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The best birthday for president trump. this is exactly the sort of headline, the headline bob mueller is now looking into possible obstruction of justice by the president. this is the kind of story line he's been trying so much to avoid. you remember it was last week that president trump and his legal team were saying he had been completely and totally vindicated pointing to jim comey's testimony that he had told the president on three separate occasions that he himself was not personally under investigation. this latest report by the post shows that has all changed. this is a very big deal. a...

He is so fixated on this russia investigation. and that's going to isolate him and the white house down the line. >> i mean, look, we got two important time markers here. we're right at about 24 hours since we learned and started covering the shooting here, david. and i think we're at the two-year mark of when donald trump got into the game to be president. >> tomorrow, right? he road down the escalator -- >> we have this confluence of moment tus events. there is no question that people on the right were trying to play what happened yesterday to political advantage and blaming the left. but th...

Saying the threat to national security from these leaks of private and highly classified conversations. so the white house clearly not happy about this. but also not explicitly denying this bombshell report. this is all happening, erin, as you know, the white house team, sean spicer among them, are on a plane heading to their first stop in this high-stakes foreign trip. they're expected top land in saudi arabia early saturday morning, our time. a little before 4:00 a.m. we'll have to see what else breaks during the hours in the air. >> thank you, athena. they are fully wired on that plane. it'...

Process. what is the political trigger to it, not the legal trigger to it. remember, republicans are in charge -- >> to do it, david, the cumulative bill -- >> but what i'm saying -- >> is so rapid, it has consumed the presidency. >> we're not there yet. we haven't seen that yet. we need to watch for this. the moment that republicans feel that donald trump is a threat to their political power is the moment you will see this escalate quickly towards something like that. we'll look for the polls to come out. we have two special elections coming out. when members of congress, republicans, start f...

>> no, no. this is a completed obstruction, arguably. i disagree with alan's assessment. he's reaching back to aaron burr's trial and -- >> those people wrote the constitution. >> yes, i know they did. but richard nixon was -- you know, the impeachment charges against him, one of the biggest ones was based on obstruction of justice. and of course bill clinton obstruction of juflt so -- >> they did illegal -- >> modern history suggests that obstruction is a perfectly acceptable charge if you can prove it. i say that after today, when he talks about comey being a nut to the russians and he says ...