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Unbelievably he said i dont know. everyone fell off the chairs and got up. you are unsure whether they would have a legal duty? answer, thats a good question. ive not thought about that before. pause. there is a statute that prohibits miss prison of a. taking steps to conceal it. but thats a different question. well, no, mr. comey, thats not a different question. thus the question you and everyone else who is a government official has a legal duty to report it to your superiors if you think some...

Aiding and abetting and encouraging and providing ass t assistance and support. number two, the concealing of information and obstruction of justice. >> obstruction of justice is different than collusion. do you think you will be able to draw a line from what you learned thus far in the judiciary committee, do you think you can draw the line in the investigation to collusion? >> what is significant is motive and intent. that will make or break this case. that is why we have a special prosecutor ...

If kushner and the trump administration had been approached by the russians who said, we have hacked e-mails that would picked up from hacking hillary clintons career and we would like to supply those hacked e-mails to assist you in getting elected, that may very well be a form of aiding and abetting a russian hacking operation into u.s. computers. and as you know, allan, there are federal statutes that ban such hacking. no -- >> no -- >> which is why we need an investigation by a special prosec...

>> meghan: this is a policy pinpoint that i get stuck on with people like geraldo who got excited about this on the couch. they think we should be doing business with russia to fight isis. my argument is that aiding and abandoning the state-sponsored terror and all these things was a big old to go on the internet and look at what it looks like, no we dont have the same interests. we have a long history of trying to reset with russia and it doesnt work. by the way, this entire mess wouldnt have h...

The united states, it just as it occurred in 1973. the united states versus nixon and a similar firing of a special prosecutor. >> comey was not fired because of hillary. he was fired because of the russians. >> as you pointed out, the whole echo of watergate is very strong here. >> there is absolutely no accountability with regard to this president. he basically seems to be able to do whatever he wants. and the republicans -- our republican friends -- aiding and abetting that situation. >> sean...

Is deadly serious. ultimately, there may be subpoenas to the president of the united states, it just as it occurred in 1973. at the united states versus nixon and a similar firing of a special prosecutor. >> comey was not fired because of hillary. he was fired because of the russians. >> as he pointed out, the whole echo of watergate is very stron. >> there is absolutely no accountability with regard to this president. he basically seems to be able to do whatever he wants. and the republicans --...

Him -- first of all, rachel, we have still not gotten one single syllable from the white house. thats very unusual. particularly when you have a bipartisan request. and id ask chairman chaffetz about now suddening those records and he has basically said hed not do that. and that leads me to another point, rachel. president trump, there is absolutely no accountability with regard to this president. he basically seems to be able to do whatever he wants. and our republican friends are aiding and ab...

Congressman chaffetz asked them for information about flynns tenure, his security clearance application process. whats the status of that now? >> chairman chaffetz asked him -- first of all, rachel, we have still not gotten one single syllable from the white house. thatsery unusual. particularly when you have a bipartisan request. and id ask chairman chaffetz about now suddening those records and he has basically said hed not do that. and that leads me to another point, rachel. president trump, ...

Michael flynn on january 26th warnings about potential to blackmail and why the white house waited for two and a half weeks before firing flynn and then only after there was a report about those warnings by attorney general yates to the white house. i want to build the case for a special prosecutor to do this investigation, to uncover the truth and hold accountable anyone and everyone who was involved in that aiding and abetting the russians. >> that is interesting. you would like to see a speci...

Whether they would go beyond that. but first, the justice department has to make their case that assange was somehow involved in leaking the classified information, not merely being the repository for someone who laid their hands on it all by themselves and then handed it to him to publish on his website. there is a big difference between those two potential fact patterns.ee >> greg: its a distinction between aiding and abetting and simply delivering material. >> absolutely. >> greg: i happen to...