Page 13 - Obstructive Conduct News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Direct frord the president of the united states to ask the attorney general to redirect the investigation. it's one of the most powerful examples of what mueller called obstructive conduct in the report but, remember, mueller never accused trump of obstruction of justice. he has an opportunity to tease this out, as steph said in public television. here is one of trump's loyal disciples. is he going to be feisty absolutely he's got fbi 302s with his previous interviews and testimony. >> what's a 302. >> that's an fbi note of an interview that he would have given as part of the mueller investiga...

Comey's rationale as i just laid out there. this is their response. even when these employees believe that their most strongly held personal convictions might be served by an unauthorized disclosure, the fbi depends on them not to disclose sensitive information. it says were current or fbi employees to follow the former director's example in disclose sensitive information in service of their own strongly held personal convictions, the fbi would be unable to dispatch its law enforcement duties properly. what do you make of that about comey's justification? >> well, there are two lenses through ...

This is their response. even when these employees believe that their most strongly-held personal convictions might be served by an unauthorized disclosure, the fbi depends on them not to disclose personal information. former director comey failed to live up to his responsibility. were current or former fbi employees to follow the former director's example and disclose sensitive information in service of their own strongly-held personal convictions, the fbi would be unable to dispatch its law enforcement duties personally. what do you make of what the i.g. is saying there about comey's justific...

In the mueller report, it is theoretically possible that a prosecutor could look at that and determine there was a prosecutable case. >> is there a statute of limitations on those possible crimes? >> so, i think that there is and it would be something that the u.s. attorney, the conduct, the obstructive conduct took place in d.c. so a u.s. attorney here in the district of columbia, which is part of the justice department, the u.s. attorney reports to the attorney general so you would have to have an analysis as to whether or not the conduct would toll at some point. i think there is something ...

Go away and be frog walked into jail is really fantasy. even if charges could have been brought. there's a real -- and let's say he actually was tried and he was even convicted, i mean i think something would be litigated, it would take a really long time. let's say we got all the way to that point and that happened, i think a future president would pardon him. one of the historical reasons of pardon authority is to be able to heal the country. we saw that in the nixon example where president ford pardoned him. it heals the country and brings it together. to the extent political opponents have...