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The end this is about democrats. i was perusing this new media platform called the twitter yesterday. >> the twitter, yes. >> i came upon this account by someone called@joe nbc. he said i was interested at one point he tweeted jesus, forgive me for ever being a republican. the other one i liked. this is the thing i want to engage you on, this piece written by someone in the national review that goes -- speaks directly to this issue. the quote that you tweeted out, which i think is -- the headline of the piece on the twitter thing it says you can't beat trump without throwing a punch, and then ...

One, committed an obstructive act, two, connected to an official proceeding, three, did so with corrupt intent. those are the elements of obstruction of justice. >> is he on to something there? >> well, he is. he was reciting you know from mueller's own report which gave us about ten instances of varying degrees of possible charges of obstruction of justice. some were stronger. there are different elements as hakeem jeffries just went through and he picked one that was like three for three, right? there are several of those in the report. and it leads to the question, why didn't you indict and...

Going all the way back to the '60s when you served in vietnam. because i have a seat on the intelligence committee i'll have questions later and because of our limited time i will ask to enter this letter into >> without objection. >> i yield to my colleague from california, mr. liu. >> thank you, director mueller, for your long history of service to our country, including your service as a marine, where you earned a bronze star. i'd like to turn to the elements of obstruction of justice as applied to the president's attempts to curtail your investigation. the first element of obstruction of j...

President knew that he should not have directed don mcgahn to fire the special counsel, correct? >> and where do you have that quote? >> page 90, volume two. there's evidence that the president knew he should not have made those calls to mcgahn, closed quote. >> i see that, yes. that's accurate. >> the investigation also found substantial evidence that president trump repeatedly urgeled mcgahn to dispute that he was having the special counsel terminated, correct? >> correct. >> the investigation found substantial evidence that when the president ordered don mcgahn to fire the special counsel a...

Does that mean you have to investigate all of his conduct to ascertain true motive? >> no. >> and when you talk about the president's pattern of conduct that include the ten possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, is that correct? when you talk about the president's pattern of conduct, that would include the ten possible acts of obstruction that you investigated, correct? >> i direct you to the report for how that is characterized. >> thank you. let me go to the screen again. for each of those ten potential instances of obstruction of justice, you analyze three elements of the crim...