it last week, do your business or get off the pot. you know? you want to impeach, have at it, man, let s go. now, it polls right up there with skimmed milk, but if you still want to go forward, do it, but either do it or stop whining so we can get back to work, for gosh sakes. there are things we can work on where we have more in common than we don t. things like health care, health insurance and prescription drugs and infrastructure and net neutrality. david: senator, you have to work, your committee, the judiciary committee has on it kamala harris. kamala harris right now politicking in san francisco, i think we can show a live shot, speaking in front of a big international union. she s in favor of impeachment. she, it seems, would rather talk about impeachment than talk about getting stuff done, as you say. well, you know, they re doing
shield against being held accountable for stealing the presidency. it makes no sense. the final point i try to make in my think piece is that, for gosh sakes, we revisit supreme court precedent based on evolving societal norms or else we would still be operating under dred scott or blessy versus ferguson for goodness sakes. if we can reevaluate the wisdom of really horrific supreme court decisions how is it we can t reevaluate the wisdom of an olc memo that does not have the effect of law under present day circumstances? i will tell you having learned from bob mueller when he was my chief of homicide in d.c., i don t think he s going to leave this up to the vagaries of congress, i think he sees this as his problem to deal with and if i can get the approval i predict he will seriously consider indicting the president. i want to say for everybody watching, nobody here is
coming, collusion is coming. it s all coming. we already have campaign finance violations by the president designed to do what? gain unfair advantage in the election. we already have obstruction. before we go back to collusion, we have obstruction in spades with him telling director comey to lay off flynn, and then firing director comey when he wouldn t lay off flynn, and, you know, firing jeff sessions because he wasn t protecting him sufficiently from these investigations and installing whitaker, for gosh sakes, completely unqualified to be acting attorney general. and as a prosecutor, when i see all of this evidence that has simply been reported out publicly, you know, indictments are coming, and i m not sure what the political calculation is for the people who continue to turn a blind eye. but the reality is the precedent says the president himself can t be indicted while he s serving. and i disagree as does lawrence tribe, both
flynn was. he was the national security adviser for gosh sakes. and that s in anybody s book that s a pretty big fish. so i think the messaging that the mueller team put out by saying, you know what, we ve got the national security adviser talking dirty to the russians on the phone and then lying about it to the vice president and lying about it to congress excuse me, to the fbi. we re going to charge him with that and then we re going to we re going to remain mum on everything else he is providing us. i think that is some powerful messaging to everybody else out there that, you know what, they better pay attention to what s going on. they better come in, cooperate and cut their losses. with respect to the memo that i think we re all anxiously awaiting, chris, i ve filed hundreds of these memos in the 30 years i was a federal prosecutor, and i see three distinct possibilities here. one, mueller may say very little because the sentence that flynn is exposed to is only zero to six
capacity. first of all, i agree with all of barbara s observations. when we pull back and look at flynn from 30,000 feet, the way the mueller team has played him makes a lot of sense. here s why. first of all, we all know that we try to work our way from the bottom up, the less significant players to the more significant players. but let s look at who michael flynn was. he was the national security adviser for gosh sakes. and that s in anybody s book that s a pretty big fish. so i think the messaging that the mueller team put out by saying, you know what, we ve got the national security adviser talking dirty to the russians on the phone and then lying about it to the vice president and lying about it to congress excuse me, to the fbi. we re going to charge him with that and then we re going to we re going to remain mum on everything else he is providing us. i think that is some powerful messaging to everybody else out there that, you know what, they better pay attention to what