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Been violated. and the u.s. attorney's manual, for example, says that a pending proceeding for purposes of the obstruction statute can't be an fbi investigation. so, mueller has been proceeding or people who are behind the obstruction narrative have been proceeding along the assumption that what was obstructed here were fbi investigations, whether it's the criminal investigation of flynn or the counter intelligence investigation of russia's interference in the election. and for purposes of the criminal law, the problem with that is that it probably can't be the basis for an obstruction charge....

Intention which is so critical to the obstruction statute, just look at, look at normal oversight versus what he's doing. this is an oversight. i spent 25 years in the fbi. i served as assistant director. during my time as assistant director i lost count of the number of times i went to the hill, i briefed house and senate intelligence committees, judiciary, homeland security committees, everybody in the hoover building on pennsylvania avenue understands that congress represents the people and they oversee the fbi. but this isn't oversight. just as paul ryan is claiming it's oversight. this is...

Than follow the rules set forth in a lawyer in that post. >> but as far as the president's legal jeopardy, given that don mcgahn thank goodness stopped him from making any other move to fire mueller and up to this point, does that help the president himself in terms of what he could be face manage the mueller investigation some. >> not really. there are two standards that he is going to be judged under. one is the criminal law standard, the federal criminal code, and there's a section in there for obstruction and about 12 obstruction statute, but the one that he is confronts is 18 usc 1503 whi...

Fbi. and that's a question that the white house has been very careful not to answer. just earlier this month when the president posted a tweet saying i had to fire flynn because he lied to the fbi, they went to extraordinary lengths to walk that back and even attribute it to his lawyers having formulated that tweet. it is not a question that goes to the issue of collusion. but it is a question that is central to the question of obstruction. >> chuck, how do you see this legally, that knowledge, if it's proven out what "foreign affairs" magazine brought out, that the president was told by mcgah...

He participated in the enron investigation. every criminal trial in that case ended in a conviction was reversed either entirely or in part by appeal. and in large measure, with the arthur anderson conviction that resulted in destruction of an accounting firm, reversed by the supreme court because he had pushed the obstruction statute 24. he was responsible for that. and he is, guess what? investing in case it is alleged to involve obstruction. i do not know that i would be lying his judgment and how far do you go with the obstruction case? >> that is interesting people do not understand that ...