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He has a pattern. What the pattern we have from donald trump is a lot of times hell lie about something that happens and hell do what he wants to do. All of this im convinced symone ive convinced her. I think you made a lot of progress with symone. All that matters, what will this mean if the president does meet with Special Counsel and asked about this . If he gives answers hes been giving to the media and others, it may not go well. Our coverage continues right now, cnn tonight with don lemon....

Through the underlings, and getting word, "we dont have to worry about carlos. hes good." then trump calling the property manager saying, "i understand youre good. i appreciate it. ill help you get a lawyer." it is worth everyones time to give it a read, to understand what the former president of the united states allegedly did here to obstruct the return of these documents. >> yeah, thats a great way to respond to critics of the indictment, "read the indictment." >> yeah. >> youre right, this i...

Explanation from the defense team, or from donald trump, about that document, which is the smokys gun youve got in the whole thing. >> if we knew what the document was. >> no -- >> because -- >> you dont need to know -- >> i will tell -- you >> -- its a government document. and he has no legal right to possess it. its in his desk and, as you said, quite correctly, the classification issue is not really that important in this case. because that is not what they used to attain the search warrant. ...

Yes, theres the obstruction element here because thats been such a big part, you know, with the movement of boxes in and out of the storage room. we have discussed it so often. but the fact that we are talking about the classified documents and what trump might have shown people, that is textbook espionage investigation under section 793 of title 18. >> again, this also shows that when donald trump has been talking about this, hes been lying time and time and time again. now, of course, as we sa...

The biden documents problem, not just presidential documents, going back to the senate, and you have the pence problem. you have other people, other offices -- >> doesnt the obstruction element make a difference? >> it should. and maybe it does. but merrick garland has a philosophy on, you cant charge resisting arrest without charge him with the arrest was for. you have trouble charging and insularity crime, of obstruction of justice if youre not charging the original crime which is the document...

>> brian, for you, an angle of that same question, does the existence of one investigation influence the treatment of the other? >> i mean, in reality it shouldnt but the practical reality is it will politically speaking because of the political sensitivities, but i do think from a criminal law perspective in terms of the department of justices precedence as well they are at least based on what we know so far very distinguishable cases where the biden case is not one that would normally rise to ...

This was bob mueller delivering what he thought, without adornment, without extra words. short, to the point, delivering his message and then stepping away as he hopes from the microphones permanently. well see if that hope comes through. >> andy yesterdays very stark performance, very muelleresque performance, seems to have focused in largely in public opinion terms in terms of what we do here every day on the obstruction element. because it was pretty well laid out in volume 2 of his report. b...

>> lets continue with the mountain theme and switch it to a frozen mountain, an iceberg. lets say that once again, nicol nico nicolle, were getting increasing glimpses of the submerged part of the iceberg, the part we havent seen yet. as that becomes more and more transparent to us, we learned today, this is what popped out at me, that remember what muellers all about. he starts as a counterintelligence, russian counterintelligence investigation, we know from andy mccabe that mccabe had added an...

That is exactly what theyre going to be examining, and unlike in the senate committee where you did have some, you know, a little bit of a partisan break down there, on the house side, theres going to be many more witnesses now coming in, including allen weisselberg that theyve already got cooperating and based on my reporting speaking with judiciary sources this morning, they are by fur kati -- bifurcating and taking it slow. they dont want it to be seen as overreach, going after the president,...

They already have cooperating and based on my reporting with judiciary sources, theyre bifurcating a lot of this and theyre taking it very slow because they dont want it to be seen as overreach. they dont want it to be seen as just going after the president willy-nilly partisanly. but there is going to be an obstruction element of this through the judiciary committee. on intelligence, the collusion part of this still has many more characters to play out. again to repeat myself from the first par...