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The Rachel Maddow Show
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The Rules About Not Chargeing a Sitting President
The rules about not charging a sitting president were created in the early seventies. But that rule wasn't really tested till almost 50 years down the road, till our time in the tory books. It was three years ago when special council robert muller completed his report of his investigation into russia interfering in our presidential election to help the trump campaign. And it laid out in detail steps that trump took as president to try to block that lawful investigation and how they did it. So if charges are warranted here because of trump's behavior, those criminal charges can be brought against him once he is no longer protected by that justice department rule which says you can't be criminally charged while you're
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