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Preconceptions about blocking the cereal. until our work team reviews the report, we cannot weave the executive privilege. we prefer that as much of the report as possible as public." with a grand jury in pennell, rudy giulianis has the legal team believes it can answer any allegations or insinuations about russia collusion. "we believe any obstruction argument against president trump will fail. the real obstruction is the loss of text messages between peter strzok and fbi lawyer lisa page that ...

Cohen memo. i think it will detail for the first time some of the specifics about what cohen talked with individual one about. of course, individual one is the president of the united states. and i think were going to learn a lot more about the sense to which donald trump knew about the moscow trump tower project deep into the presidential campaign during 2016. that basically means that trump was overseeing the financial ties between the trump organization and the kremlin during 2016. the same t...

The supreme court credit. we didnt think anything could blot out the sun that donald trump has, but it there is a coordinated western ally attack of sorts today or i guess you call it a clearly some coordination fingering the russians for a whole slew of different things. and it happened. these werent coincidences today and denmark. you had london. i think the canadians put out a supplemental report. i think the australians did too. not connected to mueller, but it is connected to putins motivat...

Ago saying, these are some of the things wed be interested in. one of them was, for example, what was the purpose of your may 12th, 2017 tweet? that was the tweet in which he said to comey, you better hope there are no tapes. so theyre already interested in tapes. then he said, what was the purpose of your september and october statements including tweets, regarding james comey? what was the purpose of your july 17 tweet regarding mr. sessions? its very clear that if theyre going to make an obst...

Mueller team is investigating that statement that was put out. >> sure. >> because it potentially could be some sort of obstruction argument. >> and we also know that senator chris coons is saying that don jr. lied before the senate judiciary committee, and i have what he said here and he was wiggling around this, but you know, my question is why is the presidents attorney and rudy giuliani talking about impeachment so much? i cant really understand that. why is he so sure that this is, in fact,...

Cooperate with mueller. >> are you going to talk to mueller? >> im looking forward to it, actually. >> you want to. >> theres been no collusion whatsoever. there is no obstruction whatsoever, and im looking forward to it. >> do you have a date set? >> i guess theyre talking about two or three weeks, but i would love to do it. >> here to talk about it, frank fagluizzi, who in the past has worked for robert mueller, hes our national security analyst. and chuck rosenberg worked under both robert mu...

Worked for robert mueller, hes our national security analyst. and chuck rosenberg worked under both robert mueller and james comey when they were running fbi. hes also a former u.s. attorney himself and a current msnbc contributor. gentlemen, welcome to you both. frank, you went to law school. how does this possibly add to an obstruction argument? >> yeah, so a key element of an obstruction of justice charge is intent. so tonight in the long string of conduct that weve had the president play out...

Himself and a current msnbc contributor. gentlemen, welcome to you both. frank, you went to law school. how does this possibly add to an obstruction argument? >> yeah, so a key element of an obstruction of justice charge is intent. so tonight in the long string of conduct that weve had the president play out that all point to obstruction, its this one, this intent to fire someone because youve learned theyre looking at you for obstruction, it actually sounds like a bad law school exam question, ...

>> martha: what do you think? >> it is not obstruction of justice, not even close. obstruction of justice is a crime. it has elements prior to senator is correct. there isnt any case ever prosecuted on these types of facts. so the question is, how significant is it that the president allegedly said these things? it isnt in my view inappropriate for some of these things to be set if they were said, but we have to distinguish between what is a crime or impeachable and what is bad form. you do not ...

Maxine waters, brennan, clapper. all of them. no evidence of collusion. >> case should be closed, total vindication. only one other thing. president obama. people are going to forget this but i want to remember because i handled this case in court. in the middle of a criminal investigation into the irs targeting of conservative organizations, in the middle of that investigation, the president of the united states said there was not even a smidge of corruption while the investigation was open and...