Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171205:03:33:00
>> at this stage, they were duped and they were suckers and took all these meetings. the obstruction case would -- is separate from that. in other words, once they realize that, uh-oh, i got duped, if they keep lying to investigators, they're in trouble for separate reasons. that's why when robert and the previous panel was saying maybe politics was motivating this, right, they were just nervous about admitting it, it still does not justify an obstruction case or anything else. and we're giving them the benefit of the doubt that they didn't know what they were doing. as you know, i've been on ...