new developments in the allegations of sexual misconduct against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. a woman who wrote a confidential letter going public with her story in the washington post. the 51-year-old college professor said kavanaugh tried to force himself on her in the 80 kavanaugh denies the allegations. i m lauren green, now back to life, liberty & levin. . mark: welcome back. gregg jarrett, let s talk about rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general of the united states for these purposes, the acting attorney general of the united states because jeff sessions recused himself, and he appoints a special counsel to investigate russian collusion and interference related to the trump campaign. donald trump fires jim comey. jim comey says, after he s
collusion, whatever that amorphous crime is that is nowhere in the criminal code, you have no legal right or basis or justification for questioning the president of the united states about a noncrime, i think mueller has come to the realization, he knows if he were to slap the subpoena with a president, the president would move in a motion to quash and that mueller would lose in the federal courts. he might win in district court but in front of the united states district supreme court, mueller knows he would lose. which is now why he s relenting to a few questions in writing of the president about what he may or may not know about collusion, but no questions about obstruction of justice. mark: the president has never appeared before a federal grand jury. bill clinton negotiated an out
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president and they write this report for the deputy attorney general of the united states, as the acting attorney general of the united states, the president has no legal way to defend himself. he has to defend the office of the president against what could be a rogue indictment. he has to fight that for the office of the presidency. for separation of powers and so forth, and yet as an individual citizen, he can t go to court. he can t fight the allegations. isn t this a strange situation where a report is written and it s given to the department of justice which will then be pressured to give it to congress when you have an inferior employee at the department of justice basically writing an impeachment report? don t you find odd? this really goes to the whole idea of special counsels and the way that we use special counsels and essentially have you somebody whose job it is to shadow this president and all
law in the answer is no, the president can be prosecuted for the crimes once he leaves office. if there were crimes committed, the president can be held accountable. i think mostly experts agree that the statute of limitations were told that he s president and can t be indicted. i think it does flow, if he can t be indicted, he can t be forced to testify in front of a grand jury. mark: it s important for the audience to understand, donald trump is not making these rules, these are the rules in existence, the constitution has been in existence, he s dealing with it. one of the things he has to deal with is protect the office of the presidency, and the department of justice memos say what you gentlemen just said, which is in fact they go further, which is even if the statute of limitation runs, so be it. there are things that you have to weigh when you are dealing with the president of the united states. he s not one of a thousand judges, he s not one of 535 members of congress, he s n