David Chal On News Today

The best birthday for president trump. this is exactly the sort of headline, the headline bob mueller is now looking into possible obstruction of justice by the president. this is the kind of story line hes been trying so much to avoid. you remember it was last week that president trump and his legal team were saying he had been completely and totally vindicated pointing to jim comeys testimony that he had told the president on three separate occasions that he himself was not personally under in...

He is so fixated on this russia investigation. and thats going to isolate him and the white house down the line. >> i mean, look, we got two important time markers here. were right at about 24 hours since we learned and started covering the shooting here, david. and i think were at the two-year mark of when donald trump got into the game to be president. >> tomorrow, right? he road down the escalator -- >> we have this confluence of moment tus events. there is no question that people on the righ...

Saying the threat to national security from these leaks of private and highly classified conversations. so the white house clearly not happy about this. but also not explicitly denying this bombshell report. this is all happening, erin, as you know, the white house team, sean spicer among them, are on a plane heading to their first stop in this high-stakes foreign trip. theyre expected top land in saudi arabia early saturday morning, our time. a little before 4:00 a.m. well have to see what else...

Process. what is the political trigger to it, not the legal trigger to it. remember, republicans are in charge -- >> to do it, david, the cumulative bill -- >> but what im saying -- >> is so rapid, it has consumed the presidency. >> were not there yet. we havent seen that yet. we need to watch for this. the moment that republicans feel that donald trump is a threat to their political power is the moment you will see this escalate quickly towards something like that. well look for the polls to co...

>> no, no. this is a completed obstruction, arguably. i disagree with alans assessment. hes reaching back to aaron burrs trial and -- >> those people wrote the constitution. >> yes, i know they did. but richard nixon was -- you know, the impeachment charges against him, one of the biggest ones was based on obstruction of justice. and of course bill clinton obstruction of juflt so -- >> they did illegal -- >> modern history suggests that obstruction is a perfectly acceptable charge if you can pro...

Said lets follow the facts and i think were going to learn that there was absolutely no collusion with the trump administration. >> lets just be real here, but for once, wouldnt you feel more comfortable right now if pike pen mike pence were president right now? >> i like mike pence, but not necessarily. >> mike pence is in the white house when the president is gone. >> but trump is my president and pence is my friend and vice president. >> i think a lot of people are frustrated about the leaks ...

I think its pretty simple i hadnt had a chance to have the conversation directly with the president to say -- id had several conversations with him but i didnt ask that question direct hi had you already made that decision? i went off the information i had when i answered your question. ive since had the conversation with him right before i walked on today. and he laid it out very clearly he had already made that decision. hed been thinking about it for months which i did say yesterday and have ...

Performance when the inspector general of the department of justice is already doing that? havent heard of an answer to that. >> april you were in the room today well go over go ahead. >> i was in the room today. and it was fraught with a lot of questions and not many answers. and the many pr is as david said the issue of credibility is -- is there its the elephant in the room. and the problem is this president and some officials have been the boy and girl who crude cried wolf how many times the...

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Cue sin niche. david, so, again, the presidents tweets this morning were not the unity that some perhaps on capitol hill were hoping for in terms of a message. but you get it. president trump doesnt like this investigation. and he has pressed people time and again to say that he is not under investigation, that he is not the target of this investigation. he mentioned this as we all recall on nbc with lester holt. lets play a moment of that. >> i know that im not under investigation, me personall...