Schmidt: Presidents know their authority can't be constrained to get foreign intelligence. We're talking about a foreign power that has attacked in this country.
It's the strongest possible case and it's long standing that the president has authority.
Even if that's wrong, it still is an argument that serious legal scholars can make and to say the president should be censured because of the legal advice he got is wrong.
"Schmidt: Presidents know their authority can't be constrained to get foreign intelligence. We're talking about a foreign power that has attacked in this country.
It's the strongest possible case and it's long standing that the president has authority. Even if that's wrong, it still is an argument that serious legal scholars can make and to say the president should be censured because of the legal advice he got is wrong."
Exactly.