public, not to protect the person of the president or the former president, and the person who s in a very good position to know whether the republic is being protected is the sitting president. that does give biden, you know, constitutional legal power to say, look, i think it is in the interests of the united states of america. it s not about donald trump really that we find what happened on january the 6th and get to the bottom of this investigation, and certainly democrats would support that. now, listen, that s a very good point she s making. is executive privilege about protecting the man or woman or the republic? it s always been about protecting the presidency in communications within the presidency, and remember that james madison, the architect of our constitution made the point that the legislature, not the president predominates in our system. yes, we have three equal branches. we learned that in high school, but really the framers of the constitution saw the legislatur
most right now. well, the framers of the constitution saw the conversion of government into a for profit enterprise as the essential offense against the constitution. they wanted the president to be focused in an undivided way, and in a loyal way, on the interests of the american people, not on the private business interests of the president, and his family, and his friends. and so this is in the constitution, in the emoluments clauses. i think that the mueller report, and the mueller investigation were very limited in their scope, and remember, that president trump said, if mueller looked at his finances, he would blow up the entire investigation, which tells us precisely where we need to go. we ve got to follow the money. and every day now, we are confronted with news, about how the president has indeed converted the government of the united states into an instrument of self enrichment. he has been mixing the public interest with the private interest of the trump organization.