and that term and that phrase is often used to say the president cannot not be prosecuted for a crime. but in reality, that particular portion of the court s holding in u.s. versus nixon was about whether or not the president had to comply with aspects of due process of the law. and the idea that you run the executive branch, the role of the executive branch is to enforce the laws as are written, and that includes due process. you can not get in the way of trying to ensure that due process or a criminal investigation is being pursued. that includes whether you can comply with the subpoena. you have the nixon case, of course, that dealt with documents and whether the president had to comply with the subpoena that ultimately led to the disclosure of the various tapes. but the principle is still the same here, that the president cannot simply thumb his nose at a key portion of due process in this country. and make sure i get this. i want to get this in, please, because i think it s impo
president trump said to be growing frustrated with rudy giuliani. his media blitz raising even more questions for the president. back with me now cnn legal analyst laura coates. and we re joined by samuel buhl, a former federal prosecutor. so good to have both of you on. welcome back, laura. welcome to the show, samuel. samuel, i m going to start with you. we talked about rudy giuliani in the last segment. i want to play something that i heard from the white house about giuliani earlier today. watch this. is the president pleased with the appearances of rudy giuliani over the last few days? i didn t speak with him specifically about his feelings about it, but certainly feels that he is an added member, added value member to his outside special counsel. so samuel, is giuliani adding value to trump s outside legal team? well, so far not because he s out front much too quickly and
indictment is forthcoming, could be a year before that case goes to trial. that might not even be the ultimate charges in his investigation. in terms of the style of all this, though, you wrote in the article that mueller and his team have been quietly pulling on the levers of law, but this leak friday night about the seals indictment, that s anything but quiet. how do you explain this? alex, it s not at all clear this comes from mueller s team. to return an indictment, you have to the rule requires the prosecutor to take the indictment from the grand jury with the grand jury foreperson and bring it into court and present it to a judge. the hallways of the courthouse are public. it s extremely hard to do that without somebody in the courthouse knowing what s going on. how many people are we talking about, samuel? can you guess how many different people might be privy to this information outside of mueller s team? is it five, 15? the judge to whom the indictment was presented,
critics. we have a strong case. this isn t a reach. in order to he can t say those things publicly. the way he says that is to put his case in the indictment. all right, samuel, always an excellent conversation and very illuminating. thanks. nobody knows a thing. that s the story from both the dnc and the clinton campaign when it comes to knowledge of the trump dossier. a former senior adviser to the campaign will be here in just a moment to discuss it. later today, my colleague thomas roberts speaks with former ambassador to the u.n., bill richardson. patients that i see
welcome back, everyone. i m alex witt at msn bbc headquarters in new york. we have this breaking news. new reaction just this hour from white house attorney ty cobb. he says today s tweets by the president have nothing to do with the indictment expected to be handed out tomorrow by special counsel robert mueller. earlier today, you re seeing him there, the president firing off several tweets about hillary clinton, accusing his former campaign rival of colluding with russia. let s bring in former federal prosecutor samuel buhl. with a good day to you, want to get your reaction to what we have been told by white house lawyer ty cobb and his feeling the need to come out and clarify that the president s tweets are not a direct reflection of anything regarding bob mueller and the indictment being handed down.