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For him, whether it was over golf dues that bob mueller had a dispute with the golf club over or it was over some -- the fact that the mueller firm worked with jared kushner, even though mueller didnt. so this is another effort to present pretext to conceal the real reason for getting rid of mueller. that does go to the intent in an obstruction case. and the fact that the president wanted to get rid of jeff sessions because jeff sessions recused himself and why did that bother the president beca...

>> apparently don mcgahn took it seriously and was willing to resign rather than carry it out. i wouldnt describe this as wallpaper based on what the "new york times" the "the washington post" and others have reported. what leaps out at me about this disclosure, this new report, is how much in common it has with the comey situation. with the firing of comey what the president had at his disposal were memos from rod rosenstein and from jeff sessions that provided a pretext, another explanation to...

The president had at his disposal were memos from rod rosenstein and from jeff sessions that provided a pretext, another explanation to give to the public for why comey was being fired. that is, he treated hillary clinton unfairly. now that is obviously not very plausible and the one who made it clear that was not the real motivation was the president himself. but similarly here with the attempt to fire bob mueller, you had the explanations brought up for him, whether it was over golf dues that ...

Regarding robert mule sper potential conflicts in representing jared kushner, the issues of the trump golf property and so on and so forth. it is his job to go talk with the boss, give him the best legal advice. and it appears to the extent these reports are true, if he did give that advice, the president followed it. so i dont know what the big deal is. >> why create a pretext if truth is on on your side? it hardly seems a basis to fire robert mueller because he once misplaced your 9 iron at th...

Some sort of corrupt intent on the part of trump. and what makes this story about don mcgahn so important is that the white house counsel, the presidents own lawyer, thought that the presidents reasons for wanting to fire robert mueller were such a pretext, were so false, were so outrageously wrong that he threatened to resign over them. and so the fact that the president came up with what his own lawyer thought was a fake explanation for why he was wanting to fire the special counsel, that is y...

>> the supposed conflicts of interest are pcrazy. they dont pass the smell test. second, i am hard put to believe that donald trump on his own sitting at his desk concocted or constructed this list of potential conflict. somebody is giving him in quote advice and third, youre right, that my colleagues in the congress may use this in very clever and coming way as a pretext for continuing their all out assault on mueller, his team, and the fbi. they have put law enforcement in their sights in a wa...

Carried out but if this reporting is true, that the president die rerected the whit house counsel to do this and efforts were stymied, does he have obstruction of justice or form of potential legal lie liability in given the order even though it wasnt carried out? >> i dont know relative to other factors how it is obstruction. id have to say one thing the reason the president gave. the first one is his belief mueller may be prejudice against him because he resigned from a country club after an i...

Advice. and, third, youre right, that my colleagues in the congress may use this in very clever and cunning ways as a pretext for continuing their all-out assault on mueller, his team and the fbi. they have put law enforcement in their sights in a way that i think is utterly and totally shameful and disgraceful. think of the party that was most favorable to law enforcement and law and order and the war on crime now is attacking relentlessly and consistently the premiere law enforcement agency of...

Foreign a intelligence surveillance act not to protect this country from foreign threats like terror, which is its purpose, but to spy on rival campaigns, the trump campaign in particular, and to create a pretext for the current independent counsel investigation, one that has mesmerized our class and paralyzed our government, even today the president was responding to questions on it.nd watch. >> one more quick one. >> i only repeat for the purposes of making sure you understand. >> one more qui...

Comey to end the investigation and firing hip when he refused to comply. the attorney general is elbow deep in the firing of comey, one of the officials asked to leave the oval office before the president asked comey to let the flynn matter go. comey testified he employered sessions to keep the president from communicating with him directly. later after comey testified twice on capitol hill, the attorney general wanted one negative article a day in the news media about mr. comey according to "th...