Presidents including Donald Trump do have a get-out-of-jail-free card from the Justice Department, because there's this Office of Legal Counsel policy that a president can't be indicted.
Maddow discusses the legal protections that prevent a sitting president from being indicted, linking it to historical precedents.
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