counsel had his or her own authority. so it s going to be a different set of issues in terms of separation of powers because robert mueller is an officer of the justice department. he enjoyed certain independence, but he, nonetheless, reports to the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in this instance because of jeff sessions recusal. there are some instances i m not going to predict how justin kavanaugh would come out on that. neil: nor should you. i was just trying to see if you were going to slip up. i frequently do. neil: no, i try, but you don t give. one thing i want a handle on, in this ongoing investigation, not to get in the weeds with this with you nor do i intend to. do you know whether the judge shares reservations about prosecutorial zeal in general, that they can go far from their original mission, for example, as did yours. it s not your fault, but the investigation that ensued led into other areas, other
independents, and don t have particular allegiance to one party or the other and that s why the reason why people aren t going out and voting because they don t see themselves represented. i think that that s frustrating and i can definitely agree with kat on that. there s no middle ground. you re left or right and nowhere in the middle. i think when we re talking about kavanaugh, honestly, people have to educate themselves on the process and on the history of the supreme court. neil: ladies, thank you very, very much. i know we switched gear, but i thought there were a lot of interesting comments in the ken starr interview that warranted this. in the meantime, a father in the shooting making sure there are no victims. i didn t think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke.
for fun. of course i was honored to be considered. did he tell you you would make another list? no,he s not talking about future lists at thispoint. ourself job is to get judge kavanaugh confirmed. all right, due process,if your brother would have gotten it over you how would you have felt. i would have been thrilled. i told him i couldn t think of a better person that would have been better suited than my brother the justice that severed on the sea supreme court. i wonder how the battle ghost and yougoes.judge kavanaugh wila longer confirmation process because he had a long track
avenues. there was the linda tripp thing that led to your discovery of the relationship with the intern. that these things by their natural course, go on add infini infinitem. do you know what he thinks about? i know from his impressive body of work as a judge, neil, and i think that everybody is sitting back and saying this is an impressive record, is he believes in the principle of accountability. we see that in his work with the administrative agencies. he does believe that under your constitutional system, under our rule of law, every person needs to be accountable and so i would say, yes, that would include prosecutors as well. where is the accountability here? i think he would ask that question and would then probe fair-mindedly and open mindedly into the specifics. he doesn t say this is how i
new york times. neil: i read that piece. i m glad you had him on, i m sorry i missed it. and a wonderful professor at yale law school, these are liberal yale law professors, but they re people of principle and they see that brett kavanaugh is truly an outstanding candidate who deserves confirmation overwhelmingly. neil: maybe you can help me get clear his views on presidential misconduct then because they seem to have evolved, veered or he has pivoted somewhat on the issue of certainly about bill clinton s transgressions and how aggressively a prosecutor can go. could you enlighten me? well, i think what brett experienced, i m sorry i call him by his first name, but what judge kavanaugh experienced during the whitewater investigation and especially the lewinsky phase, is the downside of these investigations. that is, they re very disruptive to the presidency