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General, period. >> reporter: barr says he couldnt legally release the full report at first, classified and grand jury information needed to be redacted. instead, he wrote a four-page letter to congress about muellers conclusions. >> and the conclusions were there was no collusion. and that he didnt make a decision on obstruction but he lays out all the facts in the report and i say that he does not exonerate trump. >> but critics say barr essentially did exonerate the president. he said mueller...

>> he had a great deal. he adopted a plan by a guy who became his employee named david who wrote the unsightly titled book, "a citizens guide to beating donald trump." and on november 112016, david did a postmortem on the hillary clintons failure to win and he said the two big mistakes that the hillary clinton campaign made or failing to target cities like milwaukee and failing to drive up the numbers of the african american vote. and so mark zuckerberg is $330 million he is going to spend to de...

Absolutely right. in the mueller investigation, one of the things that bob mueller analyzed was, did don junior and paul manafort and others know when they were meeting with that russian delegation secretly to get dirt on hillary clinton that they were breaking the law? because he felt he would need to prove their effective guilty knowledge. you know, theres -- there is some similarity here in that the statute, at least one of the statutes, requires that that obstruction of an official proceedin...

Overturn the results of the 2020 election. in our memo, mcquade argued that it leads to federal criminal statutes may have been violated in this episode alone. conspiracy to defraud the united states and obstruction of an official proceeding. now, as you may be thinking right now as you listen to this. as we found out last night, those are the same arguments, almost verbatim, the lawyers of the january six committee just made in their latest court filing in california. they say they have a good ...

Guy reffitt guilty of five charges. the most significant include obstruction of congress and obstruction of justice. those carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. hes expected to be sentenced on june 8th. again, this is a huge win for the justice department because this was the first test where they had to prove that the actions of someone in the crowd tied directly to the riot and the attack on the capital. there were moments of seering capitol. it was clear the capitol police officers ...

In this filing tonight. conspiracy to defraud the united states, and obstruction of an official proceeding. barbara great to have you with us. thanks for joining us. and as a person who kind of, you know, using this word here, predicted that these might be the statutes that trump violates, whats your reaction to this tonight and how significant is it? >> i think it is a significant filing because it is the first time the committee had said outloud what the crimes may have been and pulled togethe...

Riot. the first concerns guy reffet from texas. the first suspected rider to face a federal trial. he was found guilty of all five counts against him, including obstruction of an official proceeding, thats because he led an angry mob that was trying to disrupt the certification of the election. he was also convicted of threatening his own teenage children if they turned him in. his son, ultimately did contact the fbi. and he testified against him. verdict came hours after the early morning arres...

We dont need to be provocative but these are palatable risk informed options. this is not nearly as provocative as a no-fly zone which i could see that being a difficulty and why we might want to not get there. if we get these capabilities to the ukrainians they can achieve it on their own and we could avoid an expanding confrontation with the west. >> colonel vindman, i would love to have you back again soon. i have about 100 more questions to follow up, but we have some breaking news we need t...

Something more organized among at least potentially some defendants? >> weve got important lead charges in these newer cases. the oath keepers case, of course, is where doj for the first time has charged seditious conspiracy and that charge is different because it requires proof of an intent to use violence or some sort of a violent component, but more frequently, doj is using a charge that involves obstruction of an official proceeding or conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and were s...

It much better than i am, but you are capturing the humanity of these refugees. you are taking them away from being and obstruction, because when people hear 1 million and a half veggies, or 2 million refugees, its hard to understand that each one of these are individual lives lived. >> yes, thank you. thats exactly what we are trying to do with the series. >> i want to ask you about some of the lighter moments. there arent light moments in refugee sites. but one of the things we did, it was an ...