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Requisite intent. of those things, intent is usually the most difficult to prove. you might have bare bones elements. but you might not have a prosecutable case. don't know yet, rachel. don't know. but it's in really good hands. >> well, to that point, i mean, tonight -- we woke up this morning to "the washington post" publishing what it believed was an omnibus list of contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials or agents, 30 different contacts. by this afternoon we have news from "the atlantic" magazine of further contacts between donald trump jr. and wikileaks, which has been n...

Usually the most difficult to prove. you might have bare bones elements. but you might not have a prosecutable case. don't know yet, rachel. don't know. but it's in really good hands. >> well, to that point, i mean, tonight -- we woke up this morning to "the washington post" publishing a list of what it believed was the omnibus list of contacts between the trump campaign and russian officials or agents, 30 different contacts. by this afternoon we had news from "the atlantic" magazine of further undisclosed contacts between donald trump jr. and wick laek wikileaks, which has been named as essen...

Firing of james comey was the obstruction of justice? >> it's a possibility. there's a whole bunch of other things we need to know. i presume bob mueller knows them or will find them out. from where i stand, he might have an obstruction case. but let me be clear about something. the mere fact that you have the elements of a crime, that you've met the elements of a statute, doesn't necessarily mean that you have a prosecutable case. federal prosecutors are trained that you also have to have a reasonable probability of conviction. so there are times when we have the elements, and it looks like y...

>> well, it's a possibility. there's a whole bunch of other things we need to know. i presume bob mueller knows them or will find them out. from where i stand, he might have an obstruction case. but let me be clear about something. the mere fact that you have the elements of a crime, that you've met the elements of a statute, doesn't necessarily mean that you have a prosecutable case. federal prosecutors are trained that you also have to have a reasonable probability of conviction. so there are times when we have the elements, and it looks like you might here, but do we have a prosecutable cas...

Summarized the prosecution for hillary and then announced that he wouldn't ask for any charges. and what was he doing with the authority to do that anyway, handed over by loretta lynch, who sat on the plane with the bill clinton. >> but where is the criminality in that? what would be a potential crime? it's in his discretion, whether or not he thought there was a prosecutable case that could be won, and he said no. where's the crime? >> this -- i'm not going to asse assert obstruction of justice, but i've heard it asserted on the russian side of this. and if you look at these two cases in a pa...