Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180602:20:07:00
Technical legalistic parsing of a particular federal statute against obstruction of justice, one that says it's a crime to impede a pending proceeding. there's a kourt ruling that says a mere fbi investigation doesn't count as such a proceeding because they're gathering information, not adjudicating anything. also arguments he didn't know necessarily at the time of the conversation that the fbi was actively investigating flynn. so he couldn't have had the intent to interfere with it anyway. all of those arguments are premised on the idea that the relevant law is this one i mentioned, section 1...