Executive branch he cant ever obstruct justice in connection with the executive branch activities. Much more on james comey in just a moment. Just listen to this. From the president s offtherails surprise News Conference today. What id like to see with iran, id like to see them call me. You know, john kerry, he speaks to them a lot. John kerry tells them not to call. Thats a violation of the logan act. And, frankly, he should be prosecuted on that, but my people dont want to do anything thats only the democrats do that kind of stuff. You know . Kerrys Spokesman Says everything trump said there is wrong. But this is a big deal. The president says hed like to see john kerry prosecuted, but his people dont want to. So hes talked to somebody about prosecuting someone he sees as an enemy. You remember it was just last week that senator Kamala Harris asked the attorney general about exactly that. Attorney general barr, has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone . I wouldnt i wouldnt yes or no. Could you repeat that question . I will repeat it. Has the president or anyone at the white house ever asked or suggested that you open an investigation of anyone . Yes or no, please, sir. The president or anybody else. Seems youd remember Something Like that, be able to tell us. Yeah, but im trying to grapple with the word, suggest. I mean, there have been discussions of matters out there that theyve not asked me to open an investigation, but perhaps theyve suggested. I dont know. I wouldnt say suggest. Hinted . I dont know. Inferred . You dont know . Okay. The attorney general really didnt sound like he wanted to answer that question, did he . Did you see cory bookers face . Said everything. Well, tonight, senator harris sent him a letter demanding answers. Sent the attorney general a letter demanding answers. Pointedly saying, in light of the president s deeply troubling statements, i request that you supplement your testimony and clarify your answers to my question. Lets see if he answers. Lot to talk about. Ryan lizzas here. Carrie cordero. Renato. Did you see senator bookers face there . That was great. I didnt catch it the first time. Good evening, everyone. With the former fbi director james comey making news at tonights cnn town hall, he says this about the president and possible obstruction. Watch this. Theres ten different episodes. I actually think the ones that would be most likely charge rd not necessarily the ones that involved me particul, particula mcgahn episode and another episode he was trying to get the attorney general to limit the investigation to only future elections are examples any reasonable prosecutor would charge. If, you know, there are now, what, think its up to 800 former federal prosecutors who worked in democrat and republican administrations who signed a statement saying muellers findings would have produced obstruction charges against President Trump if he werent president. Do you agree . E yeah, i agree. No doubt. Do doubt. He believes there was obstruction in ten episodes as he put it mueller laid out. He also agrees with you, you were one of the 800 former fl federal prosecutors who say trump would have been charged if he werent president. What is the message to congress and the department of justice and to the American People . Think the message to the American People is the president of the United States commit add crime and although that is not completely transparent to the average person when they read the Mueller Report, its plainly obvious to someone like james comey or myself, former prosecutors who are looking at them. Mueller laid out the evidence and made clear each of the elements. Do we want the president to be above the law . Its a bigger question. Its a proper inquiry for congress. I think there was a cnn poll, 87 of americans havent read much of the Mueller Report, so i think its something that our elected representatives are taking a look at and i think they have a right to examine it and educate the public on the issue. Im seeing this as you are. You have to put it up on the screen. I dont follow the president , i ubs hes responding via twitter. Lets put it up. James comey is a disgrace to the fbi and will go down as the worst director in its long and once proud history. He brought the fbi down. Almost all republicans and democrats thought he should be fired but the fbi will regain greatness because of the great men and win who work there. A lot of greats there. Shocking, ryan . Its shocking that he wasnt live tweeting the event, itself. And that it took him this long to send that out. Of course, its not shocking. You know, weve all been waiting for his response. Because comey, you know, comey did not pull any punches. You know, he rarely does these days. But he was very clear that he that his reading of the Mueller Report was that the obstruction charges were, you know, at least several of them were very clear cut, and he has very little respect for this president. So, no, im not surprised that trump would go after him at all. In fact, it was kind of a mild tweet for trump, to be honest. Well said. Carrie, theres also this moment. Watch. Do you think the russians have leverage over President Trump . I dont know the answer to that. You think its possible . Yes. So thats the fear even today that there is kompromat on President Trump. Would that have been in the Mueller Report, you think . Well, remember, there was part of the report that talked about the pattern of obstruction that the president engaged in over a period of time, and then theres the other part that talked about whether or not there was a criminal conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. And part of that underlying investigation would have been the National Security part of the investigation. Thats the area where actually the Mueller Report doesnt get into the heavy National Security side of things. The Senate Intelligence committee has been doing an investigation on that, and actually, the house Intelligence Committee, both the chair and the Ranking Member in a rare bipartisan move, have requested more information that the government, the Justice Department, has, and the special counsel discovered in the course of their investigation on the National Security part. So one thing to keep in mind is that the Mueller Report actually, as comprehensive as it is, doesnt actually tell the entire story. It was never going to. It was never intended to because it was a prosecutive document. Yeah. So, renato, i found this there were lots of fascinating moments during the town hall, but this one was maybe one of the most fascinating. Comey explained how people like barr and others around trump make compromises to survive this administration, himself included, and he told this story. Here it is. So i sat there at dinner with him and he went on about how he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history. He didnt make fun of a disabled reporter. And all these lies are coming at you and youre sitting there over your salad thinking thats not true, thats not true, thats not true. You dont interrupt the president of the United States and say, mr. President , i saw the tape. You made fun of a disabled reporter. All of a sudden you finish the dinner or meeting and realize, oh my god, im part of circle of assent. Did i agree thats true because i didnt speak . There are these rituals of praise of the leader. Pretty soon youre wrapped so tightly in this web that theres no way out for you. The wait he describes, renato, how it washes over you, is that what were seeing from folks in the administration, others in the gop . That was okay. We lost carrie. Sorry about that. That was scary. Yeah. Renato, is renato still there . Theres carrie. Shes back. Im still here. Go ahead. What i was going to say, that is what i think we saw today, for example, r we saw that a lot with rod rosenstein. Heres a man who, you know, just months ago was, you know, desperate to hang on to his job. Was very concerned about being fired. Thought he didnt want to go out via tweet. And he got his big sendoff today and, you know, he was standing there silently as the attorney general lied and misled the American People. So i, to me, its really hard for me to understand why otherwise honorable people are doing what they do, and i think comey had limited insight into that, but i think we got a little bit of a sense of that today. So, carrie, comey was asked a few questions about former secretary of state and democratic president ial candidate hillary clinton. Watch this. No, ive never met secretary clinton ever, and so ive never been youve never, ever met her . Ever. Ive never been in her physical presence. Actually never spoken to her on the phone or otherwise. What would you say . Well, i would hope that i could have a conversation with he her. Look, i feel badly that she feels like she said in her book i think that i shivved her. I hope to give her the chance to understand why we made the decisions we made. It wasnt about trying to hurt her or hurt donald trump or help donald trump. Carrie, are you surprised given comeys outsized role in the 2016 election that they had never that theyve never met . I dont know. Not necessarily. I think sometimes people think that, you know, everybody in washington knows each other, but its not always the case, and given that he was supervising an investigation that was looking at activities that she was involved in with respect to the email servers and everything, it doesnt surprise me, actually, that in his role as fbi director that he would not have met her. But i think the bigger point that he was trying to make was that despite the fact that he is still not liked by many people in the Democratic Party and theres still a lot of hard feelings there, that hes trying to elevate the conversation and identify things that people can be not just partisan about, but recognize that whats going on in the white house right now is something different. And that even people who have political disagreements can agree that we should have somebody in the white house whos not a liar and who people can have some confidence and trust in. Okay. So lets talk about what i talked about in the open to this hour, ryan. And that is the president of the United States talking about john kerry. Saying that john accusing him of violating the logan act. And its what senator Kamala Harris asked him about last week, the attorney general, and the attorney general just said, okay, well, i dont know if anyone has ever suggested that i should prosecute anybody or start an investigation on anyone. This is exactly what Kamala Harris was asking about. She sent the attorney general a letter today. What do you think . Well, couple things, one, you know, i wonder if barr will now speak up and say what he said in one of the moments in his testimony saying that he hoped people would stop using the criminal Justice System for political purposes. But isnt that what the president said today that he wanted to use the criminal Justice System . Absolutely. And barr was directing that at democrats. Arguing that they were trying to use the criminal Justice System to get the president and put aside for a second whether you believe thats true or not. I dont think thats actually true. I dont think thats what the Mueller Investigation showed, but the president does think that way. Hes thought that way since he was a candidate. Hes thought that way in the way hes talked about who his attorney general should be, in the way that hes talked historically about how the attorney general and president , what their relationship should be. He thinks that eric holder was, you know, sort of picked as a protector of obama. He thinks that the Kennedy John KennedyRobert Kennedy model was a good model and one to emulate thinking Robert Kennedy was there to protect john kennedy. And, you know, barrs the attorney general, might want to speak up and say, you know, mr. President , thats not how this works. I doubt that will happen, but he fired at democrats the other day when they said Something Like this and the president has a much longer track record of thinking that the Justice Department should be his political tool. Yeah. Thank you, all. See you fex time. Thanks, don. Thank you so much. President laughed the other day when someone in his rally crowd yelled out that migrants should be shot. Thats right. He laughed. The thing is, this isnt the first time hes made light of violence against other people. And is there really ever any defense of any president joking about violence . Morning. What are you doing . Isnt it obvious . Nah. Were delivering live market coverage and offering expert analysis completely free. Were helping you make sense of the markets without cable or a subscription from anywhere you are. I get that. But what are you doing here . Nice pajamas. Really . I say pajamas. Pajamas, pajamas, whichever. Good. Yahoo finance live. Stream free anywhere. Welcome to the show. 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But how do you stop these people . You cant. Theres no thats only in the panhandle you can get away with that stuff. What a riot. Lets have a big old laugh about that. In response to the backlash against these comments, a Trump Campaign official noted the president said that you cant shoot migrants. That is true. Thats not the point here. Instead of condemning an act of violence, as a president is supposed to do, this president and his adoring crowd laughed along. The president hinted at attacking migrants before. Listen to this. This is from march, back in march. Other countries stand there with machine guns ready to fire. We cant do that, and i wouldnt want to do that, okay . Its a very effective way of doing it and i wouldnt want to do it. We cant do it. Wouldnt want to do that and we cant do that. The president said we cant threaten migrants with machine guns but thinks it would be very effective. This president has a long history of encouraging violence. I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this . Theyd be carried out on a stretcher, folks. The guards are gentle with him. Hes walking out with a big high five. Smiling, laughing. Like to punch him in the face. If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Seriously. Knock the hell i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise. Get him out. Try not to hurt him. If you do, ill defend you in court. Dont worry about it. Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore. There are no consequences to protesting anymore. There used to be consequences. I would fighting, folks. I dont know if i would have done well. I would have been boom, boom, beat the the president. Team trump denies it. Over and over again. I certainly dont think that the president at any point has done anything but condemn violence. Against journalists or anyone else. The president in no way, form, or fashion, has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary. And the idea that the president or anybody on his team or in his administration would encourage violence is absolutely absurd. Must have never gone to a rally. Maybe she doesnt have a television. We just played the clips for her. Dont believe your own eyes and your own ears, what did i say, hes never done it. You heard him right there. Make no mistake, this smar