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Cited several possible charges including conspiracy to defraud the u.s., deprivation of rights under a cover of law which applies when someone uses power to deny constitutional rights, and witness tampering and obstruction of an official proceeding, the january 6th electoral council certification. >> this goes to the top of the most serious charges the president will face. this is of a constitutional dimension. we have never seen anything like this in the history of our country. >> reporter: the...

There are certain individuals, the employees who could be part of an obstruction count. but as far as a larger document retention co-defendants, thats not something that ive seen yet, but certainly something i would be interested to see. >> you, since leaving the legal team -- and i want to hear what laura has to ask you of this as well -- have criticized who the current legal team is. do you think the current legal team he has right now is prepared to handle this documents investigation out of ...

People should be looking for. we may know as soon as tomorrow. maybe longer. is, is there any evidence of dissemination? is there any sort of thing that says this was not just illegal retention. but also dissemination? so far were not hearing that. because its not been indicated as as separate type of crime. which could be. and obviously, the obstruction count could be quite devastating and the way that it is articulated by jack smith in the indictment. because it really could go through chapter...

Criminal prosecution. and the department is under no obligation to adopt the house committees conclusions. one charge that both the january 6 committee and doj prosecutors have placed at the center of their work is obstruction of an official proceeding before congress. prosecutors have already used the obstruction count and nearly 300 criminal cases to describe how the rioter whos stormed the capitol on january 6 disrupted the certification of the election that was taking place there during that...

>> its three or four pages in the report, there are boxes. on the left, the box says, heres something that he was told. -- there was no fraud with voting machines. the next box is the next day, he is lying again. after hes been told again and again, you lost, theres no evidence. this is bad. he just repeats the lie. >> why does that matter? >> on the obstruction count and the conspiracy count, that intent. did you know, were you advised that thing you are doing is lying? like george had said, th...

Going down here, found guilty of other obstruction counts. so he is probably the only not guilty charge that he was found not guilty of, thomas caldwell was found not guilty of preventing a member of congress from discharging a duty. >> well get to caldwell in a second. >> reporter: thats where were at. im sorry, meggs, i apologize. >> you keep saying obstructing an official proceeding when i think you mean disrupting a transfer of power. kelly meggs -- >> reporter: there are two. >> there are t...

0 as a geopolitical showdown. cnns don is in qatar. what were some of the highlights of the u.s. win? >> reporter: jake, well, there werent many highlights, it was a pretty tense affair, but the main thing is that christian scored the winning goal, and thats taken the united states through to their first knockout game since 2019. youve referenced the buildup to this game, how tense it was, it was interesting watching the iranian players, again, during the anthem. they appeared to mouth the natio...

>> well, on the one level, you know, theyve got trump now. they could bring charges against donald trump this week if they choose to. on the obstruction count and probably one or more of the others. he was -- he takes documents that didnt belong to him. he gets subpoenaed to return those documents, he returned 15 boxes or 15 boxes are returned and then the fbi finds that he didnt return everything and he returned finally they do the search and they get 11. on that, theyve got him. they could bri...

Enough. in fact, ten republicans voted against perjury charges. the obstruction count wound up split 50-50. but no matter how its handled this is not a good place for any president. really hes the second in modern history to likely have impeachment stain their name, and with that stain always comes some stink. with as far back as andrew johnson his party saw him as damaged goods. didnt even nominate him for re-election. nixon conceded, and ford did this. >> i, gerald r. ford, president of the un...

Lott talking about were held behind closed doors. certainly kept media and messing around to a minimum. that allowed sober minds to struggle with the prospect of removing the president over an affair, especially with clinton reaching epic heights of popularity for cutting major policy deals while in the midst of a foreign military engagement, u.s. air strikes against iraq. now, you compare that with the tweet-dominant master of mayhem and the executive time of trump under facts that are far more...