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With my friend nicolle wallace. ♪ ♪ hi, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york. this is what obstruction of justice looks like, two pieces of evidence that a federal judge has ordered to be made public. it could impact public opinion about the obstruction of justice investigation into donald trump. that investigation looked into trump's efforts to thwart the russia probe and ended with special counsel robert mueller saying he could not exonerate the president. now a federal judge has ordered the public release of some of the evidence that robert mueller contemplated when he wrote that he could...

Call between the president's lawyer, john dowd, and flynn's lawyer. "the washington post" writes it up like this. quote, a federal judge on thursday ordered that prosecutors make public a transcript of a phone call that former national security adviser michael flynn tried hard to hide with a lie, his conversation with a russian ambassador in late 2016. u.s. district judge emmet g. sullivan in washington ordered the government also to provide a public transcript of a november 2017 voicemail involving flynn. in that sensitive call, president trump's attorney left a message for flynn's attorney r...

Idea for congress actually to put on a panel of people so we could hear views from the team as to how these decisions were made. but it is really difficulty think to explain to people who have not been prosecutors inside of doj, to explain how carefully we make these decisions, how hesitant we are to go too far, how strongly we try to protect legal norms. and in the era of trump where the white house is blowing away all of the legal norms that it can push through as quickly as it can, that seems antiquated and outdated, but it is part of the respect for the rule of law and this care we take wi...

"the president's lawyer" are heard -- and we have a transcript. i'm going to read it. but it makes the assessments given by people like jim comey that the trump team reminded him of a mob family, if you hear it but don't see it or you hear it characterized but can't decide for yourself if these people sound more like "the sopranos" you have to take a he said/she said, but let's let people decide. this is a partial transcript of the voicemail that the judge ordered released, the whole transcript by may 31st. here is the part in the mueller report. this is john dowd. if i could do a john dowd vo...

Assessments given by people like jim comey that the trump team reminded him of a mob family. if you hear it but don't see it or you hear it characterized but can't decide for yourself if these people sound like a scene out of the "sopranos" you have to let people decide. here's what john dowd said to michael flynn's lawyer, a partial transcript of the voice mail that the judge ordered released, the whole transcript by may 31st. if i could do a john dowd voice i would, but i'll spare everybody on a friday. he calls flynn's lawyer and he says, it wouldn't surprise me if you'd gone on to make a d...