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Determination as to whether or not the person trying oh obstruct knew there was an ongoing investigation and then endeavored to do it, improperly as he may have. >> phil mudd, welcome. >> thank you. just a moment on this. note what coats said this morning. it's critical. he said he did not feel pressure. believe it or not, this in some ways, in some respects does not look like pressure. that seems odd. >> okay. >> he didn't say he never had a conversation. i'm talking about coats this morning. >> never denied it. >> it's a very critical point here. the question should have been, did you ever t...

Conversation. they said in my judgment, i didn't feel pressured. >> but what about the comey statement? phil? >> let me give you two perspectives. the flynn piece is the most critical piece. as a nonlawyer, i'll play one on -- that said, the reason why i would say this doesn't look like pressure to me, it is so far out side the bonds of what you would consider to be an acceptable conversation. somebody says to me, why don't you drop the conversation? i couldn't have done that at the bureau but if i could, you would have said, that's the craziest thing i've ever heard. the prospect that you wou...

And trying to find something of substance in comey's opening statement like a guy looking through a telescope. michael smerconish, host of "mer c smerconish," first things first. i'm also channelling -- we had matt schlapp on saying this is just one account. you know, unless somebody corroborating comey's account, he wasn't buying it. >> yeah. i disagree with that. the devil is in the details. you're right, as a trial lawyer, if i had two conflicting points of view on a factual matter, the devil is in the details, he or she who provides the most comprehensive account was the one that would usu...

This information and something else needs to be said. that comey statement is a confirmation of what some have regarded as feak news because you think, brooke, about all of the reporting from cnn, from "the washington post," from "the new york times" that we've been discussing in the last several weeks and months but they've been based on anonymous accounts within the white house. this is confirmation. this is comey saying that every one of those details, as they related to his interaction with the president, are accurate. and i take away from the rnc statement perhaps the fact that the republ...

Essentially to be alone with him is problematic and indicates a state of mind. >> why is that problematic, for people who don't understand? why is that a problem? >> why would you ask the attorney general to leave the room when you're talking to the director of the fbi who reports up through the justice department? what would be the rational for that? there's no goodness sense behind it. it seems to me that it implies some ulterior motive and it's repeated with coats. if "the washington post" story is true, he asks again others to leave the room, to have this conversation in private without wi...