Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170516:23:47:00
Correspondent pete williams. pete, obstruction of justice carries a lot of meaning to the civilian non-lawyer it means stopping the wheels of justice from coming at you, using your power to do it. what is it legally? >> i think you just said a moment ago that life is complicated, and this is complicated too. and i've talked to several federal prosecutors and not surprisingly they have different notions about whether the bare bones of what we know here would constitute obstruction of justice. the central thing here is that unlike many federal statutes, the obstruction statutes don't have a spec...