Obstruction Prosecution News Today

the race is on. run for the holiday weekend, but not before we tell you how jammed the roads and skies are. new data just released on crowded airports. a dress rehearsal for obstruction. a new report says mar-a-lago employees moved boxes of papers the day before the fbi searched trumps home for classified documents, and they allegedly held a practice session weeks before. what the fbi is now investigating. and the terrifying moments captured on camera after a passenger opens an eme...

side of the screen, a motorcade escort of the indicted twice impeached ex-president donald trump. he is on route from his airport which landed at laguardia to manhattan to his apartment in trump tower. he will reportedly stay the night there ahead of his history making arrangement in the alleged hush money scheme. tomorrow there are a lot of open questions, a lot of vital considerations being made. even at this late hour first, security. as you might well imagine, the nypd is well awar...

Was a former president that had these documents and, therefore, the status of them remains a very open question at this point legally speaking. >> the status of them does remain a separate question but that might -- an important question but might be a separate question here. if you know that people are coming to serve a subpoena or execute i should say a subpoena on one day and then you move stuff the day before, that could be problematic because? >> sure. and that absolutely could be the basis...

A decent lawyer who can tell him exactly whats going on so that he doesnt live in his fantasy land of being a 3-year-old and saying everything is mine because i was president. >> pete strzok, quick last question do you think bill barr has testified in the documents investigation? he is an incredibly -- it is noteworthy how enthusiastic he is about an obstruction prosecution for trump. >> short answer, no. i mean, he has not mentioned it. i havent seen reporting anywhere that he has he clearly wa...

A case where a witness has asserted even a tenuously legitimate privilege, it becomes much more difficult for doj to decide it will bring an obstruction prosecution. but if meadows is clearly outside of the scope, that becomes easier. alysia, whats so stunning here is just the utter banality of evil. the notion that you would use a power powerpoint, you know, something that your kids homework would be on or to create this invitation to conspiracy. now the doj has some fresh information to consid...

There is no o, its called fighting back. the point i have here is obstruction. if thats all they come up with, and theres no crime except for obstruction, but theres no underlying crime whether its money laundering or collusion or anything like that, should they go ahead with it? >> i think it depends on the level of proof they have, how convinced they are that there was obstruction, and what the impact the obstruction had on the investigation. we remember pat fitzgerald who renato worked with o...