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Direct frord the president of the united states to ask the attorney general to redirect the investigation. its one of the most powerful examples of what mueller called obstructive conduct in the report but, remember, mueller never accused trump of obstruction of justice. he has an opportunity to tease this out, as steph said in public television. here is one of trumps loyal disciples. is he going to be feisty absolutely hes got fbi 302s with his previous interviews and testimony. >> whats a 302....

Comeys rationale as i just laid out there. this is their response. even when these employees believe that their most strongly held personal convictions might be served by an unauthorized disclosure, the fbi depends on them not to disclose sensitive information. it says were current or fbi employees to follow the former directors example in disclose sensitive information in service of their own strongly held personal convictions, the fbi would be unable to dispatch its law enforcement duties prop...

This is their response. even when these employees believe that their most strongly-held personal convictions might be served by an unauthorized disclosure, the fbi depends on them not to disclose personal information. former director comey failed to live up to his responsibility. were current or former fbi employees to follow the former directors example and disclose sensitive information in service of their own strongly-held personal convictions, the fbi would be unable to dispatch its law enfo...

In the mueller report, it is theoretically possible that a prosecutor could look at that and determine there was a prosecutable case. >> is there a statute of limitations on those possible crimes? >> so, i think that there is and it would be something that the u.s. attorney, the conduct, the obstructive conduct took place in d.c. so a u.s. attorney here in the district of columbia, which is part of the justice department, the u.s. attorney reports to the attorney general so you would have to hav...

Go away and be frog walked into jail is really fantasy. even if charges could have been brought. theres a real -- and lets say he actually was tried and he was even convicted, i mean i think something would be litigated, it would take a really long time. lets say we got all the way to that point and that happened, i think a future president would pardon him. one of the historical reasons of pardon authority is to be able to heal the country. we saw that in the nixon example where president ford ...

Careers and their reputations and when the president of the united states goes at you on twitter and its an out of body experience as i described it. its unnerving. if you are concerned about your reputation or long-term career, you are going to be, i think, more likely to be hesitant to do things that will attract that ire. >> do you believe the actions of this type or indeed the specific allegations of obstructive conduct described in the mueller report have materially affected the behavior of...

Twitter and its an out of body experience as i described it. its unnerving. if you are concerned about your reputation or long-term career, you are going to be, i think, more likely to be hesitant to do things that will attract that ire. >> do you believe the actions of this type or indeed the specific allegations of obstructive conduct described in the mueller report have materially affected the behavior of the justice department or the fbi? do you know of investigations being curtailed or dela...

Opinion is a different endeavor than marshalling evidence with the goal of criminal prosecution. i want to ask you where you see the intersection of john dean in the watergate era. i hear this in my interactions outside of work. is this watergate? i say its so much worse than watergate, unindicted co-conspirator, robert mueller said if i could say he committed crimes i would. ten incidents of obstructive conduct. all the evidence, chris christie and cory lewandowski dont have a leg to stand on i...

Attorney general bill barr that is taking it from there. its the attorney general who is the one that has determined that theres no obstruction. the presidents legal team has picked up on that. jay sekulow, sent out the statement and he said "the attorney general conclusively determined there was no obstruction. from barr, theres no actions in our judgment that constitute obstructive conduct." so i asked sarah sanders on the north lawn, she took about a dozen or so questions, why the american pu...

Obstructive conduct by president trump and those around him. congress wants to know why did you make that decision and is it true for that legal opinion that says you cant indict a sitting president, donald trump would have and could have been charged with obstruction of justice. >> talk to us really briefly, ken, because you know the players in this. most of the american people do not. know the players involved very closely with robert mueller in this investigation. how wide or how small is the...