She was pressing the matter hard. And the key is in the word: envisioning. She is envisioning it. Hence, the way she is constructing a la Weisman for a criminal regime.

Turning the argument around: this is what the dems are gunning for.

I will add this consideration: https://www.city-journal.org/article/no-more-special-counsels h/t @ purkiss80

In a democratic republic, criminal investigations simply cannot carry the political burdens we place on them. In our system, only Congress has the democratic legitimacy to judge the conduct of the sitting president, and only Congress possesses the constitutional tool—impeachment—capable of adjudicating alleged lawbreaking by a sitting president. Prosecutors—particularly ones whom no voter supported, no president appointed, and no senator confirmed—lack the legitimacy, the stature, and the legal tools to do work that only a democratic branch can do.