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With robert mueller. first, just reminding people what the law is that he broke. this is a description of the law around obstruction, why its a crime to obstruct in any investigation. the attempt to remove this special counsel, that would be these efforts, these first two flash points where he tried to get his white house counsel to fire mueller, would qualify as an obstructive act, it would naturally obstruct the investigation and any grand jury proceedings that might flow from the inquiry. a f...

Intelligence community, the fbi, the attorney general when it suits his personal purposes. so i think we can expect to see more of the same. these attacks on the rule of law, and peter theyre incredibly unfortunate. we should not think theyre benign or harmless. they do a lot of damage to people across the country who become conflicted themselves and wonder if they can really trust law enforcement. that doesnt help anyone and its inappropriate for a president. >> the presidents position sort of ...

Regime is very strong, remarkably strong. the iranians are feel together. their economy is crumbling apart. the recream is in a very unstable position. at the end of the day, they are bad actors. since the 19 70s and before, theyve been doing bad things against the united states, allies and friends all over the world. so we need to hold them accountable. however, i agree with the presidents decision last night to pull back and not escalate this, not knot get us into another needless war, at a ti...

Regime is very strong, remarkably strong. the iranians are feel together. their economy is crumbling apart. the recream is in a very unstable position. at the end of the day, they are bad actors. since the 19 70s and before, theyve been doing bad things against the united states, allies and friends all over the world. so we need to hold them accountable. however, i agree with the presidents decision last night to pull back and not escalate this, not knot get us into another needless war, at a ti...

There is blame, counter-blames and it is very unclear what is going on here. but with the absence of dialogue between these two countries with all of this animosity, there is a danger of stumbling into a conflict by accident and the persian gulf is certainly one of those major flash points. >> that indeed. that is a danger many people are fearful of. in the meantime what, are we learning about a possible drone attack just before these tankers were -- these tanker attacks? >> reporter: that is ri...

Debates this is going to be one of several flash points where the newer, younger, fresher-fashed democrats say sorry, joe, that party is not around anymore. >> and bidens campaign is not committing to this in stone. they are saying essentially he would be open to repeal down the line. the country is different. not just the democratic party is different, hed be going to a supreme court where hes got two new conservative judges in the last couple years alone and suddenly were talking about "roe v....

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Take here. and these cases we have been waiting on these cases and now we see that the supreme court will not be hearing them. so youre right, the supreme court has pretty consciously decided to keep back from these huge controversies that could potentially be huge flash points in the election, no doubt will be, and perhaps youre right, perhaps there are political motivations that they dont want to be embroiled in huge controversies at such a crucial time. >> you wonder if the chief justice is i...

There is stuff going on in lebanon. and then there is the persian gulf. there are all kinds of flash points. and by ratcheting up the pressure and being so ultra anti-iranian, it makes it difficult for the united states to back down. what we find in situations like this for america is its very hard to back down because then your prestige is on the line, your credibility is on the line. this is a lot of what happened in vietnam where you just cant find a way to back down so, you ratchet up. im wo...

World. there are iranian militias in iraq. there are iranian militias in syria. there is stuff going on in lebanon. and then there is the persian gulf. there are all kinds of flash points. and by ratcheting up the pressure and being so ultra anti-iranian, it makes it difficult for the united states the back down. what we find in situations like this for america is its very hard to back down because then your prestige is on the line, your credibility is on the line. this is a lot of what happened...