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Alex, the 2014 Ferguson Protester fresh in peoples minds here. Ferguson just a suburb of st. Louis. That is why we have seen such a strong show of force from police so early they are determined not to let things get out of hand like they did in ferguson. Point well taken on that, blake. The mayor, was he at home at the time the protesters gathered around the home and started Throwing Rocks and bottles . Reporter we do not believe she was. We held a Press Conference afterwards and she was fine, b...

A case. we know that the white house has tried to block witnesses, block testimony, has told staff to defy subpoenas. whether that constitutes obstruction, do they really want to test that? but as you mentioned, its the obstruction of justice charge, the third charge. rocket mueller said in his report, there is significant evidence for eight occasions when donald trump attempted to obstruct justice. but mueller said in his testimony, its not up for me to file the criminal charge because i cant. ...

Allegations of obstruction of justice detailed in the mueller report? liberal democrats want to include them into the articles against the president. moderates are weary about going beyond the narrow scope of the ukraine investigation. its one of the key things democrats have to resolve as they push forward into this investigation. jeremy herb, cnn, capitol hill. scott lucas, a politics professor at the university of birmingham. good morning to you, scott. >> good morning, natalie. >> house de...

I think thats when they should have ended hearing if in saying okay you know what were done here. mr. president we apologize for all that weve put you and your family through it has been really a true hoax and witch hunt. real quick you say in op-ed on fox news.com that mr. mueller doesnt want scandal to end, why? >> because i think he is a part of those in thes that he hired i dont think that was accidental but a whole staff of people who hated the president. and i think he doesnt want it to en...

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Because i didnt think this day would come. rocket mueller stood here and gave a statement and said my report speaks for itself. and it seemed that was the last we were going to hear from him before he stepped out of the public eye. now he has agreed to do this but really because of the pressure of a subpoena. as we know, robert mueller is someone who is very law and order and would honor that and would not fight a subpoena over this. it is definitely something he was reluctant to do. think about...

I will say just from the justice departments perspective, they have long seen william barr as the person who should be the spokesman for the report rather than rocket mueller. because they think it is his job to be communicating. heres the bagpipe. you might have sound of that. they think it is his job to be communicating with congress rather than robert mueller himself. that is obviously a disagreement, though. >> julia ainslie and the image of the attorney general -- why was he playing the bag...

So it possible mueller has conflicts of interest that are perhaps being overlooked? >> no. that completely fits with the narrative that continues to come out of trump and the trump camp and his surrogates. the suggestion of a conflict of interest is done to discredit the basis of the investigation. who else to target better than robert mueller. but the thing about rocket mueller, because he keeps his mouth shut, keeps his head down and works steadfastly forward, that is exactly what the house re...

Testify against a co-defendant, paul manafort. they both pled guilty in october for financial crimes unrelated to the trump campaign. >> now we have three former advisers to the president, two very significant, the former national security adviser, michael flynn, and the former campaign chairman who are pleading guilty to crime buzz also cooperating with investigators. >> thats why, gates cooperating will put additional pressure on paul manafort. we dont know if this is just dealing with paul ma...

It has been shared with members young the house intelligence committee. i believe they still havent seen it. and president trumps own department of justice, the u.s. department of justice, has been strenuously objecting to a public release of it. i trust congressman adam schiff, who says it is a thinly veiled attack piece designed to undermine the credibility of the fbi and the investigation of rocket mueller. and i think before releasing something like this, it should be carefully and thoroughl...