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>> eboni: we are debuting a new segment called "the docket." huge story coming out of washington about the implications of the comey memo. the big legal questions. the big one right now is can there be a charge of obstruction of justice against a sitting united states president. i want to break all of this dow down. the short answer is yes, around obstruction of justice. it can happen but it's very, very difficult. people have been talking about this in a way that makes it seem like it's easy to do, and it's not. what is required, u.s. code section 1505. talks about the requirement. specific i...

Is case law that says that that doesn't apply to an fbi investigation. 1505, it would apply if it was an irs case. doesn't apply when the fbi is investigating, according to the u.s. attorney's manual that governs federal prosecutions there is really not a statute that's designed to address a situation where the president and the director of the fbi are interacting in a way that people might call obstructive. potentially more interesting here, and of course we don't know the facts, and that goes back to jim's comments and tells us we need an aggressive and thorough investigation. but there is a...

Once you become a witness in a case, you recuse. >> joyce? >> yes. >> your thoughts. >> so jim knows that it's the job of the agents to push prosecutors for charges. and it looks easy to charge obstruction in this case. but when you look at the array of federal statutes that are designed to address obstruction, the statute that you talked about that involves obstructing a federal investigation, there is case law that says that that doesn't apply to an fbi investigation. 1505, it would apply if it was an irs case. doesn't apply when the fbi is investigating, according to the u.s. attorney's man...

>> right. >> and joyce knows this. she has had assistants it happens to. once you become a witness in a case, you recuse. >> joyce? >> yes. >> your thoughts. >> so jim knows that it's the job of the agents to push prosecutors for charges. and it looks easy to charge obstruction in this case. but when you look at the array of federal statutes that are designed to address obstruction, the statute that you talked about that involves obstructing a federal investigation, there is case law that says that that doesn't apply to an fbi investigation. 1505, it would apply if it was an irs case. doesn't ...

Documents related to the committee report and the cia said we can't give them to you. the committee is the custodian of them. so if in fact the committee was the proper custodian of the documents, and i think that's the reasonable interpretation of what we know right now, then there are a lot of constitutional and criminal issues. for example, there is a statute 1505 that says any interference with an investigation is a serious criminal offense. going into committee documents, searching through them, and then deleting documents i think would be a textbook example of interfering in a congressio...