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Issue, i think in particular, the obstruction issue. and with richard nixon, obviously, that was the aspect of his presidency that brought him down, much more than the break-in to the watergate complex. and in this case were looking not simply at the election and the activities of advisers, but how did president trump respond. and was the firing of james comey, the fbi director, as president trump himself has suggested, an effort to push away this investigation? so its a very serious matter, and...

And at the same time the obstruction issue revolved in part about flynn with statements by president trump that he wanted the flynn investigation to go away. so it actually is quite important. hes a big piece of this puzzle inside the presidency, not just in the campaign. >> and samantha, president trumps lawyer said, quote, no one should draw the conclusion this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president, but as you read that, does it still indicate that perhaps the wh...

In 2015 was before the grand jury recently. so, you know, that would seem to be far afield from any of the core issues that people are looking for in this investigation. that doesnt mean thats all mueller is doing. its clearly not. hes been interviewing people at the white house relating to the obstruction issue, a whole host of areas. but its why its so important, were just going to have to wait and see what the precise indictments are. >> juliette, im wondering -- >> i think thats right -- >> ...

Lot of the activity that we know about is really unrelated to anything to do with the core allegations involving trump and russia. for instance, politico just moved a report earlier today that the realtor who sold manafort his condo in alexandria in 2015 was before the grand jury recently. so, you know, that would seem to be far afield from any of the core issues that people are looking for in this investigation. that doesnt mean thats all mueller is doing. its clearly not. hes been interviewing...

Fire rosenstein, and both those things are things he should not do. >> remember, talk about obstruction of justice. talk about satellites. the obstruction issue is pretty much a tangential issue to the counter intelligence probe where this all began. it may in fact be the president is making his bed of tweets and will eventually lie in them for a criminal obstruction charge. he may. but the realistic approach for the fbi and doj right now is this has begun as a counter intelligence probe. whatev...

Needs and that no one is interfering in that investigation in any way. so, right now, in the house, i would think the house judiciary committee ought to have an interesting in the obstruction issue, as well. but the speaker has only authorized one committee to investigate any of these things, and thats the intelligence committee. and so i think thats part of our responsibility. >> congressman conway, who is the republican that -- hes not the chairman of the committee, but hes the republican on w...

Said, if you have tapes, preserve them and hand them over by june 23rd. so i would hope and expect well get an answer by thursday of next week. the president has signaled that he is going to give an answer, but those would be the very best evidence. none of us, i think, can make heads or tails out of that tweet, he said, that was essentially threatening comey, you better look out, i have tapes or may have tapes. whether that was an idle threat, meant to intimidate the director or theres more to ...

We now have suggestions about the firing of mueller. he clearly said he would recuse himself from the russian investigation as a result of those false statements and results of those contacts, and then he was engaged in what many people think is the obstruction issue which is the firing of comey and how does he explain that after he recused himself? >> jon: and fairness to the now attorney general, he answered a long and rambling question from senator al franken that seem to be talking about oth...

Almost totally irrelevant what was true in february and january and march and april. the only questions now is what is true today and going forward? again as you have noted on the show, it was almost -- now were almost certain on the basis of two things. one, what comey said yesterday and suggested yesterday about mueller and obstruction of justice and, secondly, the fact that comeys notes, his memos, have been turned over to mueller and theyve not been turned over yet to the senate. theyre squa...

There might be a war room of some sort. now president trump has -- >> no war room. it hasnt materialized. >> you have someone who is preparing to such a high degree going up against a president who will be shooting blind. >> one of the things well be waiting for is to see whether or not the president of the united states decides to live tweet this testimony tomorrow. what do you think? >> i home he does. im disappointed you brought up earlier that mike pence will not be giving an interview with ...