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Impede in an investigation. >> then my point, jeffrey, is that im trying to highlight, i think, the discretion that robert mueller, if these are the only known facts to him, will ultimately have in determining whether he can assemble an obstruction case. >> obstruction cases are very difficult to assemble, because they turn on this question of what is in the persons mind. there are a lot of dots to connect. you mentioned some of them. did he know that flynn lied to the fbi when he fired comey, w...

Spokesperson quit because of concerns over obstruction of justice. this all may have come as news to us, but by the time were reading it, mueller already knows about it. the relevant timeline gained clarity, but in a moment ill ask a constitutional expert if legal answers are anymore clear. important milestones would seem to include the following, the january 27, 2017 dinner between the president and then-fbi director comey, where trump supposedly sought comeys loyalty. next, the february 14th m...

Case. >> i dont want to lead you. youre a constitutional scholar, a smart guy, as read-in as they come. when you saw the "times" story, the cnn story today with new developments, what jumps off those pages to jeffrey rosen? >> both that there are increasing pieces of the puzzle that troubled staffers within the white house enough for them to think that there might be a plausible case of obstruction, and on the other hand that there is not yet a smoking gun. there may not be one, and that ultimat...

But the founders believed that impeachment was ultimately a political remedy, but youre right, it depended on a certain trust in the virtue of representatives and their ability to defend the public interest, and thats why its so terribly important that if ultimately this did come to impeachment, people try to set aside their partisan views and decide, was the public interest served, or were there grave crimes and misdemeanors against the united states of america. >> final question, based on that...

Question of obstruction. consider that michael schmidt in "the times" yesterday reported that the president had instructed white house counsel don mcgann to stop the attorney general from recusing himself. now cnn is reporting it wasnt just mcgann, it may have been priebus, sean spicer, as well. is there anything improper in that? >> well, that is the simple question, and just as in washington its not the crime, its the coverup, the question as you said so well, michael, did he have corrupt inte...

As shown in a great new book which i recommend for viewers, impeachment can be for things not illegal, like if the president went to mar-a-lago and golfed for a year and didnt do his job, or for things that are illegal, like jaywalking. so if the president in this case tried to shut down an investigation because he was embarrassed by it, but had the effect of making it impossible to figure out whether his campaign colluded with russia, for example, the house might well judge that was a high crim...