Neal Katyal

I think the President should be on warning that his tactics here are really the tactics not of innocent people, but of mob bosses.

I think it can carry a lot. I think putting it mildly, Rudy Giuliani is not behaving like most lawyers, whether on TV lawyers or any other kind, certainly not a presidential lawyer.

They can try but I think they'll lose.

Yes, it certainly looks like obstruction of something if you're tearing up notes and things like that.

There are statutes of limitations and other things that would otherwise kick in and defend the president and immunize them from all potential criminal liability.

I think the indictment of the very least has to happen.

But suppose there were an indictment and the president says, 'I actually have other things to do'. So, we would suspend the statute of limitations and wait until the president is out of office.

I think the interesting question is if Mueller decides that there is information sufficient to indict the president can he do so?

It's particularly hard for him, though, to make this claim, because he is a self-described strict constructionist.

The public record of Whitaker demonstrates day and day out, this is someone who should not be our nation's chief law enforcement officer.

This is not someone who should be in charge of our law enforcement apparatus at all.

A crime is a crime is a crime, correct?

In America we live under the rule of law. And we don't sit there and make excuses for federal felons and say, oh, other people are doing it, too.

I can't imagine anything more despicable than what Orrin Hatch said.

If the President insists on saying, 'I'm above the law,' then you know, he's inviting that impeachment inquiry.

I mean, these two contributions very well may have swung the election.

the whole idea behind our Constitution is to prevent the president from just reaching into the bowels of the Justice Department and picking some nobody, some lackey, who is his friend, to do his bidding.

the president can just install his lackey in.

the House Democrats being in control of, you know, a branch of government.

the president's appointment of Whitaker is unconstitutional.

the idea that the president could install his own lackey is something that the founders would have rebelled against.

Put simply, Donald J. Trump does not believe in law enforcement. He doesn't believe in the law part of it, you know, he tramples on the Constitution willy-nilly and he doesn't believe in the enforcement part of it, either.

This is unlike last year's fight. This is the fight of basically the future of the Supreme Court for the next 40 years.

What does have bearing is what Donald Trump said during his campaign. He promised that he would put two or three justices on the court who would overrule Roe vs. Wade.

But I don't think it's a right to say the prosecution will all be over.