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Have to answer their questions, this is what the first half of the day generally looked like. >> are you refusing to answer, mr. lewandowski? >> no, congressman as ive explained in a letter from the white house dated september 16, 2019, to my attorney -- >> that letter -- >> mr. lewandowskis conversations with the president and senior advisers to the president are protected from disclosure >> stop the clock again for this obstructive behavior >> the white house has directed not to disclose any d...

Senate. >> the white house is directed i not disclose the substance of any discussions -- >> the answer is youre not answering the question. >> ive been asked by the white house to -- congressman, id be happy to answer your question or you can just have a conversation by yourself. >> im going to continue the reason is -- >> dont ask me a question if you dont want to hear my house. >> this is a house judiciary, not a house party. >> why did it take you so long, and you never even delivered it? >>...

I not disclose any discussions with the president congressman, i would be happy to answer your question or you can have a conversation by yourself. if you would like to ask a question dont ask a question if you dont want to hear my answer >> this is a house judiciary, not a house party. >> why did it take so long, and you never delivered it. >> i never delivered the message. >> you chickened out. >> i went on vacation. >> in a letter from the white house, september 16th, 2019. >> mr. lewandowski...

Provides a mechanism through which congress is a separate branch of government as opposed to -- is supposed to hold a president or branch officials accountable. and vol one which covers national security issues lays out information the campaign was willing to receive foreign assistance and the presidents statements since then indicate he still is. and volume two lays out ten different -- up to ten different potential acts of obstructive behavior. if this doesnt meet the standard, what is in this...

That he investigated ten instances which were obstructive behavior. of those ten, six he found to be compelling and three he found to have substantial evidence of obstruction. so all mueller needs to do from the democrat standpoint is say in plain language what his report says in legalese and let the american people reach their own conclusions. he doesnt have to -- to johns point, he doesnt have to offer his opinion. he can just say we investigated the question of whether or not the president tr...

Said she would not. she said she would report it to the fbi. if i thought it was legitimate enough to have our law enforcement dedicate their time to it. additionally hicks said she was very surprised to learn there were over 100 contacts between the trump campaign and people connect ted to the russian government but hicks was repeatedly blocked from discussing the presidents obstructive behavior. she also did not address michael flynns resignation, jeff sessions recusal, james comeys firing or ...

The discussion in your report that had to do with obstruction, would you consider those factors that point to the president doing obstruction? even if he reads those portions, thats a heck of a lot of obstructive behavior. >> so what other questions do you think mueller needs to answer that arent necessarily in his report? >> i like to have him respond more to his thinking about why he, you know, to reiterate again what his thinking was about the fairness issue, about the president not having a ...

About the possible obstruction into michael flynns cooperation with the special counsel, cnns senior justice correspondent evan perez joins me now. this is quite remarkable. it flit in a broader pattern of flynn saying he got a message from the president, hey, wouldnt be so great if you cooperate, not unlike other messages we have heard from other witnesses or even public comments the president has made. how significant is this flynn evidence? >> this flynn evidence, which was already baked into...

Similarly with threats to potentially use inherent contempt power to jail people. i think politically the visual of that is probably not politically good. i think part of the difficulty is that what the white house counsel office is now arguing is that the president cannot be overseen on certain things that are his executive authority, that congress literally does not have the authority to conduct oversight of his exercise of executive power. and this is where the real crux of what they actually...

Counsel office is now arguing is that the president cannot be overseen on certain things that are his executive authority, that congress literally does not have the authority to conduct oversight of his exercise of executive power. and this is where the real crux of what they actually are going to end up arguing about, when they get down to the facts of the presidents obstructive behavior, it is whether or not he can actually abuse that executive authority and theyre just not getting to that iss...