well, like i say, that s a story. tell me more. here s just one more. there s been a bunch of attention so far, including here on this show to the very first excerpts of the book that were leaked last week, which included this amazing line from the president s previous russia lawyer john dowd. he is quoted in woodward s new book saying, quote, i wish i could persuade you, talking to
that seems like a story, right? especially since the white house waited 18 days to fire flynn after the justice department warned the white house about those conversations he was having with the russians and flynn potentially being compromised by the russian government. i mean, if the president knew all along all about those conversations that flynn had had and that flynn was lying to everyone else about, well, like i say, that s a story. tell me more. here s just one more. there s been a bunch of attention so far, including here on this show, to the very first excerpts of the book that were leaked last week, which included this amazing line from the president s previous russia lawyer john dowd. he is quoted in woodward s new book saying, quote, i wish i could persuade you, talking to the president. quote, don t testify. it s either that or an orange jumpsuit. you have seen that quote everywhere. i know john dowd today put out a statement today saying i never said orange jumpsuit. bu
li lied. last year he said i had to fire flynn because he lied. and about separating migrant children from their parents i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change the law. that s their law. i said it before and i ll say it again and again and again. separating migrant families is actually a policy of the trump administration, a huge part of jeff session s zero tolerance of illegal immigration. jeff, let me start with you. let me get your broad sense of what happened yesterday on the white house law, what that says about what the president is thinking and what he s p prioritizing policy-wise at this
president, but rather he s investigating to impeach. that is an unconstitutional position for him to be in. he cannot issue a grand jury subpoena for purposes of impeachment. that is an illegitimate and unconstitutional use of the grand jury power. and it seems to me that if he does want to issue a subpoena, the president has an extremely strong constitutional position that that subpoena is illegitimate from the very beginning. example, among the 49 or 50 questions are questions like what were you thinking when you decided to fire flynn or fire comey? why did you fire comey or flynn? did it have anything to do with the russian investigation? all of those questions, intrude on the core functions of the president. they involve executive privilege. article 2 privilege to fire anybody in the executive branch. he s asking questions about pardons and possible discussions of pardons while he