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Road. We dont have the facts yet, but were going to initiate proper investigations. Its our job to protect the rule of law. To do that, we are going to initiate investigations into awuss of power, into corruption and into into obstruction of justice. The president has just responded. Take a listen. Are you going to cooperate with mr. Nadler . I cooperate all the time. No collusion. All a hoax. Manu is on capitol hill. So what more to we know b about what the committee is seeking . They are trying to investigate what they believe is obstruction of justice by this president. Abuse of power in th...

About crucial testimony. Changing his story. A trump appointee told a gop senator that aid to the you yan was tied to the push for investigations. Why did the diplomat later deny any quid pro quo. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre many tin the situation. The white house could be hit with gn a new issue knsubpoena at any m. In separate move, democrats are asking Vice President pence for documents related to his possible role in the push for ukraine. Mr. Trump is threatening to defy congress and withhold documents unless the full hou...

And felt at least implicitly threatened by the way cox had been ousted on direct orders from the president , that was not what they got with Leon Jaworski. He was rock ribbed and straightforward and unintimidated and 45 years ago this month, Leon Jaworski assembled this 62page document. Summarizing material that the watergate grand jury had obtained that was relevant to understanding the president s own conduct within the watergate scandal. Now grand juries conduct their work in secret. It is absolutely entintergral ie used for one purpose, drawing up indictments. Thats all grand juries do. Th...

Question of obstruction. Barr just revealed that mueller did not indicate that he wanted congress to make that decision on obstruction of justice. He also said that mueller did not specifically ask the attorney general to make that decision. He said thats generally how it works, the Justice Department makes that decision about charges with obstruction of justice. Now theres been lots of questions about the redactions. Hes making it clear that he plans to hand over a redacted version of this report but has not discussed overruled redactions with the mueller team and has not discussed redactions...

Balance that is the separation of powers outlined in the constitution. Mr. Trump has declared an allout war on efforts by House Democrats to look into his official conduct and business dealings. And that has legal experts across the spectrum warning that the president s categorical opposition to what he sees as partisan meddling could create a constitutional crisis. An impasse that the interlocking powers and responsibilities by the framers cannot solve. Democrats ratcheting up the language about the need to serve as a guardrail on conduct that may ultimately lay the foundation for trumps impe...