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Breadth and specificity to the instances of obstruction. i keyed in that language. being attorney but also for the lay person not an attorney, to the voter it seems when you at the breadth and specificity of these actions, there was intentionality around moving these documents, making sure some people saw them and some people didnt. >> including his own lawyers. >> including his own lawyer. you can talk about plausible deniability. >> which you dont even have. >> which you dont even have. to me ...

>> i envision at least two and now theres talk of a third, one involving, you know, taking it away without authority. one involving obstruction, and one potentially involving showing it to others and espionage. but to me its the strongest case and the strongest aspect of the strongest case. and what bill barr sees is exactly this obstruction right after the point of having received the subpoena. and whether smith, by the way, phrases it in terms of three or four different acts and possibly consp...

And again how many people he excluded but who he did include in that circle, i mean theres real peril for him in here. >> again, well discard bill barrs uncertainty he faces grave criminal exposure and donald trumps defense you can do whatever with classified materials. take me down the center path, harry litman. what we have is a target of an investigation, right, who is describing the conduct of something within his authority. the criminal code is the criminal code. its clearly not, but tell m...

Both parties want an activist judiciary in what has become a race to the bottom. since the bork nomination in the 80s, every move has been a tit for tat, and each party has rationalized its escalation in the judicial wars by claiming the other side did it first. heres a stunning fact. the last time a republican-controlled united states senate confirmed a democratic presidents supreme court nominee -- grover cleveland administration nearly 130 years ago. in 2013, pushed by the obstruction of obam...

Would jack smith need to know or need proof that donald trump himself directed it, had knowledge of it? what would he need to have? >> here were talking about evidence of obstruction or an investigation, and that could include concealing documents that are relevant to that investigation. so, again, you need to know trump has somehow got a hand in it. its not just people working on it for their own, moving boxes around, but he has somehow not necessarily said move these boxes on this day, but if ...

Conspired or coordinated with the russian government in these efforts." the second part of the investigation was whether or not there had been an obstruction of justice, whether trump had tried to interfere with the mueller investigation. [major] the special counsel said, "while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" there were more than 10 instances that the mueller prosecutors found of donald trump actively seeking as president to sh...

Never have done the right thing and to turn backed the documents. indeed, he was having a dress rehearsal to hide them. thats what guilty people do. >> yeah, thats what guilty people do. jill, i have one last one for you. i want to share another detail from the post report. according to their sources prosecutors have gathered evidence indicating that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were not only visible but in fact showed them to others. we are all ki...

New reporting about potential evidence of obstruction in the mar-a-lago documents investigation but what are the chances we see a more serious charge for donald trump, and later, ukraine is on the brink of launching its counter fashion against trump -- i will ask oksana markarova, what success looks like, and how they hope to achieve it. -- speaker kevin mccarthy. while the president was able to protect most of his priorities, including medicaid, student debt, relief and funding to fight the cli...

>> i kind of agree with you, jennifer. whereas, usually whoever the incumbent president is suffers from a deal that being made. mccarthy has been so public that he is becoming the face of whatever obstruction may happen in terms of reaching the steel. michael, jennifer, both please stick with us, i want to come back to you. coming up, i want to go to reproductive rights. expand far beyond when and if a woman decides to have a child. now, one lawmaker is rising up to ensure all americans women ha...

Is indicative of anything other than the timing is really suspicious. but, the justice department and the special counsel has been focusing on the movement of boxes because, at the heart of the inquiry is the question of obstruction. did trump hide documents and have a range to be moved out of the story from, but he knew his lawyers going to be surging because he wanted to illegally retain them. for the justice department has been trying to do by piecing together surveillance footage, the action...