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Issue, i think in particular, the obstruction issue. and with richard nixon, obviously, that was the aspect of his presidency that brought him down, much more than the break-in to the watergate complex. and in this case we're looking not simply at the election and the activities of advisers, but how did president trump respond. and was the firing of james comey, the fbi director, as president trump himself has suggested, an effort to push away this investigation? so it's a very serious matter, and that's why the news about flynn this weekend will cause concern in the white house. >> and samant...

And at the same time the obstruction issue revolved in part about flynn with statements by president trump that he wanted the flynn investigation to go away. so it actually is quite important. he's a big piece of this puzzle inside the presidency, not just in the campaign. >> and samantha, president trump's lawyer said, quote, no one should draw the conclusion this means anything about general flynn cooperating against the president, but as you read that, does it still indicate that perhaps the white house is a little worried? >> i think that people in the white house are probably uneasy this ...

In 2015 was before the grand jury recently. so, you know, that would seem to be far afield from any of the core issues that people are looking for in this investigation. that doesn't mean that's all mueller is doing. it's clearly not. he's been interviewing people at the white house relating to the obstruction issue, a whole host of areas. but it's why it's so important, we're just going to have to wait and see what the precise indictments are. >> juliette, i'm wondering -- >> i think that's right -- >> i want you to respond. would he be doing it in this fashion if it was something that was no...

Lot of the activity that we know about is really unrelated to anything to do with the core allegations involving trump and russia. for instance, politico just moved a report earlier today that the realtor who sold manafort his condo in alexandria in 2015 was before the grand jury recently. so, you know, that would seem to be far afield from any of the core issues that people are looking for in this investigation. that doesn't mean that's all mueller is doing. it's clearly not. he's been interviewing people at the white house relating to the obstruction issue, a whole host of areas. but it's wh...

Fire rosenstein, and both those things are things he should not do. >> remember, talk about obstruction of justice. talk about satellites. the obstruction issue is pretty much a tangential issue to the counter intelligence probe where this all began. it may in fact be the president is making his bed of tweets and will eventually lie in them for a criminal obstruction charge. he may. but the realistic approach for the fbi and doj right now is this has begun as a counter intelligence probe. whatever the president is doing to try to deflect away from that or in order to figure out whether or not ...