he is a marine. he does not want to challenge and take on his boss. bret: you think that the ten things listed there could be actually prosecuted? absolutely. so do more than 1,000 former federal prosecutors. even though there is no underlying indictment on the conspiracy? underlying indictment theory is not even embraced by the president to doj. bret: i understand that you could go forward with the crime, but you think that the prosecutor would do that? i don t know if a prosecutor would, but under the law there is enough for a prosecutor to do so. and as far as the olc, office of legal counsel opinion, it is an advisory opinion issued in october of 2000. 45 days later, the justice department prosecuted the president of the united states for obstruction of justice and perjury. 45 days after that he pleaded guilty to a felony while still in office. it is clear that the opinion is
and he is saying the only reservreasonwe didn t charge the president because of this office of legal counsel opinion in october of 2000 saying you can t charge a sitting put. that opinion, i have to tell is you advisory, not mandatory. how do we know that? it came out october 16th, 2,000. what happened in november of 2,000? a month later the same justice department charged the president of the united states, bill clinton with lying under oath and with obstruction of justice. and what happened after two months after that? he pleaded guilty. so it s obvious that this opinion that everybody is looking at in different ways is advisory and not mandatory. where does this take us? he is certainly going to testify again, whether he wants to or not. is he a private citizen. they will probably serve him with a subpoena this afternoon. he has opened the door to that and basically said i m washing my hands of this. congress, it s in your court. ainsley: when i was watching it yesterday i thought o
president is a nonlinear relationship. that s what we call it in polling terms. what that means is, an incumbent absolutely gets punished for a bad economy. if you are herbert hoover, you are blamed for the bad economy, on the other hand, a good economy is not necessarily were awarded as or consistently, particularly if you do not do two critical things in an election is an incumbent, talk about your success, talk about the next step, and disqualify your opponent as a threat to that economic growth. can i gave you one example that we have been through? sean: yes. thank goodness, where has the whiteboard been? it s back! unemployment rate in october of 2000 was 3.9%, now it is 3.6. the real gdp growth in 2000 was 2.97, growth in 2019, 2.97. this was the clinton-gore third
unleash a foolproof clean in one step. aww, you did the laundry! but you didn t fold it. oh, that wasn t in the note. should have sent a text. for a powerful clean in one step, it s got to be tide. brian: october of 2,000 the u.s.s. cole was attacked by bombers. 17 killed. 3 injuries. look at that hole in the
one of the complaints was gas prices are up. that s what happens when you have a booming economy. imagine how much higher they would be if donald trump hadn t pursued energy independence for. he complained about nafta. trump took the side of canada on renegotiations you re a union member, looking at this, what, he took the side of canada? everybody knows in this negative hundred, canada doesn t want to renegotiate. canada likes the way it is right now. griff: before you get there. chris wallace is good of a questioner on sunday mornings as anybody. he says you re head of labor unions. look what president trump s administration done. economy growing at 4.2% in quarter two. unemployment 3.9% in july. consumer confidence rose in august. highest level since october of 2000.