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you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca... ...may be able to help. >> back with me now, barbara smithll gavin. bill and barbara, i want it 0 ask you both this question. is there any reason in the world, i know everyone reflexively wants to do this, whether republican or democrat in the white house, i just can't imagine why any president would go to a special counsel, irrespective of the demands from the opposing party. barbara, can you think of any reason? >> my reflexive answer would be whether the president is a democrat or a republican they should not do that precisely because the constitution is set up to give the president and the president alone all executive power in article 2, if you have, quote, independent special prosecutor who is charged with exercising executive power, but isn't accountable to the president that strikes me as fundamentally unconstitutional and that's one of the justice scalia's defense, he said that in the defense. lou: i like your idea of reflexive. if the country was we'd be well thought out. bill, your thoughts. >> i agree with barbara, it's a bad idea

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barbara, let me read to you and to our viewers another sentence from this article. jeffrey smithral counsel of the cia, a man you and i know. he's quoted as saying this. trump's efforts to use the director of national an tell jens and the nsa director to refute comey's statement and to say there was no evidence of collusion echoes president richard nixon's, quote, unaccessful efforts to use the cia to shut down the fbi's investigation of the watergate break-in on national security grounds. that's a pretty explosive statement. >> well, let me just, you know, make -- absolutely, wolf, and let me make the common sense point here. what the president has potentially put at risk is decades, hundreds of years of public confidence in the united states military. that the u.s. military does not act and in this country for a political agenda. that the u.s. military exists solely and only for the defense of this country. not for political agenda of politically elected officials, whether they're president of the united states or not. if you have a president, any president, start reaching into