Elie Honig on the Challenges and Perils of Prosecuting a President
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🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:51.6 | Coming up on forum, what happens when prosecutors take on sitting |
| 0:55.0 | U.S. presidents. That's the subject of CNN senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor |
| 1:00.0 | Ellie Honig's new book about the successes and failures of the Department of Justice's efforts |
| 1:05.2 | to hold presidents from Nixon to Trump to account. We'll also get Honig's take on the latest |
| 1:10.7 | DOJ controversies, including |
| 1:12.6 | the firings of veteran prosecutors, and the department's lack of independence from the president. |
| 1:18.4 | Honig's new book is When You Come at the King, join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. |
| 1:38.0 | Investigating a president has never been easy, as we know all too well from Watergate, |
| 1:42.4 | and more recently investigations by special counsels Robert |
| 1:45.5 | Mueller and Jack Smith. But we are now facing a moment when the president has made himself |
| 1:50.4 | investigation proof, says CNN senior legal analyst Ellie Honig, with a compliant Department |
| 1:56.4 | of Justice, a key institution in holding the president to account. Honig has looked at past efforts by |
| 2:02.1 | DOJ to investigate officials at the highest levels of government. He joins us to talk about the |
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