CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger said on Friday that Attorney General Bill Bar seemed to be ignoring an important "precedent" in his decision-making about the Mueller report, one set during the impeachments of Presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.
Borger made the remark during a wide-ranging discussion of what might be in the report and what was motivating Democrats to get to the bottom of it. Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was repeatedly hammering the point that Barr should simply release the report and let the chips fall where they may, while conservative commentator S.E. Cupp argued, somewhat incoherently, that "both camps" were involved in some level of "CYA". Everyone was up in arms about "the Comey problem."
"If you can't charge the president because of Justice Department rules, how much can you say about his bad behavior publicly if he is not being charged with any crime?" Borger asked. "This is what everybody complained Comey did with Hillary Clinton, he didn't charge her, but he said she was reckless. So what do you do about the president?"
"By the way, there is precedent for releasing grand jury testimony. Just ask Bill Clinton, look at Watergate," she added. "There is precedent for that, and we haven't seen the attorney general look for that or ask for that.
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