general jeff sessions would not order the department to go after hillary clinton and james comey, the former fbi director, mr. trump would prosecute them himself. times reporter michael schmidt it down even further. >> the president of the united states said that he wanted to turn himself into a prosecutor. he wanted to use the powers of the federal government to investigate and go after his perceived rivals and enemies and critics. >> in this piece, schmidt also says the white house hustlers wrote trump a long memo explaining that no, couldn't legally start a prosecution himself. they were so concerned about trump trying that they smuggled copies of their memo out of the white house so they would have a record of their efforts to restrain him. despite concerns by his own white house lawyers, bigger concerns, his loyalist in the department of justice move forward and they did go after trump paid it. clinton, comay, john kerry and even former aide who turned against him like john bolton. they were all investigated. trump attacked reporters and members of the media all the time. we sought happen publicly, and of course, the justice department at the time took it upon themselve