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The way people talk about, id love to get rid of him or her or whatever. thats very different from actually undertaking, in a systemic methodical way, obstructing an investigation. and certainly you wouldnt do it by firing the figure head. mark: this was a case, i think, that the president knew he had had nothing do with russia, he was being falsely accused every day stean media was picking this up not to report the news but rat to get at the president himself personally. and i think he did this...

The house judiciary committee subpoenas a new former trump aide as the impeachment inquiry continues to heat up. rob porter is a key mueller witness in the obstruction case against trump. he was the white house staff secretary controlling every piece of official paper the president saw, resulting in a near constant presence around mr. trump. well, the mueller report details how trump asked porter to reach out to d.o.j. official about taking over the special counsel investigation. porter refused ...

Pull a frank pentangeli, which is a reference to hiding from congress what you knew. frank, of course, is the character from the godfather part 2 who played a mobster who was going to be a big witness, but then, in dramatic fashion, recanted right when he was supposed to talk to congress. >> i was in the olive oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago. thats all. he kept saying mike did this and michael corleoni did that. so i said, yeah, sure. >> this, that. frank has come to...

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Actually undertaking a systemic methodical way, obstructing an investigation, you would not do it by firing the figure head. mark: this is a case i think that president knew he had nothing to do with russia, he was being falsely accused every day, and media picking up this not to respect the news but to get at -- not to report the news but to get at president, i think he did this out of frustration as an american innocence person. >> you talk about obstruction case as a prosecutor, you think can...

Bludgeoned to be talking to say something negative about the president. if i were president, i would be appalled that kind of conduct was being carried out by the department of justice when is responsible to me. mark: you look at the supreme court decision in 2005, involving artur anderson, weismans case, it was an obstruction case, it was about 8 pages long. 9 to 0, written by chief justice rehnquist. you cant have such a broad interpretation of obstruction this is a serious crime. you are a fo...

You would hope congress would get on its own without having to dig through muellers trash. not having to go back through what hes already done. theyre at that point. they have not been able so far to get don mcgahn and hope hicks to testify. you have to look at the clock, the election coming up. i remember heading into mueller day, we said the bigger testimony would be mcgahn. he was the cooperative witness. he talked to mueller over 30 times. he was at the heart of the obstruction accusations. ...

That percentage has gone up 15 percentage points. even among democrats, the distrust is growing. this is not going in a good direction for the democrats given the time, effort, and promises. most people are saying lets ge going, lets wrap this up at. >> i think most americans have sense of what happened here. number one the conclusions conspiracies let coordination whatever you want to call it, the president is totally exonerated and that. the obstruction front he overreacted he did some things ...

Percentage points. even among democrats, the distrust is growing. this is not going in a good direction for the democrats given the time, effort, and promises. most people are saying lets get going, lets wrap this up. >> i think most americans have a sense of what happened here. number one the colusions/ conspiracies/coordination whatever you want to call it, the president is totally exonerated and that. the obstruction front he overreacted he did some things that were not lies that were disturb...

Mueller and when that was reported by "the new york times" he tried to get don mcgahn the counsel were talking about to deny it and he refused to do it because he said no, the story is true. that speaks to probably exhibit "a" in the -- at the evidence of the obstruction case. >> one of the -- one of the other points, the republicans are trying to score some points. congressman ratcliffe made the point its not standard procedure for a prosecutor to say im not exonerating this person even though ...