Ken Starr: Trump Can Be Indicted, ‘Everyone Is Under the Law’

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SMERCONISH: "A legal hypothetical but one that you had to deal with. Can a sitting U.S. president be indicted?" 
STARR: "The Justice Department has an informal policy that the president, the sitting president cannot, and that is not embodied in any regulation of the like. It is an understanding. There have been policy statements to that effect. My own view is that a president of the United States can be indicted. Everyone is under the law." 
SMERCONISH: "I bring this up because this summer we learned from a freedom of information act request that the “New York Times” initiated that there was a memo written at your request on your watch that looked at the issue, and came to the conclusion that you’ve just offered." 
STARR: "Yes. Our basic system going back to Magna Carta, you know, 800 years ago in England, was that every person is subject to the law. Now, that also means the criminal law. Now what I think are separation of powers system means is that, as I said earlier, the president must be treated with every possible respect, so that can affect scheduling and the like, but the Supreme Court of the United States held in the civil setting in Clinton versus Jones, the Paula Corbin Jones, unanimously that the president of the United States had to respond to lawful process, including a civil lawsuit that strikes me all the more so if the criminal laws have been violated, which is obviously a big if."