senate would ever move on impeaching the president. what would the articles of impeachment say? what would the inindictment be? the fact that the public has moved in this direction is significant. i would expect this to occur only after the president fired mueller, if he does. that s interesting. frankly, impeachment is a plilal process and it doesn t look like the republican party was at all interested in even looking at the issue. it would have to be partisan otherwise it would divide the country. she s not on board with it necessarily unless there s a bipartisan effort. would this idea of impeachment, however, be something that the democrats latch on to, leading into the mid terms? could it hurt them? i don t think it s a smart move unless you have the basz
in inindictment that is something that would be all consuming. past justice departments including going back to president clinton have said you cannot constitutionally indict a sitting president. because the president is so busy with dealing with the matters of the country that it will suck up all of his band width. it would make it difficult for him to run the country. that goes back to the clinton administration and back to the nixon administration where the justice department said you can t indict. however, a subpoena is very different. a subpoena is not as all consuming as indictment. there are historic precedents for subpoenaing a president. if mueller were to attempt to subpoena president trump i expect to see legal battle. it would prolong the investigation. i don t think there is a clear cut answer. i think the judge would look at how intrusive and burdensome it is, the importance of getting the information and making a decision based on the facts.
mayor to cancel the meeting and schedule at a later date for safety concerns. clark s case and the attorney general not to charge police officers in the death of alton sterling. here is the white house s response. certainly we want to make sure that all law enforcement is carrying out the letter of the law. the president is very supportive of law enforcement. at the same time in these specific cases and these specific instances, those would be left up to local authorities to make that determination and not something for the federal government to weigh in on. gardner that cried out 11 times, i can t believe, his mother is still looking for inindictment of police officers in new york. does the president ask them the status, is something going to happen? what? i m not aware of any specific action. these would be local matters that should be left up to the
grave concerns about this memo that alleges agents abuse their authority to monitor certain members of the trump campaign. my next guest thinks the president should likely not worry about an indictment from the russian investigation. because there s no way that mueller would take that step. great piece for the atlantic, that there will be no indictment. ken star in the white water investigation of president clinton is a pleasure. you know, you write in your piece, color me skeptic al. why do you think he wouldn t be indicted? the main reason is that the department of justice has been against the inindictment of a president since 1973. that opinion was issued in 73
they say something in the intercepts or whatever they have that suggested that he crossed the line. that s the way it works. then they get that warrant which we know they had a on carter page. we also now understand when there was leaks that came out, there was an investigation at all, people close to the trump campaign that were being monitored by intelligence changed their behavior. do you think they were able to evade u.s. monitoring from then on? those leaks what could safe them from formal crime or inindictment? it could but the fbi would have been willing to pivot to see, to be able to follow the lead. also in any court order, let s say in any interview in which someone is under oath, an fbi agent can say you were using this phone number till december 20th. on december 20th the new york times or cnn came out with this story and on december 21st you dumped that phone number and using a new number. why is that? if that person lies, that s the