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Lose sight of is none of this is any indication for donald trump. it doesnt change anything about what comey was writing about in those memos which was donald trump demanding loyalty of him and trying to get him to shut down the investigation. those are still obstructive act. todays finding on comey has nothing to do with clearing trump. >> laura: how did he turn the ig-report slamming comey and turn it into trump is not vindicated? >> i am sad to say after i read the ig-report. trump didnt obst...

Of obstruction, which i wanted to just talk about for a moment. obstructive act, nexus between an act and official proceeding and intent was associated with the actions of this president. the american people have never heard that. and i will close by simply saying on this question you asked, for those of us who have seen director mueller before this committee and a number years as fbi director, he has always been stoic and a former marine. just right to the point. certainly has enormous talent o...

Of obstruction, which i wanted to just engineer for a moment, on obstructive act, the nexus of an act and official proceeding and corrupt intent was associated with the actions of this president. the american people have never heard that. and i will close by simply saying on this question that you asked, for those of us who have seen director mueller before this committee on a number of years as fbi director, he has always been stoic and a former marine, just right to the point. he certainly has...

You also had questions of nancy pelosi. give us a feel for how things are on the hill. are we moving away from impeachment? is nadler still going to be pushing impeachment? is that effectively finished? was that effectively finished yesterday by robert muellers testimony? >> joe, i think that its stalled, i would say. there are some signs inside the caucus that there is optimism that nancy pelosi will change her mind. pelosi herself, i talked to her yesterday. i asked her have you changed your m...

Mueller, was it part of his responsibilities to see that through in one way or the other whether or not he could bring obstruction of justice and should he have done so to this president? >> there is still some confusion, quite frankly, as to why the special counsel stopped short of acknowledging once he laid out in my view and the view of many people as he pretty much confirmed yesterday, substantial evidence that all of the elements of obstruction of justice had been met, one an obstructive ac...

The end this is about democrats. i was perusing this new media platform called the twitter yesterday. >> the twitter, yes. >> i came upon this account by someone called@joe nbc. he said i was interested at one point he tweeted jesus, forgive me for ever being a republican. the other one i liked. this is the thing i want to engage you on, this piece written by someone in the national review that goes -- speaks directly to this issue. the quote that you tweeted out, which i think is -- the headlin...

One, committed an obstructive act, two, connected to an official proceeding, three, did so with corrupt intent. those are the elements of obstruction of justice. >> is he on to something there? >> well, he is. he was reciting you know from muellers own report which gave us about ten instances of varying degrees of possible charges of obstruction of justice. some were stronger. there are different elements as hakeem jeffries just went through and he picked one that was like three for three, right...

Going all the way back to the 60s when you served in vietnam. because i have a seat on the intelligence committee ill have questions later and because of our limited time i will ask to enter this letter into >> without objection. >> i yield to my colleague from california, mr. liu. >> thank you, director mueller, for your long history of service to our country, including your service as a marine, where you earned a bronze star. id like to turn to the elements of obstruction of justice as applied...

President knew that he should not have directed don mcgahn to fire the special counsel, correct? >> and where do you have that quote? >> page 90, volume two. theres evidence that the president knew he should not have made those calls to mcgahn, closed quote. >> i see that, yes. thats accurate. >> the investigation also found substantial evidence that president trump repeatedly urgeled mcgahn to dispute that he was having the special counsel terminated, correct? >> correct. >> the investigation f...

Does that mean you have to investigate all of his conduct to ascertain true motive? >> no. >> and when you talk about the presidents pattern of conduct that include the ten possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, is that correct? when you talk about the presidents pattern of conduct, that would include the ten possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, correct? >> i direct you to the report for how that is characterized. >> thank you. let me go to the screen again. for each ...