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Get your reaction to william barr and his narrow definition of obstruction. how do you plan on voting on his confirmation? more importantly, what did you make of his definition of obstruction of justice. >> two key points here. weve been talking about the mueller report. i was deeply disappointed that william barr said that he would not disclose that report to congress or the public, that he would disclose only his version of it, redacting or changing it. and i will not vote for him unless he co...

Obstruction of justice. then last night a report that describes president trump doing exactly that. welcome to "morning joe" this january 18th. joe is off. we have me and this big team to react to this big news. editor of commentary magazine and columnist at the new york post and editor and chief of "law fair," benjamin wittis. were going to get to the shutdown 28 days in and incredible dynamics between the president and nancy pelosi as americans worry about their next paycheck, president trump ...

President of the united states and we know trump isnt going to do this, unless he hears i will commit to this particular plan, mitch mcconnell seems to believe he can get away with doing next to nothing. i dont think thats going to work. at some point, its going to put p get him in trouble in his home state. but thats what he believes right now about the shutdown. the secondary thing is this, when it comes to this kind of report, i do think hes going to be in trouble. assuming the report, i thin...

W. bush. glen, let me get to you about all this. how much does mueller know in all this? the interesting part of the buzzfeed reporting is that cohen is not the source. at one point, its cited there are two law enforcement officials but if we were to assume that the report is true, which we havent independently verified, but they have access to trump organization e-mails, text memssages and other documents, it would make me think surely the president in the position of being the president would ...

Involved in the investigation of the matter. msnbc news has not individually confirmed that report. donald trump and his children received regular updates about the real estate development from cohen, who they put in charge of the project, despite trumps repeated claims to have no business deals with russia. cohen told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie by claiming negotiations had ended months earlier than they actually did in order to ob...

Obligation to come out sooner than this report and at least present that portion of this finding. >> having worked directly for bob mueller and learned in part how to be a federal prosecutor from bob mueller, i would not presume to tell bob mueller how to do his job. it does seem like theres a certain urgency involved if the mueller investigation has strong evidence that michael cohen lied to congress, not about something minor, but about something like potential lies by the president, russian c...

Happened. john deans testimony before the senate committee. this could be his john dean moment, which, of course, this is the watergate committee. could this be donald trumps john dean moment? >> there are a lot of reasons to believe that it could be. i think certainly michael cohen in many ways would like it to be. he seems to enjoy the idea hes going to be seen as kind of this, you know, figure who redeemed himself, came forward with information that the american people needed to know. you kno...

Probe. for the first time, reporting that donald trump directed someone to break the law. reportedly telling michael cohen to lie to congress, specifically about his contacts with russia. were going cover this story from all angles. donald trumps attorney general pick saying this kind of action would be a crime, and one of the senators who questioned him joins me live on the program tonight. plus, trump familys involvement in the moscow project, what trump was saying publicly about russia when...

Political liability for the president versus the criminal liability, and jill, i want to get your reaction. theres renewed attention on an exchange that amy klobuchars exchange with tthat people are g at more closely. >> the president persuading a person to commit justice would be obstruction. is that right? >> yes. >> okay. >> or any -- well, any person who persuades another -- yeah. >> you also said a president or any person convincing a witness to change testimony would be obstruction. is tha...

>> i think one of the things that tostood out the most for m. going with the buzzfeed report, saying there were e-mails and documentation from the trump org to back this up. we dont know if the e-mails specifically back up the fact that present trump directed michael cohen to, you know, sort of mislead congress about the time line or if those e-mails just back up the idea that the president knew about this idea well into the summer unlike they had been saying previously. the president does not u...