Time. We welcome everybody to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report 3. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The title of todays hearing is lessons from the Mueller Report part 3, constitutional processes for addressing president ial misconduct. As many of you may already know, the subtitle is taken directly from volume 2 of the Mueller Report where he describes why he did not reach a prosecutorial judgment regarding trumps conduct. There the special counsel explained as an attorney operating within the department of justice, is he bound by Department Policy including an office of Legal Counsel opinion that asserts that a president is immune from prosecution while in office. The special council recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting president would place burdens undue burden or burdens on president s capacity to governor. The report acknowledged such an accusation cog spgs disrupt constitutional processes for addressing president ia
Time. We welcome everybody to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report 3. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. The title of todays hearing is lessons from the Mueller Report part 3, constitutional processes for addressing president ial misconduct. As many of you may already know, the subtitle is taken directly from volume 2 of the Mueller Report where he describes why he did not reach a prosecutorial judgment regarding trumps conduct. There the special counsel explained as an attorney operating within the department of justice, is he bound by Department Policy including an office of Legal Counsel opinion that asserts that a president is immune from prosecution while in office. The special council recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting president would place burdens undue burden or burdens on president s capacity to governor. The report acknowledged such an accusation cog spgs disrupt constitutional processes for addressing president ia