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Crime in and of itself. and some of the allegations that are possibly being investigated may be a threat to national security, not just a violation of title 18 federal criminal law. they could be endangering our national security. >> would firing the fbi director or encouraging your boss, the president, to fire the fbi director potentially be that kind of obstruction? >> it certainly is. >> david from, you had a comment. >> i dread spending the next 12 months with various law professors whether this meets the standard for obstruction of justice. it may or may not in the prosecutable sense, but...

What may be the very wrong thing. the things that may have happened here may be extremely serious and not criminal. it's not a crime to be financially beholden to the russians. it's not a crime to tell them things. it's not a crime to coordinate with them in your election effort if you aren't involved in the hack. those things aren't crime. they are loyalty issues. they're reliability issues. they're security issues. and again, this goes back to being bizarre. normally an administration, if the fbi knocks on your door and says we think one of your colleagues got a little too close to an unfrie...

Was in the room when something went on that shouldn't have. >> at the risk of saying something elementary i think it is important to recapitulate something. when we talk about criminal and noncriminal, in it's bad it's bad, but if it's noncriminal it is okay. it is not a crime for the president or his family to owe hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign interests. it's not a crime for a private citizen or somebody in a transition to meet with representatives of an adversary state and tell them what he knows. it's not criminal even -- the hacking is criminal, but if you're away from the hac...

Powers of his office, 54% say yes. a fox news poll, typically one would think more favorable to donald trump. what do you think is the real reason president trump fired director comey. 60% say because his investigations are harming the president. only 29% say because these investigations were harming the fbi. one more, the fox news poll. do you think the fbi director should have been fired at all. 53 to 34 people say no. when the confidence is being lost in the presidency itself, we are sort of wandering into that nixon territory now. >> we absolutely are. and i think that david was right on m...

And they're not always intended to bring about a prosecution because a mole or a disloyal person is not necessarily a criminal. they're just someone who should be separated from political power because they are disloyal to the united states and compromised by foreign assets. so i want people to think, remember, this is a very legalistic country. but we're not in two categories, crime, good. we're in a world of three categories. criminal, proper and improper. the improper, no one may go to jail for it, but you'll have real questions about whether people in that category should be in your govern...