view is important. >> thank you, neil. the question is whether thepresident has already committed a crime and would constitutional crisis would he be doing by obstructing justice -- >> neil: we're not at that point and the president -- >> he suggested that he could. >> neil: but right now and i don't know the legalities on this or whether he does it through others at the justice department as richard nixon did, but hadley, the question i have for you is, the president hadn't signals anything. obviously people quickly interpreted that after the raid of his personal lawyer's offices and home that it would be a capitulation event where the president said that's it, it done. this guy is done and i'm done with this guy but it never happened. >> that's right. the administration has given no indication this is within the realm of possibilities, that he would be fired. i'm going to emphasize what