Understand it, if you re going to watch a congressional inquiry where it s done in smaller bites, then maybe that s a better way for people to understand the true obstruction case that came from the mueller report. i want to stay on that point of obstruction and what you said about what is legally permissible because speaker pelosi, as we talked about earlier in the show, reportedly said she d rather see the president imprisoned than impeached. walk us through the legality of that. could the president avoid being charged based on the obstruction statute of limitations? that s a very interesting question. i would like to think that they re not mutually exclusive. i would like to think prison and impeachment can go hand in hand, but the reality is such that because we have this now famous office of legal counsel, this olc opinion that said you cannot indict a sitting president, that s what mueller even referenced in his report as to binding his hands with a
The president has the right to fire comey. he can be fired for good, bad or no reason at all. he s at at-will employee. he shouldn t be. that s not what congress wanted setting up this ten-year term. it s clear that rosenstein did believe he could and should be fired. whether the president did it for the right reason i don t think is going to factor into a true obstruction case. this white house is floundering. this is where you get into serious jeopardy, is when you re floundering around, issuing category denials. it s one thing to spin the public. this stuff is hard wired into congress. if those statements start to be made in congress and they re lies, someone is going to get indicted. aren t we at the point where we have a presidency that is floundering so much that almost every move he makes there are calls for investigations and