Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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tweets are show different levels of consciousness of guilt. and they show, and they re important for the proof of intent. but it s not i don t think it s a separate count. and i say that because i also think there is we re starting out real lawyerly. when i say an element, does it go to part of the obstruction of evidence in the case of intent and goals? i didn t say count. sure. i think it goes to intent and his goals. i think there s plenty of obstruction evidence, and there will be even more obstruction evidence, good ol fashioned bread and butter obstruction evidence and this will be part of the indictment. and part of the evidence that is given to either a jury or in an impeachment trial. but standing alone i don t think it s a count. right. i mean who cares whether it s a count. well, some people do. some people do. let me bring ch. the question is whether this
happened . it s not even the main trial mueller will be handling. there s a separate d.c. trial where the stakes are much higher. this is happening as all of these revelations are coming up during trial. there s certainly something there that he is issuing this order to the department of justice, which has control, oversight over other prosecutors, and certainly strength in the case from obstruction. i want you both to stay with me as promised. i m bringing in richard painer, he is now running as a democrat for the u.s. senate in minnesota. i go to you, sir, on this central question, does this statement account as evidence or an element of potential obstruction by donald trump? well, it s certainly evidence of obstruction of justice. and first, we really have to worry about the mental stability of our president when he is incriminating himself on twitter. this is very, very damaging,
very incriminating tweet. it s part of a long pattern of obstruction of justice. he fired james comey. he has repeatedly tried to pressure jeff sessions to unrecuse. and fire robert mueller. and the prosecutor will find evidence of obstruction inside the white house, i m sure. but, you know, the house and senate judiciary committee should be investigating this. we re pay past the time of 1973 where they were investigating richard nixon. i m shocked there is no investigation for obstruction of justice and abuse of power and other high crimes and misdemeanors. let me ask you, why do you think that tonight we re in a place that is past where we were with nixon regarding presidential obstruction? what supports your view on that? i think we were past that point when he fired james comey. it was clear he fired james comey in order to obstruct the russia investigation, and he admitted to that in front of the russian ambassador in several tv interviews. we should have had hearings in the h