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Computers, to beat computer passwords and steal classified material. the trump justice department has now added to that indictment and now going after assange for publishing that material. and that is not just a danger to assanges freedom, it is a direct danger to every single actual journalist and journalistic outlet. the question is pretty simple. will donald trumps fixer bill cram b barr eventually please the boss? joining me now joyce vance, walter dellinger, and david corn. i have both jour...

Happening. this all signaled to moscow that trump didnt mind. were not talking about that. were talking about obstruction issues, issues about turning things over, and bill barr is out there saying no, the real thing is how this investigation began. not what it produced, but how it began. so i think trump and the republicans have turned circles around the democrats and have turned this whole story upside down and its become a process story. were fighting over who is going to testify where and --...

Prevents us from talking about what is central to this investigation, what is in that two-volume report. >> 100%. and i agree with david 100%. i agree with walter dellinger. ill add on to that that were not even talking about the important obstructive conduct we should be talking about which is in the mueller report. were not even talking about volume two which is the president of the united states engaging in conduct that it would be a strong case that any prosecutor would have a pretty easy ti...

Gather evidence, need to hear from bob mueller. they need to get the entirety of the report and then make a reasoned decision whether or not theyre going to go forward with the impeachment process. >> joining us now two democratic members of congress who represent the big three. the big three investigative committees in the house of representatives. congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois is a house of the oversight committee and jamie raskin of maryland is a member of the house oversight ...

It wasnt explicit but he wasnt able to get the facts that you see mueller have elsewhere so detailed in the report. >> walter dellinger, this conversation, the voice mail and the conversation from john dowd from the presidents personal lawyer strike me as a disbarable material for an attorney. it appears to be the special counsel reported it in the context of the obstruction of justice mosaic that he assembled involving the president and now the presidents lawyer. but what do you make of robert ...

Mind. now, its very interesting as you pointed out. i mean you immediately think whu is this not yet another hi obstructive act that trump should be responsible for. lets put the lawyers awful conduct aside for a second. it seems that mueller wasnt able to get to the bottom of was this is something that was directed by trump, did he have discussions with trump about doing this when he communicated it to flynns counsel. i think that we can all assume that it was something that trump understood wa...

Know yet is just, its mind blowing how corrupt his behavior was both in with respect to russia and with respect to obstruction. we need to get the focus back on that conduct. >> were going to have to take a break here. walter and mimi, thank you both very much for starting us off tonight on this new legal material. very much appreciate it. thank you. >> youre welcome, lawrence. >> when we come back, what will congress do about the president? congressman rajaish that more think and later, the pre...

Raskin of maryland is a member of the house oversight committee and the house judiciary committee. thank you very much for joining us tonight. you -- i have to assume are you feeling increasing pressure about the issue of impeachment. you possibly heard in our first segment tonight, walter dellinger, his op-ed piece today in the "washington post" saying the judiciary committee already has more than enough for impeachment. >> yeah, its like water behind a dam. the pressure is just building every ...

Respond sufficiently. but it was the presidential campaign of donald trump that was clearly welcoming actions by the russians. what the special counsel says that they did not have proof beyond a reasonable doubt that there was an actual agreement between the trump campaign and the russians. so they found copious evidence of how the trump campaign had welcomed it, and the president meeting with vladimir putin and not raising this right after the mueller report comes out. and details what mueller ...

Crimes. >> in your view, can donald trump pardon himself? >> no, i dont think he can. i think the pardon power does have certain limits. he has to execute the laws faithfully. thats what the constitution says. it is not executing the laws faithfully to pardon yourself, your son, your relatives, co-conspirators. i dont think thats going to fly. keep in mind they could still file an indictment against him. there could be one filed for all we know that would be under seal because that would be tota...