fact they have known for a long time is a troubling fact because when you try to have to establish obstruction of justice you have to show that the person acted with a corrupt intent. and if president trump knew and learned even just before he asked jim comey to stand down on the flynn investigation i think there could be some powerful evidence of the corrupt intent that's necessary. >> according to murray waa 16789's reporting this is very clear. people familiar with the matter have told me that both priebus and mcgahn have confirmed in separate interviews with the special counsel that they had told trump that flynn was under investigation by the fbi before he met with comey. 24 dismantd lz the key element in the trump lawyers' letter to the prosecutor about why donald trump con have committed obstruction of justice in the flynn matter sxwlp but the trump team's theory from the beginning did not make a lot of sense. their position is trump knew there was no longer an investigation, and then he walks into a meeting and says hey, by the way, i hope you can see fit to let go, parentheses, an investigation that's not going