says he cannot indict a 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
about flynn s phone calls with then russian ambassador and if they discussed sanctions during the transition. all right. the decision to fire flynn was never fully explained by the white house if he was fired for lying, why did it take donald trump two weeks to oust him. and in more recent memory, the alleged offer of a pardon by john doud is going to be investigated. the next topic is james comey. some key questions about comey. the january 27th, 2017, dinner at the white house when comey says the president asked him to take a loyalty preblej. and the dinner when comey says the president effectively asked him to drop the investigation into michael flynn. he wants to know what the president meant during the interview with lester holt when he said this. and, in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story.
this investigation trying to obstruct thissings have. and if you remember this tweet that trump wrote, that hooesaid whereby wrote that tweet. this is december 3rd of the past year. john dowd may have been he said i wrote that tweet. the tweet said i had to fire flynn because he lied to the fbi. because he lied to the fbi. that s not what trump claimed before. it s not a crime to tlie vice president. but it is a crime to lie to the fbi. so when the tweet says he lied to the fbi. that s why he fired him. that means trump knew, at least evidence from thus tweet. so did comey, with his notes and go back to his published testimony before the senate. bottom of page five and top of
this investigation trying to obstruct the investigation of flynn. and that s also important because you remember this tweet that trump wrote that john dowd i wrote that tweet. this is december 3rd of the past year. maybe a reason john dowd is no longer the president s lawyer because john dowd he said i wrote that tweet. the tweet said, i had to fire flynn. because he lied to the fbi. because he lied to the fbi. now, that is not what trump ever claimed before, but it is he said he lied to the vice president. that s what was the claim. it s not a crime to lie to the vice president, but it is a crime to lie to the fbi. when the tweet says he lied to the fbi and that s why i fired him, it means that trump knew at least as evidence from this tweet. now, so did trump did comey with his notes, he says and go back to his published testimony before the senate. on the bottom of page 5 and the top of page 6, comey says from
that the president has to fire comey. he had every write to fire flynn. suppose they say what were you thinking when you fired comey? what were you chilling when you fired flynn? sean: what dined of question is that? these are the kind of stupid questions that could be asked. this is a perjury trap. plain and simple. it is nonsense. this is absolutely outrageous, it should end right now. sean: here s the question i have, because i m sure robert mueller does want to question the president. professor? yeah. sean: i would advise him not to. i don t have your experience. to me it s a trap. written questions. written questions. sean: joe, one second. hang on, professor. here s the problem. the special counsel has the power to put him in front of a grand jury without a lawyer. so he has some leverage. what i would suggest and the president should might consider this is if he is asked a question why did you fire comey, his answer is