Obstruction Effort News Today

-- walt nauta, and the final count is four false statement. trump and are set to be -- the indictment laying out detailed allegations against the two, with pictures showing boxes showing classified documents stored in the bathroom. the twice impeached, now twice indicted former president is on the campaign trail today, speaking at republican state conventions at both georgia and north carolina. earlier today, trumps former lawyer, michael cohen weighed in on the case. >> this is more t...

Those guys in pennsylvania and West Virginia will not help him. The kids are coming to washington in two weeks. Maybe a million of them demanding something be done. He cant hide in the white house bunker when kids and teachers say you have to do something. At that 340e789 it, hope hicks, his most loyal person walks. Theres a lot there. Youve seen the unraveling of the power structure. Veteran republican operatives, seasoned Military Figures and the family and inner circle. Hope hicks, if josh ra...

Trump is allegedly back at the white house. We should mention, this happens under president s of both parties. Usually a motorcade snafu. They were eventually gathered up. And we show you what we keep out back here, the Rockefeller Center tree is up and lit. A 75footer from the new york suburbs. It certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. And that is our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. And good night from nbc news headquarte...

His attorneys today hoping to convince smith to change course. no word on exactly what was discussed, or how the special counsel reacted to their entreaties. >> david: as pierre just reported, they did meet today with jack smith about the potential indictment coming, still to come, on january 6th, again, potential, until we actually see that. instead, whats happened tonight is this super ceding indictment, new and serious charges involving the classified documents at mar-a-lago. and you have the...

Moment of obstruction that is in charge. -- as a coconspirator in that obstruction effort. we also knew about the tape that cnn first reported, where trump is heard actively disseminating national defense information to people who are not authorized to hear about it during a meeting in bedminster. but actually, the most serious point in this indictment was not previously known. i think the most serious incident was when trump was showing the map, the classified map to a staffer at his action com...

Youll never take back our country with weakness. you fight like hell and if you dont fight like hell, youre not going to have a country anymore. donald trumps words replayed in an opinion like this is part of the extraordinary circumstances that have led this appeals court to decide that there is no privilege, no credible claim of privilege on the ex-presidents part, could be the beginning of the end of this element of trumps obstruction effort with the 1/6 committee, jonathan. >> yeah. youre ce...

Democrats are aware that mcconnell is playing pure politics with this and have yet to signal whether his offer is feasible in their view. one democratic senator has already called it, quote, b.s. for the u.s. the stakes could not be higher. if republicans follow through on their obstruction effort in effect they would be responsible for the delay of benefit payments to tens of millions of retirees, medicare, and medicaid providers and numerous rouse others receiving checks from the u.s. treasury...

Separate investigations amounting to what many call the most expansive white house obstruction effort in decades. the latest act blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from answering questions in front of congress. that puts congress and the democrats in a tough position of what to do next. we are joined by leon panetta, former white house chief of staff. i would like you to talk about the role of the white house. how do you assess these declarations of presidential power and congress? >...

Before he was going to be sentenced that was eventually delayed but before he was going to be sentenced. the government outlocated all the things he cooperated on but significant portions that have filing were redacted. now with the mueller report being publicly releases and with flynn only awaiting sentencing, the judge decided to unredact or push prosecutors to unredact certain parts of this filing. thats how we got this yesterday, information about the obstruction case and it was information ...

Part of the original olc opinions that were issued by the justice department, which are historical and there was one written in the nixon years, another one thats authoritative that was written in the clinton years, talk about the fact that an indictment would affect the president into not being able to carry out his duties. this president as a factual matter spends a lot of his time actually doing things that are not presidential. tweeting, executive time, golfing, all of those things. and i ac...