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In the special counsel report makes reference to this voicemail and interprets it to be an effort to interfere and perhaps obstruct, perhaps, with what mike flynn is trying to do to cooperate with the government. they interpret it to be something that is one of the obstructive things that were being done behind the scenes. the only question was, was dowd acting at the behest of the president? we dont know. >> lets ask our legal expert here. you say this voicemail is is out of a mob textbook. bre...

Prince mr principles of how justice is accomplishes, how we deal with people and engage in arguments and should do in the public square. the phrase that i inherited when i was in the southern district was a mantra for us. not a slogan but a mission statement for us, which is your job is to do the right thing for the right reasons and the right way every day. no one is perfect. the office isnt perfect. it will never be perfect. no one is perfect. journalists are not, prosecutors are not, judges a...

Adam schiff and members of the committee are probably looking at this in a similar way to the way the mafia operates. and precisely because the testimony of michael cohen that also corroborates that, the idea that a lot of this case will be built, if any, against the president of the united states and the investigation based not on direct statements or orders but a lot of innuendo and the assumption of what one wants through their body language or the pats on the back that come later. much the w...

There was no explicit direction from president trump but he felt he knew what the president wanted based on a sort of code that he understood over the decade or so that he worked for donald trump. how revealing was that to you? >> thats another example of what some people are growing tired of saying, and the first time it was said seemed shocking to say about the president of the united states and the people who hes assembled around him. its the kind of thing you see in mob cases. its the kind o...

On the house oversight committee. but we do know this. we have a stunning tweet ahead of all of this from a united states congressman. and you might be shocked when i read you the tweet of matt gaetz, ahead of the testimony of michael cohen. he tweeted do your wife and father-in-law know about your girlfriends? maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. i wonder if shell remain faithful when youre in prison. shes about to learn a lot. he has since apologized and deleted that defeat. but t...

About everything, i assume to protect a father-in-law or whatever -- whoever hes still trying to protect. >> you know, the interesting thing is, you know -- in mob cases they always wrap up the accountant. weisselbergs testifying. then they wrap up the consigliere. michael cohen is that figr for the last ten, 12 years of donald trumps life. there are a lot of webs that he had a hand in, and a lot of those what youre going to have are things going to peel back and open up new avenues of investiga...

And glen kirschner, former federal prosecutor. theres -- you know, 350e7ival used very strong language. mob tactics is something members of congress have said. as a federal prosecutor, what do you think? >> it is mob tactic. i it dont think thats hyperbole. i did mob cases for 15 years and this is right out of their playbook. >> so you had a cooperating witness and someone else would publicly tell that person. >> this is why its harder for people to maybe see. so i think glen and i have both use...

From him. >> meanwhiles there trr a growing concern about the presidents obvious witness tampering. what theyre describing as mob tactics in front of all of our faces. and glen kirschner, former federal prosecutor. theres -- you know, 350e7ival used very strong language. mob tactics is something members of congress have said. as a federal prosecutor, what do you think? >> it is mob tactic. i it dont think thats hyperbole. i did mob cases for 15 years and this is right out of their playbook. >> s...

So you cant prosecute me. and of course prosecutors are skilled at getting phone conversations and understanding whos giving the orders and whos benefitting from whatevers going on with the criminal activity and thats how these cases are made and thats how the guy at the top of the organization gets prosecuted every time. giuliani knows this, its so its disingenuous to say trump was at a box at the top of the campaign and didnt know what his underlings were going on. thats contrary from everythi...

>> its the president, if its to be believed, to the federal drug enforcement authorities in mexico, state and local police that were frustrating the united states from even being able to capture them at certain times, turning them away, judges being bribed, it went everywhere. so this is like something that you really cant believe. i have to be honest with you, these agents that went in there and entinterdicted and toughing right now, ive seen mob cases, this is the real deal because they have a...