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Attorney, nbc legal analyst, he joins me now. we know the d.a.'s office has issued an investigation into schneiderman. there are some notable characteristics to this case. the fact patterns, if you will. you've got four women independent of each other telling very similar stories. the likelihood here that charges are eventually filed against eric schneiderman. >> it's hard to say because there's so many different assault crimes and different statutes of limitations in new york. on the low end, third degree assault requires only a reckless causing of any bodily injury. as you move up the contin...

Corrupt intent. for that you need other fact patterns. you need more insight into his thinking. it's not just good enough he had it on his mind, he had to have done it to impede the investigation. i don't think we have seen evidence of that as yet in public. >> ken, i know you have been talking to some of your sources, officials within the law enforcement community. what are they saying about come comey's interview, media tour. what are you hearing? >> president's rhetoric in attacking comey is without prez dent and it's bad hoemoment fore country. who would have thought they would see a presi...

Leads to obstruction of justice? >> well, first of all, thank goodness we have a man named bob mueller who will look into that. congress does not investigate crime. we're not equipped to do it. we're not very good at it. i have total confidence in mueller. you gave me two hypotheticals, but they're very different. one hype thet is the president asked two people if there was no evidence of collusion, would you say so publicly. that to me is tantamount to a defendant or a suspect asking the police if at the end of your investigation you find nothing, will you say that? that is very different fro...

President trump and the white house, it is majority bad for fact patterns if you believe this testimony under oath about the president's approach, his pro pr propriety, the potential investigations. some of these descriptions sound like donald trump was maybe upset or obsessed but might not necessarily have the criminal mindset one would need to say that this is the worst thing possible. >> is this trump being trump? >> trump being trump. another thing, the majority is bad. the other thing that is clearly better for the white house is that in this written testimony, the director is not saying ...

Justice here. >> mika, always said on the campaign trail if people asked if i'm a lawyer, i say, yes, i am but not a good one. let's go to jonathan turley who was a good one. so they wouldn't judge me harsher on the campaign trail. of course it had the added benefit of being true. let's go, if you are setting up an obstruction of justice charge, and let's just say that instead of being president of the united states you're a private citizen and you insert these fact patterns -- this fact pattern in, we'll just walk through it. sally yates goes to the white house and warns the white house in no...