moscow has sought for a long time, which is place strains in the western alliance. this could be the fishiest looking set of coincidences ever, but i think robert mueller is going to sort that out. and renato gets the question. at what point does all of this fishiness become attempted obstruction? is it the fiing of the fbi director or something else? you have prosecuted these cases. have you seen so far what looks like obstruction of justice or just in the impeachment sense? well, those are two separate questions. but certainly what would have to be proven in a criminal sense would be a corrupt intent. in other words, did the president act corruptly in the actions that he took? and that would require a look at all the facts and circumstances of the case, which of course we don t know. but some of those facts might be, for example, asking the ag and the vice president to leave the room when he spoke to allegedly spoke to mr. comey, et cetera.
like right now with the challenges and trying to contain president trump? the challenges from the outside seem to be just overwhelming. the president has certainly behaved in ways that can fairly be characterized as inappropriate. he has breached protocols. he shouldn t be behaving the way he has toward the intelligence community, law enforcement or the military. that said, i don t think we have a pry ma fascia clear kacase of obstruction of justice. the president has to act corruptly to have that. it is not clear he is acting corruptly. there is a pretty powerful suggestion here that not only the president but some of his senior staff are acting in some
defined. the statute that i was talking about, session title 18 section 2,000, section 15203 an 1512, the defendant has to act corruptly. that is usually left up to the jury to decide, corruptly. but i suppose donald trump could say i was just acting out of humanitarian reasons. frankly, it is very difficult to come up with a noncorrupt reason to shut down an investigation of your own campaign. lots of questions for the white house. even if you feel sorry for mike flynn, you know, the idea that you were doing this simply as a humanitarian gesture, i think that would be tough to persuade. but gloria you re right, the issue of motive is certainly a relevant one for this question. sorry, wolf. i interrupted. one of those memos written by comey, he is a good guy referring to flynn, i hope can