so that -- bourque has always -- while he's very conservative and much more conservative than many inlican party, he's kind of gotten a bad rap over the years. >> so john, is it worse than -- i mean, in nixon's case, he had to get someone to get the job done. in trump's case, the white house believes he has the power to fire mueller himself. what do you think? >> well, i think that's a new theory of executive power that's really come since watergate. it's called the unitary executive theory, that the president has unlimited powers in the executive branch, that he cannot only fire anybody in the justice department, not with standing regulations, he can go over to the s.e.c. and tell them how to decide a case or tell the s.e.c. how to decide a case. it really does -- it places the president above the law. and most scholars don't subscribe to that theory. >> so is the president getting accurate information? because the white house says the president has been advised that he has the power to fire mueller. >> i think the president can probably get advice on any issue on both sides of it if