practical definition of obstruction of justice obstruction of justice actual ay is. if you intend to waylay an investigation that should be ongoing. the idea that the president of the free world, the president of the united states comes out and says something to comey or to the rest of us, threatening that he has tapes certainly could be suggested to impact it. it's funny, brian sort of said "veep." i was going to say it remind me of "veep" meets "the emperor's new clothes" as far as trying to understand. >> guys, this is real life. this is really happening. >> thank you, brooke. but it's really trying to figure out what do we look at and now say that 45 days ago he says he has tapes when he really didn't and then he jokes about us when he comes back in to say i didn't really have tapes and now i'm amused because i've obsessed over it. but we've obsessed over the fact that our president wouldn't tell us for 45 days and that's the real concern. when we look at obstruction of justice, you look at the overall perspective of what somebody is doing. when you take what he did with