Obstruction Section News Today

investigation has revealed evidence that mr. cipollone repeatedly raised other and legal concerns about president trumps activities of january 6th and while the select committee appreciates mr. cipollones earlier informal engagement with our investigation, with the ball now squarely in cipollones quote the new york times is out with some important reporting, quote, the subpoena of a white house counsel a rare step for a congressional committee sent a clear signal of the aggressive tact...

an injustice senior justice correspondent ivan perez. hes covering the hearing for us in fort pierce, florida, just north of palm beach oven, you were inside the court today. how to judge cannon handle todays important hearing? >> well, if this was a very unusual hearing in the first place, and judge cannon had some very sharp questions for the government, for the prosecution she questioned the prosecutors about what specific actions the attorney general, merrick garland oversaw action...

Doesnt exactly have the most pristine background so he is identified by name in the mueller report is having a close relationship with giuliani and then in the muller report, theres a very strong implication that hes involved in dangling a pardon with michael cohen that on the same day that trump had said michael cohen wont flip publicly that because that costello sends him a note that says you have friends in high places. sleep well tonight, michael and its in the obstruction section. the muell...

Pages of an obstruction section of the report. so if you were to get cipollone, you were going to have someone that has a very good sense of what the law was and a very good sense of what trump was trying to do and how he was -- how the white house counsel was trying to stop him, so it would be incredibly helpful and fruitful for the investigators. >> you know, barbara mccray, the mueller parallel is interesting, and i remember in the second volume he was talking about there were witness tamperi...

Volume makes abundantly clear that russian president vladimir putin and his acolytes and the trump campaign had a shared mission, the obstruction section proves six acts of criminal obstruction of justice. the headline in every paper was totally and completely exxon rated. are you sort of tapped out in terms of your well of confidence that the facts will prevail or do you have hope there will be accountability? >> i doubt. i dont, but i -- i do wonder about accountability. this is going to thing...

Which looks bad. and republicans in washington and other honest intellectual conservatives says that looks bad, but it does look bad. and they took that risk because complying and turning over other records and stuff like this, would have been far worse. it would have been a full self-impeachment self-dunk, end zone, safety whatever analogy you want to use. the little bit thats come out is bad and the report is exhaustive. and thats before you can get to the obstruction section, which like the m...

Adam schiff not only say theyve found one but theyve laid out the evidence from the call notes to the attempt by giuliani and sondland to ghost write a foreign governments investigation of the bidens. thats in there in a side by side. i can see more than i could yesterday why this white house took the giant gamble and risk of defying everything, which looks bad and plenty of other conservatives say that looks bad but. it does and they took that risk because turning over these and other records w...

With. notice, they were very careful the last few sections of summary. the president categorical refusal to comply, refusal to submit documents, refusal to allow top aides to testify. theyre making a case for at least one article of obstruction of congress. the big question going into the house judiciary committee hearings tomorrow, jake, whether they pull in material from the mueller report. you remember, volume two of the mueller report entirely based and acts of obstruction of justice. >> and...

Obstruction section, and not totally wonderful in the relationships with russia and the campaign while theres no conspiracy, there certainly is collusion in that report by any definition of that word. so i think what he does, he starts the education. and as nadler says you really do need public support to impeach. nixon, when he was impeached, it wasnt until after the committee had completed all of its proceedings that the so-called smoking gun page came out and the last 11 republicans finally s...

Report. its an interesting situation because when he begins his testimony, he is starting with the obstruction section then they go to what happened with the russians intervening. i wish that was switched because when youre trying to tell a story, you want to have the ark of the story and the first part is the russian investigation. we obviously need know about how they interfered in the election. how the trump campaign had contacts. how they knew the russians were trying to be helpful and how t...