thoughts? is it time? i called for the senate for the house to begin an impeachment inquiry the day robert mueller gave his press conference making it very clear that the russians had interfered with our elections big-time, two that but for the office of legal council s admonition, they would have made a decision regarding indicting or charging a sitting president and so i called for an impeachment inquiry about three months ago i think. i m not surprised that more in the house are reaching the conclusion after mueller s testimony. the testimony i think was pretty clear that look, we were blocked from recommending an obstruction of justice charge by an olc document. and mueller has said when the normal legal process is blocked dealing with the president, the only remedy is a congressional remedy. if you give conduct like this a free pass, then you ve
democrats, only because they have the standard of, what are they going to do to account. if everything goes as well as it could tomorrow, what does that look like and what does that mean? if everything goes the way they want it to, you re going to have a vivacious mueller bringing to life the actual book. that s not going to happen. what could happen instead is he answers the question, which is, but for that office of legal council opinion, would you have indicted the ordinary person? now, hold on. if laura coates is sitting next to bob mueller as the trusted deputy, you don t immediately go, oh, we don t have to talk about that, we don t have to talk about that. if it s the godfather, you do, but it s not the godfath godfather. this doesn t tell you whether or not you think that you had some right outside the opinion. it doesn t change the calculus to say that this president will, in fact, be a sitting president that was indicted. it simply says, if it s the
prosecutor is appointed to do. mueller punted. he s given an explanation for why he said you know, he says the olc opinions, but not just the olc opinions. he says, in his conclusion on the whole obstruction, he says, these are difficult issues that both the facts and the law. so if the facts were muddy, he had to make a call and he didn t. why didn t he subpoena the president? why did he just accept the written answers? why didn t he subpoena donald junior and require him to testify? he would have taken the fifth, granted, but still, you know, that was the process that mueller had available to him. so there are a lot of tough questions that mueller should be asked, whether the democrats who would want to build up mueller will go that route, that s going to be something interesting. i m out of time on this. this is a really good taste of how it can go right and how it can go wrong. we ll all see it in realtime. history will be made tomorrow on our watch. thank you very much to the
in adding any question to the census is rational saesessentia. i want to talk to you about your time at the office of legal council and a piece of the washington post that you wrote earlier this year. lawyers gaive the president de deferrence they don t represent an individual person at all. they represent the united states. when attorneys for the federal government stand up in the courts, that s what they say, i represent the united states of america, not i represent the interests of donald j. trump. the position for attorneys for the government has been put in time and again for the
insists that the 20 census includes a citizenship question. that as the entire doj legal team that was representing the administration just last week is being replaced. a source telling cnn they would have been in the position to have to contradict himself in court to get the president what he wants. our next guest, life in the doj under president trump until last november, she was an attorney adviser in the doj s office of legal council. she came to the decision that her job expectations were in compatible with her oath of office to uphold the constitution. thank you, good to see you. good to see you don. let me get your take that the president insisted that the citizenship question should be added by executive order? there is as fundamental point