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Testifying the right way. all those classic things, which is what -- destruction of evidence, which is what nixon and watergate was about. if mueller has something like that, all of these other statements and things that president trump did would be evidence -- further evidence of his intent. but those things alone under the arthur anderson case, under the case law as i understand it, could never constitute obstruction because as corrupt as it may be in the lay sense, the president has the legal...

It sounded like a very unimportant meeting. >> so unimportant meeting, sound like an unimportant meeting. michael, that is synced up with what don junior said when he was testifying to the congressional committees. >> correct. theres a lot of folks under oath who say he did not know, don junior saying the president didnt know about it, other folks, i believe jared kushner testifying to the same thing. the president obviously maintaining that he knew nothing about it, including after it came out....

Executive privilege limiting her testimony. here is the democratic congressman eric swalwell last hour when he said this at 9:00. >> no secret that hope hicks is a relevant witness for us. she is one of the closest advisors to the president. that was the case throughout the campaign, the transition, and all the way up until today. >> bill: catherine herridge live in d.c. lets start there. good morning. >> we anticipate that white house communications director hope hicks will arrive at any time f...

Could not defend herself when i was asking questions about what was your role in crafting a statement for john kelly? what was your role in defending rob porter? she wouldnt answer and there are a lot of staffers that i talked to who are saying off the record that they are appalled that john kelly defended rob porter. they thought he was going to be a better chief of staff than this. and now youre facing this uprising within the ranks of the white house staff. >> you talk about an uprising, we s...

>> im going to give you the last word here. this is -- i want to get this reporting in. this is cnns m.j. lee reporting that porters ex-wife says he punched her in the face, gave limb the photo to prove it in january of 2017. that is more than a year ago. so for folks saying well kelly didnt know. is there an excuse for him not knowing? >> no, he either chose not to know or more likely did he know and didnt care. he thought this man was more important to him than the stories about the women. he ...

Important realize hickss portion of the investigation is more on the obstruction side of things. she was also reportedly involved in the crafting a statement so when trump tower news broke you kushner and trump jr. with a russian lawyer the president of th united states was supposedly involved in crafting a statement that his son made that turned out to be highly misleading planned mueller is investigating that and hicks is involved in that statement so her pieces of this investigation have real...

2016 election. that is clearly something the white house is unhappy about, these constant references to russia, vladimir putin, did russia somehow influence the election? >> thats where the investigation started but now mueller is looking into two things. the firing of james comey and whether through trumps admitted statement about it being about the russia investigation and also the crafting of the response to the john jr. meeting and whether those people who were around him on that plane home ...

What, for example, did these aides that are around the presidents shoulder, what did they hear the president say when he was crafting a statement with his son on air force one about how to spin/describe the reason that his son, donald trump jr., met with a russian lawyer in the middle of the campaign? you know, these overheard conversations are -- these people are also players. remember that reince priebus, the former white house chief of sta staff, is a person that the president asked to leave ...