Page 575 - Obstruction News Today

Where former president donald trump spoke to a crowd of supporters at a rally on saturday and its important to note that this is his first presidential rally since the news of his federal indictment and learning of the federal charges against him in the classified documents case. and he spent a lot of time during that speech talking about these charges. he continued to repeat that he denied any wrongdoing. he also argued that others were not being prosecuted for doing the same thing that he did ...

Him on it, very damaging to his criminal case. >> absolutely. cnn had the tape exclusively and released it. what was your first reaction as a defense attorney, what was your reaction? >> you know, you could cross-examine witnesses and they all have motives. its hard to cross-examine your own clients voice on a tape and hes in a causal demeanor, hes laughing, joking, and you listen to his words, what hes telling these people, and then you listen to what he said on brett barier about the papers, t...

Be headed. you are not permitted to continue to investigate the charges that you have indicted after you have brought a indictment. you have to be investigating either additional charges, different charges, or perhaps more counts of retention of documents or additional defendants. both of those options are live here. i think there are a couple of intriguing possibilities. one is that there could have been some effort to obstruct justice as the indictment was being brought forward or after it was...

Reporting. it does sound like that would be the logical next step. it would flow out of this investigation, out of the continued investigation by this grand jury. it also sounds like this stage might be focusing on a different location on new jersey. theres also reporting that and then also again after of common sense, it may well be that special counsel is looking at filing additional charges, perhaps a naturalistic shun. which would be the natural locus, i think, for these charges, just as som...

Gary schlafly told bret baer there was obstruction. >> are you convincing looking back at there now this was an effort to protect president biden and his family? >> uh, i mean we were conducting investigation of hunter biden and we were trying to follow the normal process. we were trying to get to the bottom of it, and ultimately if it was going to lead to another individual, you know, we should follow that, to determine what is actually happening. but, you know there were definitely hindrances ...

PANCHTHAR, June 28: Vehicular movement has been completely obstructed again at Hewakhola of Panchthar along Mechi highway.

Everywhere, got their own people to look, didnt look in certain areas at bedminster. did it sound like the special counsel may be looking at obstruction at bedminster as well? >> thats something we dont have the reporting on at the moment and we get into the back and forth occurring between trumps legal team and prosecutors at that time. there was one person in particular who was raising questions and concerns about doing -- hiring an outside team to conduct a search at bedminster, a top adviser...

Greater to actual contests -- reasons why he wanted to retain and ultimately revealed certain documents, but it does fatally undermined the claims that he has made in the past, including at a fox town hall and other times, talking about the idea of hes these werent actually paperwork assigned are associated with the department of defense. these were newspapers or magazines clippings. that negates that very wholeheartedly. of course if you are the special counsel you are well aware of this audio ...

Can trying to piece together for themselves and potentially eventually for a jury exactly what was going on here. >> laura, from a former federal prosecutors perspective, how strong is the tape if trump is saying there was a bunch of newspapers i was waving. >> well, the transcript. now to hear the audio of this is very hard to sort of disassociate the idea of it being a document in front of him. his comments about, it wasnt a document, per se, his comments about not having it, and then hearing ...

Moving those boxes. hes not charged with the retention of the 31 documents that donald trump is accused of having knowingly after his presidency, but he is accused of obstruction and false statements trying to conceal those records from the justice department. those are hefty charges on their own, even decoupled from the retention counts. so this man will be coming into court today. we expect it to be a bit of a shorter proceeding in court so that he can enter that not guilty plea, but this is h...