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More importantly the obstruction of justice requires you act to obstruct or interfere usually with judicial or congressional proceeding, neither of which was pending at this time. you also tend to show it was done for a corrupt, or corruptly, to use the statutory term. this doesn't meet the usual definition of that. now, does that mean this can't be obstruction? of course not. it can be evidence of obstruction, but we're not there yet. you know, this is something that was wildly inappropriate for the president to ask the fbi director, if he did ask that. this is something worthy of investigati...

Facts. you put it down on the calendar. there's a lot of prosecutors across america that would be very comfortable going in front of any federal judge trying to prove obstruction of justice under that fact pattern. would they not, professor? >> this isn't going to be real popular, but i don't think so. my family has been pressing me on this. it's sort of like going across-country with them and saying, are we there yet? are we there yet? everyone wants to reach that point. you say, i can still see our house. it's only been 150 days or so since the inauguration. the fact is, i don't think this m...

>> no. there's two reasons why that's not the case. first of all, if a president abuses his power, he actually can be subject to impeachment. the nixon articles of impeachment did include an obstruction count. i think there's distinguishing factors. it is analogous to this one. i don't believe we satisfy that standard either. you're going to have adam chiffon who was my opposing counsel in the last impeachment held in the united states senate, courteous trial. we were on either side of that case. i think adam would be the first to say this is a high standard to make. the second reason, in term...

He took a son of criticism for that. the idea that comey wouldn't lean in to testifying publicly now that he's out of office, my guess is we'll see him up on the hill pretty soon. >> matthew, a lot of people wondering this morning if that constitutes, what happened in the room between director comey and president trump constitutes obstruction of justice. harold laid out the case basically that there has to be some intent there. how do you prove intent in a room where there are two versions of the same story and one guy says -- the president says i hope you can let this go and the white house c...

Has been unprecedented obstructi obstruction, when you talk about jobs, the republicans have said no to absolutely everything. they are the party of no. >> how can you say that, when there are 100 bills sitting in the senate? we said yes to a ton. >> we said yes to a ton. the president's policies are slowing the economy down. the american people know it. the american people know it and by the way, it's great news that there are 288,000 jobs created. it's great news that the unemployment rate such as it is with all the proviso that sean mentioned is down to 6.1%. the stock market is at record h...