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With robert mueller. first, just reminding people what the law is that he broke. this is a description of the law around obstruction, why its a crime to obstruct in any investigation. the attempt to remove this special counsel, that would be these efforts, these first two flash points where he tried to get his white house counsel to fire mueller, would qualify as an obstructive act, it would naturally obstruct the investigation and any grand jury proceedings that might flow from the inquiry. a f...

Of obstruction the special counsel laid out. there were 10 separate instances, trying to get jeff sessions to pull back the investigation, trying to fire robert mueller, trying to get the white house counsel to recant his testimony and change his testimony to make it lineup with what the president said. those are obstructive act, nothing stops congress from looking into that in the context of impeachment just like they did with bill clinton. >> i keep the 400 pages with me on my desk all the tim...

Justice, mcgahn trying to fire mueller, sessions trying to capitate the investigations and firing comey and saying to him, what facts did you find as to those issues when you were doing this investigation. have them say outloud, this is what we found. and then they can argue after the fact, ah-ha, you see, this is obstruction. >> how much of this are we going to see from him just reading the report. >> he may read the report or he may have it memorized at this point where he can say volume 2, se...

He intended to resign. priebus recalled that mcgahn said the president had asked him to do crazy bleep which rhymes with hit. whenever i say rhymes with, i end up saying the bad word. mcgahn did not tell him the specifics of the presidents request because mcgahn was trying to protect priebus from what he did not know. i think the headline under this section is donald trumps attempts to fire special counsel robert mueller. certainly what was investigated as an obstructive act was he intends to fi...

And said he resigned, telling them the president asked him to do crazy -- bleep. he thought mcgahn did not tell him the specifics of the presidents request because mcgahn was trying to protect reince priebus from what he did not know. consistent with what jonathan is saying but i think the headline under the section is donald trumps attempts to fire special counsel robert mueller what was investigated as an obstructive act was the attempts to fire robert mueller. >> yes, this was one of the more...

Their committee in the public. >> and theyre being stonewalled, not responding to testify at all. laura, the former u.s. attorney joyce vance also testified. i want to get your reaction to this exchange with sheila jackson lee where she reads in the mueller rart about the call trump made directing mcgahn to fire mueller. watch this. >> mcgahn recalled the president saying mueller has to go. and call me back. when you do it, mcgahn understood the president to be saying that the special counsel ha...

Ideal, but they are working aggressively behind the scenes to try to figure out how to get some of those key people before their committee in the public. >> and theyre being stonewalled, not responding to testify at all. laura, the former u.s. attorney joyce vance also testified. i want to get your reaction to this exchange with sheila jackson lee where she reads in the mueller rart about the call trump made directing mcgahn to fire mueller. watch this. >> mcgahn recalled the president saying mu...

Effort to go ahead and have the special counsel fired. theres a nexus to an investigation. at this point the president is aware that the investigation is ongoing. and there appears to be a corrupt motive as well curtailing the special counsels investigation. this entire series of conversations and conduct is deeply troubling. >> laura, all the elements to successfully charge obstruction and thats just one of the episodes mueller lays out in his report. >> shes right on all front seat and frankly...

Commit a crime were attorney client privilege conversations or just -- they couldnt -- they couldnt prove intent. the fact that you couldnt prove that he intended to obstructs justice doesnt mean its not an obstructive act. thats one of the things that mueller made a note of in the report when citing in particular thing. and then also finally the last -- i know im rambling a bit. they dangle a pardon. and again, the presidents pardon power is absolute. but i dont think the framers when granting ...

Trace the presidents intent to it partly because many of the communications between the president and dowd that could have established the presidents intent that he intended to commit a crime, attorney/client conversations, right? or they couldnt -- neal said they couldnt prove intent. the fact that you couldnt -- the fact that you couldnt prove that he intended to obstruct justice doesnt mean its not an obstructive act. thats one of the things that mueller made a note of in the report, you know...