was president. those are all covered by executive privilege and by the unfetterred pardon power which is in the constitution. when you put it altogether, you end up with an illegitimate suit. it s an illegitimate putting. he doesn t have the power to investigate to impeach, and so rosenstein s appointment is not only illegitimate, it s a constitutional farce and it s hurting the country. mark: what do you think the framers of the constitution would say about what this does to separation of powers, what it does to the whole construct of our constitutional system? and isn t it why chuck schumer and the democrats, even before the president was sworn in, were demanding a special counsel? because they knew this is where it would lead? yeah, of course, mark, this was all set up in advance. framers established a remedy, a constitutional remedy for malignant behavior from the executive branch, impeachment.
was president. those are all covered by executive privilege and by the unfetterred pardon power which is in the constitution. when you put it altogether, you end up with an illegitimate suit. it s an illegitimate putting. he doesn t have the power to investigate to impeach, and so rosenstein s appointment is not only illegitimate, it s a constitutional farce and it s hurting the country. mark: what do you think the framers of the constitution would say about what this does to separation of powers, what it does to the whole construct of our constitutional system? and isn t it why chuck schumer and the democrats, even before the president was sworn in, were demanding a special counsel? because they knew this is where it would lead? yeah, of course, mark, this was all set up in advance. framers established a remedy, a constitutional remedy for malignant behavior from the executive branch, impeachment.
the special council has unfetterred power to do whatever he wants. the judge in sum and substance said this is a witch hunt. and quite correct, attorney general sessions should step up and dismiss this entire investigation. there s no evidence of any of the things you re talking about. the only evidence the only crimes are committed by the government which is why the judge is so outraged. i wouldn t be surprised if he didn t dismiss that case. so the president s attorney visited with the president at the glofl club in virginia yesterday. he told the washington post quote, he stays focused on iran, north korea and china and we ll bother him when we have to. however on friday trump was eager to speak with reporters
he said he gave them to richman to kick start who is knew the mueller probe. i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i didn t do it for a variety of reasons. i did it because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. so i asked a friend of mine to do it. who was that? a good friend of mine from columbia law school. fox news understands that richman was sent talking points on the clinton e-mail investigation specifically the government server used for business and sandy berger, the late national security adviser under president clinton. an fbi spokesmen said to fox that they had a number of special employees and nobody had unfetterred at says to the bureau. neil: thanks, catherine.
joe arpaio. right. trump is advancing political and personal interests by way of this pardon. what does this do in terms of precedent, danny? this would seem to be something that should be troubling to folks when you take a step back and look at what this might mean for future administrations. pardon power is interesting. it is almost unfetterred. it is one of the most limitless powers bestowed on the president by the constitution. yet there are self-imposed restrictions as we heard talked about. there is a process. there is an office that reviews these requests. so even though the president theoretically can bypass i shouldn t say theoretically. even though the president can and has bypassed that office, it s supposed to go through the process. yet the power is clear in that the president can just announce a pardon and place any conditions on it that he wants. it s interesting, you mentioned scooter libby s law license. one of the things the president cannot do with a federa