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of people that included roger stone and steve bannon urging trump to declare victory regardless of the results, the actual legal results, of the 2020 election. now the january 6th select committee cites a memo that fitton wrote for trump in the run-up to election day, i think the summer before the election, as evidence that in the words of committee member zoe love gren friend the big lie was untensional, promeditated and a plan concocted in advance. heres a snippet from the january 6t...

Telling them they are going to charge him, and he is discussing the possibility of cooperating. that would be the most exciting you could say for why hes there now. >> the most exciting. harry, or the most plausible. tell me what would come before and after a fitton appearance because as you rightly point out we simply have little dots of a contellation, we dont have the whole picture. what could he be part of and maybe start with january 6th and then take me over to mar-a-lago? >> fine. first, ...

Because i think that could backfire. >> joining me now is former watergate assistant prosecutor, john sail. john, i appreciate your time. you heard from former cia director leon panetta. do you agree with that, that were coming close? >> with all respect to secretary panetta, none of us know what mr. mueller is doing, but logically, sure, theyre coming close. ive never had a client, and you had a guest on in the prior segment, a former prosecutor. he laid out a good process for obstruction, that...

Starts to talk about firing rosenstein, this becomes a defining moment, not only for the trump administration but for john kelly. if kelly doesnt step in and stop that, or if he goes along with that, i think it will destroy his reputation. he will go down in history as a chief of staff who betrayed his country and the rule of law. those are the stakes were talking about right now. >> i want to go to numbers with regard to how americans have interpreted these reports and theyre from a monmouth un...

>> i dont know thats bob mullers job to sort that out. >> the special counsel will try to work to understand whether the obstruction intent was tlft thats the first obvious reason we believe the special counsel, bob muller is investigating whether anyone potentially including the president might have try to obstruct justice in the russia investigation. first reason we think that is bluntly because james comey said so yesterday under oath twice. the other reason we believe that the special counse...

First reason is because james comey said so under oath yesterday twice. >> do you sense the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for mike flynn to save face given he had already been fired. >> general flynn at that point was in legal jeopardy. there was an open fbi criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts and the contacts themselves. so that was my assessment at the time. i dont think its for me to say whether the conversation ...

>> do you sense that the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek a way for mike flynn to save face given he had already been fired? >> general flynn at that time was in legal jeopardy. there was an open fbi criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts and the contacts themselves. and so that was my assessment at the time. i dont think its for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a ver...

Time. i dont think its for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but thats a conclusion im sure the special counsel will work towards to understand the intention there. >> do you believe this will arise to the obstruction of justice? >> i dont know thats bob mullers job to sort that out. >> the special counsel will try to work to understand whether the obstruction intent was tlft thats the fir...