the body cam of one of the officers who responded to the call. we re going to warn you, the video, and we re only going to show you a little teeny bit of it is really hard to watch. it s really upsetting. it shows police approaching pelosi s home. here s the moment the door opens to reveal paul pelosi and the intruder, david depape, with both men holding on to the hammer. guys, how are you doing? how are you? what s going on, man? hi. drop the hammer. nope. hey, hey, hey. what is going on right now? paul pelosi of course is still recovering from the attack that took place that day right there. according to former speaker nancy pelosi, take a look at what she had to say about this a couple of hours ago. with a grateful heart on behalf of my family, we continue to thank people for all of their prayers that they continue to send us, asking about the progress my husband is making, and he is making progress, but it will take more time. we re going to take a c
in dealing with political violence in america, how you deal with the two halves of that? yeah, so look, it is trump s fault in a sense. i don t mean in a criminal law sense, but there s a direct line as frank says from this crazy rhetoric to the hammer blow on an 82-year-old skull that we saw, and this is really, i mean, that s just despicable the things you heard from those folks, and it s what? i guess it s because it s nancy pelosi, hardy har har, it is really, you know, a bottom dwellers more than almost anything else. there are certain people who will say in defense, oh, it really wasn t going to happen, you hear the hammer going down on his skull after he tries, as frank says, kind of cunningly to get out of the situation that this would be a laughing matter for three political officials, not rag tag terrorists, but, you
we had the bob mueller report saying i m not going to conclude on it. that s where we re stuck. we re not stuck on collusion. the report i didn t say that. i said obstruction of justice and defying subpoenas, which is why they would want to go to impeachment. chris? impeachment is not about the enforcement of the criminal code. you don t need to have underlying crime. and you don t need an underlying crime. what are you covering up? if you want to talk about it in the legal sense and the criminal law sense, you don t need to convict somebody of an underlying crime in order to charge them with obstruction or otherwise you d never have an obstruction charge. if somebody obstructed justice, you couldn t charge them with obstruction of justice. the question here is whether or not the congress is going to impeach the president for the only second or third time in american history. whether that is going to happen. that doesn t have anything to do with crimes.
attorney general and only the attorney general has that power. second, in respect of obstruction of justice, there s an open question about whether the president can be charged with obstruction of justice for doing something he has a constitutional right to do. if that s the question of firing comey, it s not clear. the office of legal counsel also has said that a sitting president cannot be indicted. so i m not sure what indictment there is that could possibly be here. but in the abstract, if you re looking at this as more an abuse of office, articles of impeachment sort of sense, then yes, obstruction of justice is a mosaic of activity that you take the constituent parts of and you put together and you see whether that pattern constitutes an effort to interfere with an ongoing investigation or the administration of justice, depending on which statute you re inquiring under in a criminal law sense or an abuse of office sense, whether it together rises to a high crime and misdemeanor.
mosaic of activity that you take the constituent parts of and you put together and you see whether that pattern constitutes an effort to interfere with an ongoing investigation or the administration of justice, depending on which statute you re inquiring under in a criminal law sense or an abuse of office sense, whether it together rises to a high crime and misdemeanor. jim, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was on fox news today. here is what he said about the mueller protection bill. i don t think he should fire mueller and i don t think he s going to. so this is a piece of legislation that s not necessary in my judgment. none of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. but i m the one who decides what we take to the floor. that s my responsibility as the majority leader. we will not be having this on the floor of the senate. would you be shocked if he did fire him? yes. i don t think he should and i don t think he will. so he says legislation t