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Say that enough other information comes up to suggest -- because, as you said, we cant know what hes thinking. were going to see the use of circumstantial evidence to decide that he had that intent. if worst case scenario. and then you trigger the question, the constitutional question of can we proceed down this road at all. the obstruction cases youre talking about in federal courts are correct, but they arent against a president who had the authority to direct the executive branch -- >> but th...

Obstruction cases and big terrorism cases and i asked them, did you hear obstruction today? would you make a case? and 10 out of 10 said not a chance, no way. not going to happen. even comey himself said im not going to make the call on obstruction. i thought i heard him say a direction but he said "i hope." no case a prosecutor would make on a he said-he said case. we would be good for all of us to take a deep breath, go back to facts and provable things and stop the supposition. hasnt served t...

Mark warner, diane feinstein, and also the same thing up until a week ago, no evidence of collusion, but the black helicopter tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist on cnn, msnbc, the thousands hours of coverage, they lied to the a american people at a spectacular level. what does it say? >> i remember senot of smoke, n. there is a burning house tonigh tonight. theres been a lot of breathless overextended reporting that does not meet up with the facts, does not serve the public well. if there is a real...

Obstruction cases and big terrorism cases and i asked them, did you hear obstruction today? would you make a case? and 10 out of 10 said not a chance, no way. not going to happen. even comey himself said im not going to make the call on obstruction. i thought i heard him say a direction but he said "i hope." no case a prosecutor would make on a he said-he said case. we would be good for all of us to take a deep breath, go back to facts and provable things and stop the supposition. hasnt served t...

>> before i get paige in, do you have a response? >> sure. thats a beautiful display of potential interferences drawn and speculation that can arise as a result of what this meeting is, but thats a far cry from everybody throwing around words like, obstruction of justice, impeachable offense, all the rest. look, i am a lawyer, and because im a lawyer having both prosecuted obstruction cases and defended obstruction cases, obstruction requires proof of corrupt intent, and i got to tell you, witho...

Decide. or was this something that would be passable. it is hard to make an obstruction of justice case. this is one of the things, the question that is out there is will mueller try to stitch these things together in order to build a case? >> the other argument, the legal rationale that mueller is referring to is not just obstruction but witness intimidation. what about that? >> it would be part of a wider obstruction probe. the question is by his public statements and tweets would he be trying...

Subpoenaed. let me move on to this new reporting out of "the new york times" that mueller, the presidents tweets, "the new york times" writes this. the prosecutors who lack one slam dunk piece of evidence in obstruction cases often search for a larger pattern of behavior. explain how that works. >> certainly. i think sometimes when people think of witness tampering they have an image of some big guy with a crowbar coming to your door saying youd better not testify. >> not the case. >> thats not ...

Looking for. he hasnt been providing them, at least so far in the interviews hes given. essaying this is because its classified stuff. >> paul: what about that, dan? i have a similar reaction to jason, that it didnt advance the ball all that much beyond what we knew. what do you think? >> i think thats right. one thing we can say that is if the idea at the center of this is that the president committed obstruction of justice, this will be one of the weakest obstruction cases ever brought if the ...