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Thought was ultimately obstructive but couldnt find or 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 thi...

Thats how it sort of comes back to cloak the communications. so i mean, this was sounds to me like he didnt like the answer he was getting because he didnt like the fact that flynn was cooperating. thats what he was -- thats what dowd or whoever it was who was communicating was getting angry at. right? it was the fact that flynn was actually cooperating. and to get angry at a witness for cooperating is trying to dissuade them from cooperating. that is an obstructive act in my mind. now, its very...

Defense agreement, which happens automatically when someone is cooperating which by this point they well knew that flynn was cooperating, once the joint defense agreement goes away, theres no basis for him to be sharing for flynns lawyer to be sharing information anymore with trumps lawyer. i mean, its not only that he cant.an he shouldnt be, right? because now we have attorney/client privilege be basically in effect again. thats how it sort of comes back to cloak the communications. so i mean, ...

Remember this is what got flynn in hot water in the first place, talking about sanctions with the then russian ambassador and lying about it to the vice president and to the american people. so we could still learn more about this case going forward. >> so will the transcripts be something if we hear the voice mail. sarah murray, thank you very much. lets analyze. i have ashar rengoppa and frank bruni is a "new york times" opinion columnist and a cnn contributor. so welcome to both you. asha, ...

It really, i think, cuts against the presidents -- you know, the sort of argument that this is something other than political, right? it sort of made this into a much more political event than i think it should have been. so it is really hard for me to understand from the legal vantage point why he would walk into that room even for a minute. >> rich, do you see it as a problem? >> no, not if the -- if it is true that he was just there at the beginning and didnt actually participate in the brief...

Minute. >> rich, do you see it as a problem? >> no, not if the -- if it is true that he was just there at the beginning and didnt actually participate in the briefing and just emphasized that the president does have an interest in transparency. i dont see what the problem is with the president having an interest in transparency. i mean there are a lot of questions about this investigation and how it began, that congress has a right to look into. i think it is ridiculous as we heard from the cong...

Justice department alum of the justice development if he were to do something like that and some would reveal it as an obstructive act, that he would reveal something that the investigators dont want revealed. so certainly he has a lot of power in this respect. but he himself, much like rod rosenstein does seem to be walking a line here and pushing the justice department, but only pushing them so much. >> i do want to ask you about that, because everybody says that rosenstein is between a rock a...

Rosenstein, its another nail in his coffin. i think that will cross a red line. so, out of self-preservation, i doubt it. >> norm, norm -- >> that is not an obstructive act. thats ridiculous. >> all right, sol, go ahead. >> -- an obstructive act, too. >> its not -- look, it doesnt come close to obstruction of justice. i dont think he should fire rod rosenstein. it doesnt come close to obstruction of justice to fire somebody that you have the right to fire. one thing theyre not really thinking of...

Obstructive act, anderson! this is how president trump got in this mess. by firing comey. >> oh, please. >> now if he does it with rosenstein, its another nail in his coffin. i think that will cross a red line. so, out of self-preservation, i doubt it. >> norm, norm -- >> that is not an obstructive act. thats ridiculous. >> all right, sol, go ahead. >> -- an obstructive act, too. >> its not -- look, it doesnt come close to obstruction of justice. i dont think he should fire rod rosenstein. it do...

Done nothing wrong, but that the mueller team doesnt seem convinced yet that there was not collusion there. ambassador, the prospect of the president taking action against the department of justice, get involved to use the presidents own words on twitter today. he could, in theory, replace rod rosenstein with someone who then gives, i mean, republican allies on the hill everything they want to know about muellers case, which i guess would fly in the face of the department of justice tradition. c...