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Threat to him. who were they a threat to? the people counting the votes. if prosecutors want to charge him with obstruction of an official proceeding or conspiracy against the united states and also another charge possibly on the table, incitement of a riot. thats hard to do because you have broad first amendment protections but now we see that he may have intended to incite imminent unlawful activity. >> how much does that matter that he said they are not a threat to me? hes saying they are a t...

You the committee is well aware that witness tampering is a federal offense. it is an offense in the district of columbia. its an fence in all of the states and very serious matter. someone is trying to interfere with the collection of the truth and the collection of facts. and the committee will not stand by and allow that to happen. and we will be acting in a very strong way to oppose any kind of witness tampering or other forms of obstruction of justice that we encounter. >> would that includ...

Thinking back to the numerous examples of the obstruction and similar witness tampering that happened during the special counsel investigation. and as many people note, that is a crime that prosecutors take very seriously, because it undermines the very nature of what it means to have a rule of law. if few people are allowed to obstruct justice, without there being any ramifications. and clearly, in this case, the former president has a history that will weigh into the various factors that merri...

Members of congress and it is hard to say that there is a defense to the incitement charge that cipollone, the white house counsel, advised hutchinson and most likely trump himself not do because it would violate all manner of laws including obstruction of the official proceeding and incitement. so im not sure what you do if you are trumps lawyer under those circumstances. deny it, i guess. >> hutchinson testified that the white house counsel pat cipollone was adamant that she help stop trump fr...

The attention cast on the agency. >> i want to talk a little about mind-set, and we heard throughout all of this is the fact that what was going on inside of donald trumps head, what, that you heard yesterday, indicates to you that that part of it, that part of the case, could be built? >> several things, and not just built as to obstruction, but as to violence. very important. he knows they are armed. he told them let them come through, theyre not going to hurt me. very important he wants to go...

Publicly asked for the transcript of these depositions. there is this back and forth between the committee and doj. the doj is sort of taking a backseat here. they will collect the evidence as it comes to them. i would agree with norm. there are now a plethora of potential criminal charges. talk about what crimes could be charged here. and yesterday was the first time i certainly saw that we saw a line between the seditious conspiracy with the oath keepers and proud boys and president trump. up ...

Ongoing federal criminal investigation that would clearly qualify as a proceeding because then if you reach out and try to influence a witness either change what theyre going to say or keep them from testifying, then that is clear obstruction, people get charged with that all the time in federal court. here i think the question is going to be how much of a proceeding are these witnesses or potential witnesses participating in? did they receive a subpoena to testify in front of the committee and ...

>> harry, a lot of people are saying this is mop stuff. this is also something that most americans can clearly understand. >> and you know who else can? the department of justice. they hate this tough. for some reason prosecutors, this drives them insane and theyre really sellous about it. and michael reported this person, it is the fact pattern is plainly stronger than many different case thats accomplished obstruction. stronger than, for example, what bill clinton was impeached for. this is re...

Apparently delivered by anthony ar ornato, that there were weapons in the crowd. the president at the very least was indifferent to that fact and wanted those people to be allowed into his rally and then to move towards the capitol. this is whats significant when it comes to evaluating the presidents intent. this is whats significant when it comes to what this committee is actually going after which is the obstruction of an official proceeding, the crime that liz cheney broached many months ago....

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