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The russia investigation, he was just trying to end this piece with mike flynn. maybe that was the case, but when you look at it in context, the president the day before took a step that he, thought naively, would thought wound. he says, that's not going to end the investigation. a few hours later, quite clumsily takes another step that he thinks may end the russia investigation. >> in 30 seconds, can we assume that has been part of a whiteboard time line in the mueller office? >> they may not have known about the christie conversation. but you see the series of actions, he pushes comey, that ...

Took a step that he, thought naively, would thought wound. he says, that's not going to end the investigation. a few hours later, quite clumsily takes another step that he thinks may end the russia investigation. >> in 30 seconds, can we assume that has been part of a whiteboard time line in the mueller office? >> they may not have known about the christie conversation. but you see the series of actions, he pushes comey, that doesn't work, fires comey, that doesn't work, and he spends the summer after that, trying to end the special counsel investigation. it's a long history, and i'm

Individuals. the difference here is that the potential obstruction could have been on a national security investigation, one that impacted the entire country. this is not just on a bank robbery. this is not just on a regular crime that they were looking at. this was the attack on the election. >> absolutely. and another piece at the end of the piece that is also another extraordinary thing a lot of us will remember, the oval office meeting in which donald trump invites russian officials to the oval office shortly after he fired mr. comey, and that, too, became a part of this inquiry. >> correc...

So that means donald trump. this is before mueller's investigation starts. donald trump fires comey and they use that as an excuse to see whether donald trump is colluding with the russians. whether he is a national security threat. i find this so ironic because if you go back, comey himself used a dirty dossier that was the sources were russian. todd: circular lodge reasoning again. griff: i disagree with you. you want our fbi, who is the premier institution of law enforcement in this country to do their job here. they opened up the inquiry. whether justified or not. they opened up and they f...

Happening again and that was the broader national security concern. the interesting thing is we think of obstruction of justice as something that happens in the criminal context where someone is interfering with the witness or lying to investigators in a criminal investigation that's looking at one or several individuals. the difference here is that the potential obstruction could have been on a national security investigation, one that impacted the entire country. this is not just on a bank robbery. this is not just on a regular, you though, crime they were looking at. this was the attack on ...