Page 6 - Obstructive Behavior News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Said she would not. she said she would report it to the fbi. if i thought it was legitimate enough to have our law enforcement dedicate their time to it. additionally hicks said she was very surprised to learn there were over 100 contacts between the trump campaign and people connect ted to the russian government but hicks was repeatedly blocked from discussing the president's obstructive behavior. she also did not address michael flynn's resignation, jeff session's recusal, james comey's firing or the president's attempt to remove robert mueller as special counsel himself. i'm joined by cynth...

The discussion in your report that had to do with obstruction, would you consider those factors that point to the president doing obstruction? even if he reads those portions, that's a heck of a lot of obstructive behavior. >> so what other questions do you think mueller needs to answer that aren't necessarily in his report? >> i like to have him respond more to his thinking about why he, you know, to reiterate again what his thinking was about the fairness issue, about the president not having a venue and when he said that there was evidence as far as a conspiracy but not enough to meet a bur...

About the possible obstruction into michael flynn's cooperation with the special counsel, cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez joins me now. this is quite remarkable. it flit in a broader pattern of flynn saying he got a message from the president, hey, wouldn't be so great if you cooperate, not unlike other messages we have heard from other witnesses or even public comments the president has made. how significant is this flynn evidence? >> this flynn evidence, which was already baked into the mueller report, obviously, really just kind of shines a light on what exactly was happening....

Similarly with threats to potentially use inherent contempt power to jail people. i think politically the visual of that is probably not politically good. i think part of the difficulty is that what the white house counsel office is now arguing is that the president cannot be overseen on certain things that are his executive authority, that congress literally does not have the authority to conduct oversight of his exercise of executive power. and this is where the real crux of what they actually are going to end up arguing about, when they get down to the facts of the president's obstructive b...

Counsel office is now arguing is that the president cannot be overseen on certain things that are his executive authority, that congress literally does not have the authority to conduct oversight of his exercise of executive power. and this is where the real crux of what they actually are going to end up arguing about, when they get down to the facts of the president's obstructive behavior, it is whether or not he can actually abuse that executive authority and they're just not getting to that issue yet. >> carrie cordero, john dean, thank you. are iranian threats real or is it business as u...