american sailors recording the latest potentially deadly provocation by the russian military. the incident taking place in international waters in the philippine sea, just south of the japanese island of okinawa. the russian action came as the u.s. cruiser was trying to land a helicopter on its deck, giving it even less maneuverability than usual. you have to be on a set course and a set speed to the winds across the deck are safe for the helicopter to land. reporter: boxed in, the captain performs an emergency maneuver called an all engines back full. you re basically throwing that ship into reverse while it s moving forward at 15 to 18 miles an hour, would be my guess. it s 10,000 tons of metal moving through the water. it s not going to stop quickly. and as the ship reacts to that order, as the propellers shift direction, the whole ship is going to shudder. while the russians blame the u.s. for the incident, this photo from above contradicts that, according to navy officials
made available on the doj website was the explanation on obstruction is really confusing, from doj officials i don t understand it, doesn t make any sense, he basically punted. robert mueller did nothing of the sort. he did not punt. he found he could not say at the end of 22 months that trump had not committed crimes but he was hemmed in, restrained, boxed in, whatever word you want to use by doj policy that said you couldn t indict a sitting president. that s pretty clear. it s pretty thinly sliced and nuanced here. mueller starts by saying at least from my point of view analytically the first step is, if i could have told you the president didn t commit a crime, i would, and i m not telling you that. that s the starting point. then he says, doj policy, which is the law and that s where prosecutors like to start, understanding the law that they re looking at, says we really can t make a decision one way or the other here about whether the president committed a crime. we can inves
everyone s like make it stop. yeah. make it stop! yes. reopen the government, figure out a way to deal with the immigration issue and, you know, the problem is you have both sides that are boxed in. the president boxed in, of course, first, because he is insistent upon this wall and he s not going to give on it and the democrats are saying we re not going to give you the wall. they believe they ve already given him money for the wall. he turned down another offer in which they had given him more money for the wall and so you do have two sides here that are boxed in and people are suffering and it seems ridiculous that in the middle of all of this, the president is responding to pelosi essentially saying, you know, i m not going to let you take your trip to afghanistan, which is i m sure is a pleasure trip, an excursion. come on. right, right.
a long time. we started together at the department of justice. normally this dude is cool as a cucumber. he s not emotional. he s rational and to see him go in at the congressional hearing as he did yesterday tells us a couple of things. he s mad as hell and he s not taking it anymore. that s bad news for president trump. he s kind of boxed in, the president is. if he fires rosenstein then he is providing more evidence of obstruction of justice. if leaves him in, then trump has someone who is supervising the investigation of trump who is very angry at him and knows has experience first hand trump s ways of trying to derail investigations. rosenstein justifiably feels used. i have to say in the public appearance he s made he s shown a very calm demeanor. he s even joked around a lot in the times he s fielded
the kinda tolerance policy? i m not so confident that s going to happen. what s the saving grace for all of those involved, including the president, if he s feeling boxed in, and as you mentioned throwing the grenade to congress. are we likely to see democrats and others go with a comprehensive immigration reform bill? if not what is the short-term fix to this? the answer to the first question is overwhelming no. there are people more qualified than me to explain why that s based on how dysfunctional this congress is, why that s just about impossible. but will they attach some provision to the defense bill that in a narrow way solves this issue or at least creates provisions that keep, that children with their parents while they re going through the justice system? that s possible. but again, it s congress. this is not a group known for solving problems. in my head while were you talking i was thinking of like