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Terms of people like paul manafort and his conversations with russians, people working for the russian government. the big question is, what did the president know? when did he know it? will that be answered in this report? the other big thing is the entire obstruction issue. we have heard almost nothing from the special counsel's office in terms of that. what did they find? did they find that the president tried to obstruct justice by firing james comey? did they find that he perhaps was trying to end the flynn investigation when he asked james comey to drop it? those are the key questions in...

That deal? there are so many questions we just don't know the answers to. that's an issue i think we are going to learn more about. it is the investigation of the president and his businesses. we just don't know where it will go or when. i will add a third one i think is really a ticking time bomb. that's the obstruction issue. there is a lot that we don't know about. we know the special counsel has done a lot of investigating, interviewed a lot of white house staff including the white house counsel. that's a potentially explosive area for the president. >> that's a lot of lines of inquiry. th...

That, you know, obstruction in this way, firing comey, the president is allowed to fire whomever he wants, whenever he wants, but there are other ways to obstruct justice. and as you were just talking about with pardons, et cetera, et cetera, it seems to me that the democrats are going to come down and focus more on the obstruction issue and maybe try and get him to say, well, what would constitute obstruction from a president? setting aside where you think the president cannot obstruct justice, i.e. comey. we don't know that mueller is just looking at comey on obstruction. he might be looking...

Lot about russia, he knows a lot about payments, other payments perhaps. the key thing here is the coverup in terms of the coverup of the payments, the coverup of the contacts with russia, the coverup of the moscow project. that is central to this entire investigation and what members of congress are going to want to know about it. that goes to the obstruction issue. that is where members of congress can be key in perhaps impeachment. >> you have new reporting on the white house legal team gearing up for this and the ramifications that could bring. >> that's right. all indications are pointing...

His associate jerome coresy or inconsistent with his statements to congress. they explored when the man had advance knowledge to post hacked emails to the clinton campaign. they denied it. another outstanding question is whether mueller is -- on sunday the incoming chairman of the powerful senate judiciary committee was pressed on the obstruction issue and the president's choice to lead the justice department, william barr. >> when you fire an attorney general it's hard to obstruct justice if you can have almost unlimited ability to fire the attorney general. i shared many of mr. barr's though...