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Werent allowed to do the things that they were doing. and we think there is overwhelming evidence of that. obviously, we have to see what the committee produces in the coming weeks. but we think there is already a great deal of facts. the other pieces is obstruction of the government function, which goes to that same idea. >> and now, it seems almost even more straightforward. i mean, clearly -- if nothing else, what everyone was doing that day was attempting to obstruct the government function....

So colson laid this all out in front of ehrlichman, and ehrlichman said you absolutely cannot mention clemency to the president. >> offering clemency to one of the burglars so he wouldnt talk, that would be obstruction. >> but colson goes to the president. the president promised colson executive clemency, in other words, a pardon for hunt with the understanding that colson would tell hunt and hunt would stay quiet. >> seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the b...

Sponsors. this innovation, for so long as it exists, i think its gonna be a major obstruction to the gun secularization that will save lives. >> yeah, im glad you brought that up. obviously, as you just had calls to ban the nra, dismember the nra, the radical gun group that is clearly huddled by all the scandal and the internal conflicts and all of the issues that weve been hearing about this organization struggling with. do you believe that this group faces an existential crisis because on one ...

Is crime fraud to these discussions. these have nothing to do with the job of the chief of staff to help in an insurrection. i think that it should have been applied. his indictment should have been seen as valid as much as the boroughs. as for scavino, i cannot explain why he is different than navarros or bannons. navarro was in the white house, bannon was not. but once you get inside the white house and say that someone can be subpoenaed and indicted for obstruction, well then, why not scavino...

Power, with incremental steps to get on top of the crises, rather than to look like hes throwing his hands up in the air. >> at the same time doesnt he run the risk of overusing executive power? >> always, and presidents have to be cautious and that is a critique but on issues like inflation, when he will not make progress at this point on capitol hill because of republican obstruction and as ron said the manchin/sinema problem, thats the one tool he has at his disposal and easing economic conce...

Weapons in the way that you have to be 21 years old to do any number of other things in our society that are far less deadly than owning a firearm, and, of course, we do need to ban assault weapons which were still whipping votes to do, but this is something that is a uniquely american problem, and i just reject the idea that any of my republican colleagues have any good faith basis whatsoever to continue their obstruction and their opposition to something that is broadly supported by the americ...

Never got a vote. now, here we are, after buffalo, after youve all day, after tulsa. and you have members of congress, basically open hoping that they are gonna be able to get their act together and do something, because of republican obstruction, the way that that has been over the next two or three decades. we will see what comes of it. >> then, what about executive action, does this white house have a game plan? we know the president is unhappy with his sinking poll numbers, hes dealing with ...

The thing the probably has the best chance. for him, to sort of step into this process, it can really throw the whole thing off the rails, because it all becomes about president biden and partisanship. right, now the goal, and theyre not doing this forever, the senate comes back on june 6th, and chris, murphy senator murphy has said that he is not gonna give republicans all day and all night to work on this. if he gets the sense that theyre not, serious then they will sort of move ahead on their...

You like m&ms? there we go. then you got it. you got it. this is the trump era, whatever you can grab. >> dad! oh my god. >> would you guys like a baby constitution? >> what is? that >> come here. its your own constitution, okay? its got the first amendment. >> in a sobering milestone, house democrats turned weeks of testimony, evidence, and speeches into actual articles of impeachment against the president. >> the house judiciary committee decide to charge to commit -- a president with abuse of...

♪ reporter: weve got a big story coming out of washington this morning. out of washington this morning. today is the public -- the mueller report. >> after 23 months of secrecy, this morning answers for the american public. when attorney general william barr released a redacted version of the nearly 400-page mueller report. >> was there a conspiracy in the election between russians and americans trying to help donald trump? was there obstruction or other crimes arising out of that investigatio...