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You have a obstruction problem, you have a contempt of congress problem, you need to come clean, and now they have the opportunity to do d that. >> okay, problem problem problem. at the same time jeremy we keep hearing about all of the daming information that could hurt the president, but not many republicans are moving away from him. we saw dozens of them answer the president.g fo n they were in a really uncomfortable position that was unethical and wrong. the republican party under president trump has only been

Indictment of hillary clinton. as wrong as the judgment was of jim comey, as critical as many of us have been of his decision to exonerate her, that judgment is not permanent and can be reversed. and there is no recommendation that it be done. >> dana: so then if you are charged as a former fbi director, jim comey, with insubordination. and he has said well, i welcome the property. i think it's done a very good job. reasonable people can disagree. he just want to blow this off. >> he what about what congressman ratcliff. he said if the mueller investigation returned some sort of conclusion tha...

Republicans who said they won't confirm anyone else. could that first thing be an obstruction problem? >> yes, the legal term is obstruction of justice. the president is trying to get sessions to unrecuse himself. first of all, is that a word? unrecuse. second of all, the reason that he wants sessions to take over the russian investigation is because sessions has taken the loyalty pledge, and that's the kind of person who trump thinks should be supervising a criminal investigation of him. so we talk about norms. norms don't work for this president. norms suggest that you shouldn't call for per...

And questioning about witness tampering and the type of things that are appropriate or not to say to a witness when there is an open inquiry. that's really an issue for the special counsel. to me that's the biggest headline and the rest of it does sound like pretty standard legal argumentation, which can be strong because you start to make everything a debate and everything is a reputed memo or it looks weak because it looks like petty fogging or parsimonious. some of it is normal lawyering. >> i would say a full six hours before we normally see him. chris hayes has joined us here in our studi...

Familiar idea of invoking hope rather than setting out an agenda. >> we have this fiscal cliff that's coming up which is going -- which is going to force things in a certain way. i want to talk about how -- what the dynamics on that might look like in terms of this persistent obstruction problem right after we take this break. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! put it on my spark card! [ high-pitched ] nice doin' busine...