it s an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other. before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. thanks to this sort of odd a series of things happening all at once in the early 70s, the vice president spiro ag new going to prison, the president, richard nixon, being removed by office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom that it be a good idea to elect guys that cry me to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and add new the justice department in the early 70s bumbled our way into putting down, on paper, that it was policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the united states. and that s an important sort of, a landmark moment for the nixon years right? it s never a good sign when your presi
of nbc news thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow happy to have you here. through a nod series of events surrounding the profoundly profoundly criminal presidency of richard nixon, and the really, really, really criminal vice presidency of nixon s vice president spiro ag new through an odd confluence of events surrounding those, two national leaders, in the early 1970s the u.s. justice department bumbled its way into stating for itself, putting into writing, a new rule. this is a rule that wasn t in the constitution, in any way.
it s an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other. before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. thanks to this sort of odd a series of things happening all at once in the early 70s, the vice president spiro ag new going to prison, the president, richard nixon, being removed by office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in a big felonious mess because the american people in our infinite wisdom that it be a good idea to elect guys that cry me to the white house twice, thanks to that mess around nixon and add new the justice department in the early 70s bumbled our way into putting down, on paper, that it was policy of the justice department to not ever bring criminal charges against a sitting president of the united states. and that s an important sort of, a landmark moment for the nixon
the containers, some documents were held in. the footage also showed other parts of the property seeking a second round of security footage, the justice department wants to review tapes for the weeks leading up to the august 8th search. again, that is the times reporting, just within the past few minutes. for the first time quantifying, at least, according to the times is reporting, the number of classified documents we are talking about here, more than 300 documents being held by the former president at mar-a-lago, despite the fact they were marked as classified. more than 150 of those documents, classified mark documents, being taken from mr. trump in january, more provided in june, and yet more seized by the fbi in their search a couple of weeks ago. we will ask the house indulgence committee chairman about all of that. we will try to get his take on these bizarre and murky claims out of moscow about a car bombing. a far right, and no better word for him, a far-right fascist philoso
evidence developed during the special counsel s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense. our determination was made without regard to and is not based on the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting president. that s what barr did, that s what barr said. it turns out that was a lie. at least a federal appeals court in washington has just ruled that that was a lie. according to a unanimous ruling from the d.c. circuit court of appeals, a three judge panel, when robert mueller turned in his report to the justice department, attorney general bill barr and the justice department never actually considered, at all, whether or not trump committed crimes, or whether trump should be charged. they literally never even looked at that possibility, despite what they said they were doing publicly. barr lied, according to the appeals court, and told congress and the public the j