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Buckets. there's also the obstruction question, which is, you know, we've seen sort of all of the other aspects of mueller's investigation come out in court charges at some point. the gru, the internet research agency, paul manafort, michael flynn, other cases. but we haven't seen sort of this core question, the original sin that begat the mueller investigation in the first place, which was the firing of jim comey and sort of the actions that grew out of that. which again focus on the president, wouldn't have necessarily led to criminal charges understand the justice department guidelines, but...

Point were the subject of conversation about pardons. we went back and looked at robert mueller's questions, we understand donald trump didn't answer the obstruction question but robert mueller wanted to know about pardons for over a year. >> cohen was also in the president's mind unfairly targeted and treated until he started talking. what's the difference here is p paul manafort never did. to this day the reporting out of the special counsel's office is he has not provided much additional information. and quite frankly, the analysis was from the beginning that there wouldn't be any other exp...

Of that investigation and save for the belief doj was operating under the guiding principle that you can't indict a sitting president, he wasn't sending a target letter but one of the reasons they didn't push for answers to the obstruction question was that he was essentially and functionally a target of that probe. >> you know, that's right. and one of the policies doj uses has regards target is that they are not often subpoenaed to grand jury. the reason is if they were subpoenaed, they would simply assert their fifth amendment right and decline to answer questions, and the policy says you s...

There is totally unfair and one possibility that he's talking about some of the financial issues that ken just rattled off and that's certainly a possibility. another possibility is and i think given the fact that it is a reach out from somebody close to the president or the president himself in the period of his presidency sort of last summer, you have to wonder if there is an obstruction component or you know a reach out to him and the period in which he's, you know, having these extraordinary legal troubles that was his own indictment and cooperation agreement reaching out to somebody in th...

Because of mueller, the president's national security adviser has pled guilty to a felony involving the russians, the president's campaign manager pled guilty, manafort, and now that plea is being unraveled because of the same stuff, cooperation with the russians and so on. it also demonstrates the importance of that election back in november because now finally congress is going to fulfill its madisonian responsibilities and start to ask these questions and not just have it be within the shrouded law enforcement community run by bob mueller. >> cynthia, can you believe this is the conversatio...