else. can t interview the president. the idea that you will not conduct an investigation without interviewing the president. that s simply not true. most cases there is all sorts of people interviewed before the main person is even brought, brought into the whole scene. so, i just don t buy that. richard nixon wasn t interviewed. and he was brought down. why? because of all the people around him that gave testimony. there is plenty of opportunity for political mischief, by special prosecutor without having to talk to the president or subpoena him. should have contemplated all of this. by way of impeachment, the rule of the game dictated by founders of our if you are trying to get intent. don t you have to interview the absolutely. let s not forget the supreme court has dealt with this question. at least, i mean, indirectly. in clinton v jones. paula jones case. the supreme court said, we don t care how busy bill clinton its. he has to give a deposition in
own judge. well, there s nine of them, remember. well, he ll be picking one of them. right. cases like this in the past, if you look at the nixon case and others, were decided unanimously. and i would think, i would hope that that wouldn t case here. although it s possible that it would not be. but i think to answer your first question it would be an expedited appeal up to the supreme court, so it wouldn t take very long at all. what do you think they would say? what s the court going to do? the court says we ve been talking about this back and forth for months now. rudy giuliani acts like it s up to the defendant, the president, whether he wants to testify or not. i thought the nixon tapes and other case like those precedents said no, you ve got to. bill clinton had to answer to a grand jury request and he did it. he didn t want to. the paula jones case. he didn t want to go out there. he did it. you i think at the end of the day for president clinton in particular it seem
they can ask for everything from menus was it a club sandwich? everything from billing record, there are cameras, security cameras looking down. they could ask for footage from the security cameras. that probably gets overwritten. but there are many, many records that a lawyer could go for to try to prove a person was there when they say they weren t. why do you say it could be zervos who may have more of a sweeping impact? this is a very important case in that it tests some very basic assumptions about whether the president, a sitting president can be sued in state court. that wasn t an issue that was completely settled by the clinton paula jones case. it was when clinton was deposed that he ran into problems by lying under oath. i think these lawyers are hoping to depose president trump and may be able to do so by january.
this novel he supposedly he s cowritten with james patterson and supposedly is most ambitioui work of fiction since his deposition in the paula jones case. clinton is getting a bazillion dollars to put his name to this ludicrous novel and monica lewinsky is someone who has never had a fulfilled career, never had a fulfilled family life, and that doesn t matter because the clintons just discard people and move on to the next bit of human debris. tucker: and the media goes along with that, of course. mark steyn, thank you for that. it was great to see you. thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: joining us now, richard goodstein, served as an advisor to president clinton. he joins us in the studio. before i ask you the sexual harassment stuff, i want to play a clip from the former president on cbs this morning, also on this book tour, which i hope goes on forever, in which he addresses the great press coverage that barack obama got. here s how he explains that.
laundering. > that is the central issue because after the june 12th summit in singapore, he has to make a choice. will he sit down with bob mueller or not to do an interview. if he doesn t, he fays a possible subpoena battle and beyond that, he faces a report on his conduct that could be given to rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. let me go to barbara on the legal question. the latest one is a judge in manhattan has said he has to sit down to answer questions up to seven hours apparently, i don t know where the number came from, on the summer zar boes case, a suit against him for saying she s lying about the relationship they had. yeah, not surprising that s the decision in the case. very consistent with the decision we saw in bill clinton in the paula jones case. that s the one that got him in trouble. it is. a sitting president, it can be required to sit for a deposition. under oath. you ve got to be very disciplined to answer questions