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Requisite intent. of those things, intent is usually the most difficult to prove. you might have bare bones elements. but you might not have a prosecutable case. dont know yet, rachel. dont know. but its in really good hands. >> well, to that point, i mean, tonight -- we woke up this morning to "the washington post" publishing what it believed was an omnibus list of contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials or agents, 30 different contacts. by this afternoon we have news from "th...

Usually the most difficult to prove. you might have bare bones elements. but you might not have a prosecutable case. dont know yet, rachel. dont know. but its in really good hands. >> well, to that point, i mean, tonight -- we woke up this morning to "the washington post" publishing a list of what it believed was the omnibus list of contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials or agents, 30 different contacts. by this afternoon we had news from "the atlantic" magazine of further und...

Firing of james comey was the obstruction of justice? >> its a possibility. theres a whole bunch of other things we need to know. i presume bob mueller knows them or will find them out. from where i stand, he might have an obstruction case. but let me be clear about something. the mere fact that you have the elements of a crime, that youve met the elements of a statute, doesnt necessarily mean that you have a prosecutable case. federal prosecutors are trained that you also have to have a reasona...

>> well, its a possibility. theres a whole bunch of other things we need to know. i presume bob mueller knows them or will find them out. from where i stand, he might have an obstruction case. but let me be clear about something. the mere fact that you have the elements of a crime, that youve met the elements of a statute, doesnt necessarily mean that you have a prosecutable case. federal prosecutors are trained that you also have to have a reasonable probability of conviction. so there are time...

Summarized the prosecution for hillary and then announced that he wouldnt ask for any charges. and what was he doing with the authority to do that anyway, handed over by loretta lynch, who sat on the plane with the bill clinton. >> but where is the criminality in that? what would be a potential crime? its in his discretion, whether or not he thought there was a prosecutable case that could be won, and he said no. wheres the crime? >> this -- im not going to asse assert obstruction of justice, bu...

Election meddling by russia, did nothing about it, why? the fact that the president now seems to be acknowledging that there was some sort of russian interference, did that change anything when it comes into the investigation into collusion? >> well, christi, i think it does. we now have the first element of what someone, a special council or prosecutor could prove was unlawful interference. we now have evidence and president trump agrees that they did have information that they tried to influen...

Yet. so when bruce castor, the d.a. in 2005 decided not to go forward, he was evaluating the evidence we have now, minus bill cosbys admissions. the statements he made in his deposition. when that was unsealed in 2015, thats what caused the prosecution to take a look again. a different prosecutor and say, whoa, maybe we have a prosecutable case. obviously, se of those 12 jurors, we dont know the vote. some of those jurors agreed. >> why couldnt those jurors come up with a verdict? why are we in ...

Happens, what is that severalally up to? do any investigators really have a say in this. >> if they decide theres a prosecutable case, it still wouldnt really be his decision, because the justice department has long held that sitting president may not be indicted and prosecuted. the constitution implicitly prevents that. theres no court ruling that says that, but the justice department in memos going back to the 70s has decided that. bob mueller, but the regulations that set up the special couns...

Senator, but i conveyed to apply the same principles and reasoning to it. i just dont know where it will end up so i cannot commit sitting here. >> but you would agree that as the fbi director, you would need to go beyond simply saying, there is no prosecutable case or there is a prosecutable case. >> potentially. >> when i was a u.s. attorney many years ago, there was actually a rule and the department of justice that there could be no report on any grand jury manner or any investigation withou...

Information. so thats one of the reasons it doesnt change their bottom line view of whether there should be a prosecutable case. it just didnt add to the number of documents on the server that contained classified information. >> pete williams, thank you for that update. kellyanne conway, the campaign manager for donald trump. look, when sh story broke the friday, october 28th, donald trump reacted saying this is bigger than watergate when it was announced there were newly discovered e-mails the...