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Crime. >> bret: and there is evidence of it. >> right. then it becomes much more serious because then you can have obstruction issues that are real ones. its obstructing a crime. so the secondary crime could actually be more serious. >> bret: what the special counsel was told to do was get to the bottom of russias interference in the 2016 election. in that russia section we see the beginnings but we dont see all the puzzle pieces here. >> the good news here as well in the sense that the thing th...

Are looking for tomorrow. we have these two big documents on paul manafort and cohen. >> i think the most interesting and important thing to find out from paul manafort is what he lied about, what was it that caused his agreement with the special counsels office to fall apart, and the big mystery is the joint defense agreement, and whereby the attorneys were sharing information with one another. that raises a lot of questions about whether or not there was communication related to pardons, and i...

50% of the story. what happened with russia? and i suspect the special counsel knows already. >> thats just on the russia front. if you think about how sprawling this has become, were looking at russian interference, were looking at transition team issues, campaign finance issues with michael cohen, were looking at potential obstruction issues and now the special counsel with michael cohen has his sort of nose under the tent of the trump businesses. this thing has gotten very sprawling and phil ...

Constitution includes a clause which most people didnt notice which prohibits this sort of conduct in anticipation that someone might abuse it in our history. there is a lawsuit raising that constitutional issue. i think a president who will not disclose his income tax returns, who has not divested himself of his own business dealings leading this country and being subject to this kind of conduct is unacceptable in america. >> senator, you have been a big part of a bipartisan effort on criminal ...

Interview format badly enough he is willing to litigate over it. theres some reason to believe that might be the case. reportedly, these written questions only relate to the issue of russia collusion. the issue of obstruction of justice is not addressed reportedly in the written questions. even if robert mueller is satisfied with the written ants, he might have this other area to explore, the obstruction issues. the legal questions there tend to relate to mental state, not what the president did...

Conduct. rudy giuliani has indicated they probably wont respond to the ones that deal with the presidential transition period and the special counsel hasnt even asked b about the obstruction issues, so we are a long way from this process being complete completed. we also have coming up soon, testimony potentially from people like manafort, cohen, mike flynn. other indictments coming down the road, so whether the president answers will have to be evaluated in light of the testimony of other witne...

Enlightened them. what happened here, mcgahn was afraid the president was going to pin him for any obstruction issues. he was going to make him be the fall guy. mcgahn realized in order to protect himself, he had to lean as hard as possible into his cooperation with the special counsels office and show mueller that he had nothing to hide, and that he was a complete open book. that is an incredibly powerful thing for investigators to have in an investigation, where theyre looking at the president...

What you did last summer, or a few summers ago in the election. trumps lawyers say theyre not afraid of collusion questions, thats the kind of interview, they would allow, they say, one topic for trump. no subject of a probe gets to dictate the topics. we all know that by now. and we also know mueller is probing those obstruction issues around flynn and comey, and around trump coaching witnesses who attended the seemingly incriminating trump tower meeting. while rudy giuliani claims they do want...

>> one source told cnns jim acosta that the president is really directing much of the political strategy on the investigation. the legal strategy seems to be a political strategy here. rudy giuliani is embracing that. i wonder what you think his lawyers should be thinking about this approach. >> yeah, i think giulianis tactics are beginning to bear some fruit. hes getting more consistency in terms of what hes putting out there, but it is clear, his role is completely that of a spokesperson, a pr...

>> pompeo told lawmakers he believes no organization is exempt from malfeasance. jared kushners lawyer said he was questioned for a second time by robert mueller in the russia collusion and contacts with foreign nationals. also potential obstruction issues. kushner was interviewed by muellers team last november. the attorney says kushner team believes he is now finished with all ongoing inquiries. >> in the meantime, jared kushner cleared the security clearance. he lost the interim clearance i...