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Issues and spats can be distractions from what tim scott or myself or others should actually be dwebating. how do we grow an economy, lift people up, revive self-confidence and pride in the next generation of americans. thats what we should be focused on. >> im going to move on. these criticisms have not come from the media, they have come from african-americans in the republican party, senator tim scott, congressman john james. lets move on now to federal prosecutors added new obstruction of ju...

Even if it might cause a little bit of a delay. he wants to have the strongest -- a number of things. first of all, a town involving the actual document that trump was waving around, trump claimed it was a newspaper, it was his bravado, it wasnt really classified document. now they have that document, theyre charging that document, and then hes included this obstruction of conspiracy, involving the destruction of evidence. now they have that document, theyre charging that document, and then hes ...

We want to start tonights show by looking back for a moment. back to july 27th 1974, which was an inflection point in our countrys history. it was on that day the house judiciary committee recommended that americas 37th president, richard nixon, be impeached and removed from office. six republicans joined 21 democrats in sending that first article of impeachment against the president, which accused him of obstructing justice to the full house. and now, 49 years later, to the day, another former ...

Open investigation, they received a graph -- a draft grand jury subpoena and then after that, once they found out they were being investigated took quite elaborate efforts to hide evidence and suppress it. that, in a functioning society, that conduct could not happen. and so shame on mr. ramaswamy for attack us as a nation in the way that he did right there. it is really shameful. >> i keep getting this question from people of all walks of life. like how do you reconcile the fact that david petr...

The biggest problem with, but i do think some of these issues can be distractions from what governor desantis or tim scott or myself should be debating. how do we grow an economy? how do we lift all people up and revive self-confidence and pride in the next generation of americans? thats what i think we need to be focused on. >> im going to move on here. i think it is worth underscoring that these criticisms have not come that were quoting here have not come from the media. they have come from a...

You, of course, played a significant, important role in the first impeachment trial for trump. as you look to the details here, and as were learning more, do you feel this case of obstruction is even more clear than the mueller case? how do you compare them? >> you, know theyre both strong in different ways. and the mueller investigation, it was trump trying to fire people like comey, or even threatening to fire mueller to it struck the investigation. it was coaching witnesses to currys false st...

Specific in a way that goes beyond the obstruction in the mueller report. here, i think the case is much simpler. its much easier for a jury to comprehend. you know, hiding boxes, the leading security footage shortlys trying to. you dont need a complex explanation for, it its such powerful evidence of the presidents consciousness of his guilt. >> some of it is not even believable if it wasnt a movie. reading some of the specifics. youve spent so much time working on intelligence issues, especial...

Indictment, to say i have more to tell you. what does that say to you? >> well, i think, number one, the trump folks ought to be concerned about this cooperating witness. but i think as a broader point, abby, this indictment has not been stress tested for lack of a better way to put it. and we havent really seen what the credibility of some of the these witnesses are. a lot of the obstruction at least as a document in the indictment, hing on the testimony of employee number four and that is what...

The original indictment charged that trump told his valet to move boxes of classified papers as a way of keeping them from federal investigators. now the property manager carlos deolivera also has been charged with going to the audio closet telling the boss wants the computer server deleted. after a 24 minute call with trump. >> does that stop your campaign for president, if youre sentenced? >> not at all. theres nothing in the constitution to say that it could and not at all, and even the radic...

A ton of additional details. two of the charges center on obstruction, which we can see in a particularly jarring passage that says that trump and the newly indicted carlos de oliveira request that another trump employee delete security camera footage at the mar-a-lago club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury. you cant spell it out much more quickly than that. why? according to this brand-new defendant, carlos de oliveira who said to be rain tomorrow, its because, ...