acceptable for the president to be subject to criminal process while in office, but by distinction the vice president, whose duties are nowhere near as important, can be subject to criminal process. and that s one of the memos now cited for the proposition. but when it was written, it was a very close question and the professor in charge of the office of legal counsel wasn t clear how to answer it, but it got answered against the imperative of dealing with the agnew heartbeat away problem. got answered against the imperative dealing with the agnew heartbeat away from the presidency problem. and that s sort of critical here, right? for then and for now. i mean, what the dixon memo said in 1973, what that memo said was you could indict a vice president but incidentally you couldn t indict a president.
criminal a criminal process. if they do that, you know what their ultimate is, it s called the death penalty. i thanked president chi very much president xi very much. this was a meeting that was supposed to last for about 45 minutes and it ended up being almost four hours, some of you were there. it was a great meeting. we ll see what happens. you never know with a deal. but i will tell you, china is not doing well now and it puts us in a very strong position. we are doing very well, but we re taking in billions and billions of dollars and i hope we re going to make a deal with china. and if we don t, they re paying us tens of billions of dollars worth of tariffs, not the worst this evening in the worl thing in the world. i think we will make a deal with china. i think they want to. i think they sort of have to and i think we re going to have a
that s true, we ve just never seen this much of it or a president who abuses the truth the way he does. i don t know about that. i think ray is on the same thing of mirrors and missing the issues. the issue is not lying under oath. it s lying to the american people. a very serious felony. you just heard kellyanne conway say, people, election experts agree this wasn t a felony. and stuff like that. absolutely preposterous. no, i don t i don t agree with that. let me finish. tomorrow i have an editorial coming out with a republican former chair of the fec. in the washington post . saying this is a very serious violation, the edwards precedent doesn t apply, and the like. the president has denied this today, he says he s acting at the advice of council. this is the same guy who lied to us in april. i have no idea why we should believe him now. bring him now. the criminal process will unfold.
us in april. i have no idea why we should bring him now. the criminal process will unfold. i think the impeachment process will unfold. time will tell what happened. if i were a lawyer what they can corroborate. by saying, well, you know, he s lied before. all right. fair enough. but he had his statements in this regard corroborated by the prosecutors as with the mueller probe and what he told them about russia. they said, with respect to this, from the second meeting on, he s told the truth. and the president needs to show the same kind of corroboration to be believed. he can t be just believed as a oneoff. he lies too much. unfortunately that s a reality. whoa, whoa. go ahead. what happened to the presumption of innocence? i m not saying he s guilty of something. i m saying he s lying. didn t he okay. that s fine. that s nice that you say and god knows that it s not a god knows thing. that doesn t i have a tape with his voice on it going through the transact
that a sitting president cannot be indicted. there were different policy reasons given and the overarching constitutionality of it would be simply said if he does something that bad, you re going to impeach him anyway and then can you have this type of criminal process. we don t want to have something akin to political payback. you say it isn t that clear. it is that clear. that s not binding, that s the opinion of a particular justice department. the framers were very careful. they did not want bills of attender. they said someone who is impeached and removed from office cannot be punished bit sena by the senate, but they also said the person should be nevertheless liable to full prosecution and punishment. the only way to guarantee that is to not have a policy that