we kept going, the next day, after the saturday night massacre, to let people in the white house know we were still open for business, i was making calls and keeping appointments. you were in the front row of that announcement. i think the group of the staff, you saw me coming out, i looked a lot different. i had a lot more hair and was a lot younger. apparently, in the case of watergate, it never got to that the determination was nixon could have been indicted for crimes. the impeachment of bill clinton, 1998, it is proper, constitutional, for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president, contrary to the president s official duties, nobody even president clinton is above the law. do you concur with those findings? i think that is right but you have a justice department regulation, that wouldn t permit prosecutors to do that.
appropriate express of the assessment would not only be a departure from the responsibilities but dangerous president damaging to the rule of law. ultimately, richard nixon was not indicted and wanted to let impeachment run the course which of course led to nixon s resignation and pardon by president gerald ford for any and all crimes he might have committed. it s an interesting question one that s all the more relevant now that the obstruction of justice inquiry into the current president is reaching critical mass. we ve had presidential impeachments and pardons but never in the history of this country has a sitting president been criminally indicted. can a sitting president be charged with a crime? if so, what would that look like? joining us is a former assistant special watergate prosecutor nick ackerman under archibald cox and leon jaworski. you worked for both of them. you kept on working. kept on going. the next day after the saturday night massacre to let people in the white
the white house know we were open for business. i was making calls and keeping appointments. you told me you were in the front row of the announcement. there is also the group of the staff you saw me coming out. i looked a lot different. i had a lot more hair and was a lot younger. let s revisit the question. apparently in the case of watergate, it never got to that but the determination was nixon could have been indicted for crimes. fast forward to 1998 and impeachment of bill clinton, ken star write as memo in 1998 he said hits properit s proper anda grand jury to indict for not official dutys, in this country, no one is above the law. do you concur? that s right. you got a justice department regulation that wouldn t permit the prosecutors to do that but what is that regulation? it s a regulation of the department. it s a department practice they are not going to indict a
some point in that attack the old gus came back. i like to think that or believe that. because he certainly wasn t himself when he started. no, he wasn t himself. that s not your son. no. whatever took my son well, you know, the bi-polar disorder or schizophrenia or whatever mental illness there was that took my son and worsened in the last few months. he was on medication and wasn t keepi keeping appointments and there was nothing more i could do. i had taken him to the it s not like he s my son so i can automatically enroll him in a hospital somewhere. he s an adult. everything i had done the day before, you know, we tried and had been rejected. my son was allowed to suffer and
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