Page 27 - 1512 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That this president poses to our country. >> do you believe that the only basis to impeach president trump right now is based on what comes out of the mueller report, or is there something beyond that that is an impeachment offense from what you've learned so far? >> that was the reason that i filed those articles of impeachment in july of 2017, obstruction of justice, and even if there's nothing in the mueller report, the president is guilty of violating section 1512 b 3 of the federal criminal code when he tried to interfere in the flynn investigation, when he fired comey to obstruct the rus...

Statute, 1512, doesn't distinguish. it criminalizes both and for good reason, because, you know, we don't care whether it's open or secret. we just care that someone is witness tampering. now, the president has offered two defenses today. one, his counsel is saying, well, trump was saying to witnesses, don't lie. tell the truth. now, look, i mean that's pretty unusual, right? we have to think about this. donald trump is telling people to not lie? i mean that is uncharacteristic behavior for the man. i mean, you know, you can almost envision trump's pants on fire when he started tweeting today....

Tell me about that, neal. >> yeah. i mean it starts with the president firing comey because he's upset with the russia investigation. it continues as much as last month when he fires jeffrey sessions, not some liberal stalwart, because he's upset that sessions has recused from the russia investigation. and he installs in his place a lackey, whitaker, a fake attorney general, bypassing the senate entirely, and there's no precedent for this whatsoever. so the president is trying to stack the deck at every turn. he's trying to put his loyalists in at the justice department. he's trying to denigra...

The president said at the end, nice to know some people still have guts, to which george conway retweeted and added a comment say file under 18 usc subsection 1503 and 1512. those are federal statutes involving witness tampering and influencing jurors. eric trump criticized conway. he said -- >> kellyanne conway has weighed in in the past on some of the tweets that her husband has tweeted. she said he's an outspoken and he has his own views. she might not share them.

Under 18 u.s.c. sections 1503-1512. it deals with obstruction of justice and witness tampering saying it is a crime for a person to, quote, attempt to influence, delay or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding. is donald trump attempting to influence testimony? yes, he obviously is. and he put that in writing today and proved the case against himself in writing today beyond a reasonable doubt. most of the news media will not see it that way because the news media has indeed lost its collective mind. the news media lost its mind and its balance for donald trump years ago ...