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With robert mueller. first, just reminding people what the law is that he broke. this is a description of the law around obstruction, why it's a crime to obstruct in any investigation. the attempt to remove this special counsel, that would be these efforts, these first two flash points where he tried to get his white house counsel to fire mueller, would qualify as an obstructive act, it would naturally obstruct the investigation and any grand jury proceedings that might flow from the inquiry. a fact-finder would need to consider whether the act had the potential to delay further action in the ...

Of obstruction the special counsel laid out. there were 10 separate instances, trying to get jeff sessions to pull back the investigation, trying to fire robert mueller, trying to get the white house counsel to recant his testimony and change his testimony to make it lineup with what the president said. those are obstructive act, nothing stops congress from looking into that in the context of impeachment just like they did with bill clinton. >> i keep the 400 pages with me on my desk all the time. there's a lot. people haven't read this it is worth reading and going through if you care about t...

Justice, mcgahn trying to fire mueller, sessions trying to capitate the investigations and firing comey and saying to him, what facts did you find as to those issues when you were doing this investigation. have them say outloud, this is what we found. and then they can argue after the fact, ah-ha, you see, this is obstruction. >> how much of this are we going to see from him just reading the report. >> he may read the report or he may have it memorized at this point where he can say volume 2, section one on this question. we write, and he says -- >> you can read the summaries, right in. >> yea...

He intended to resign. priebus recalled that mcgahn said the president had asked him to do crazy bleep which rhymes with hit. whenever i say rhymes with, i end up saying the bad word. mcgahn did not tell him the specifics of the president's request because mcgahn was trying to protect priebus from what he did not know. i think the headline under this section is donald trump's attempts to fire special counsel robert mueller. certainly what was investigated as an obstructive act was he intends to fire special counsel mueller. >> yes. this really was one of the more -- i found one of the more exc...

And said he resigned, telling them the president asked him to do crazy -- bleep. he thought mcgahn did not tell him the specifics of the president's request because mcgahn was trying to protect reince priebus from what he did not know. consistent with what jonathan is saying but i think the headline under the section is donald trump's attempts to fire special counsel robert mueller what was investigated as an obstructive act was the attempts to fire robert mueller. >> yes, this was one of the more interesting and exciting portions got me back to being a prosecutor. one of the things we start t...