A gross misunderstatement

Jonathan Turley, on Olbermann's Countdown.

TURLEY: Well, first of all, this president‘s theory of his power is now, I think, so extreme that it‘s unprecedented. He believes that he has the inherent authority to violate federal law. He has said that. Not just in the signing statements, in the infamous torture memo, I, that Alberto Gonzalez signed, it was stated that he could, in some circumstances, order federal officials to violate federal law.

And this is consistent across the board with this president. Frankly, I‘m not too sure what he thought he was swearing to when he took the oath of office to uphold the Constitution and our laws. I‘ve never seen a president who‘s so uncomfortable in his constitutional skin.