mccabe described vailed threats against james comey. adam schiff asked mccabe, if the director didn t lift the cloud of the russian investigation, that the president would take action against you? mccabe replied, that is correct. that was my concern. as i understand it, that was director comey s concern as well. we ll bring in msnbc legal analyst danny sovalis. good morning to you. can you see a case for obstruction of justice here? it depends on who you are asking about. i mean, when you look at the democrats report, you could say that the charge of obstruction really is against the majority republicans who investigated because they essentially slow-walked through the investigation. but if you look at the potential indictment for obstruction of justice against the president contained in the report only, the democrats appear to say that andrew mccabe provides a lot of
baker, fbi jem counsgeneral cou on a lot of these calls and listening in. during another exchange, here s what schiff asked, quote, if the director didn t lift the cloud of the russia investigation that the president would take action against you? mccabe replied, that s correct. that was my concern and as i understand it, that was director comey s concern as well. but again, to your point the more you get from mccabe, despite the fact that he has been found to lie under oath, is it the kind of thing like just collectively you have mccabe, the summarization of everything he s saying, then perhaps corroboration from james comey. can that allow this to move it forward? i just don t think it will. i think it is a distraction. i think the central focus of the case will be the obstruction with comey. i think because there is this battle between trump and mccabe and the department of justice has said mccabe lied to them several times, under oath and not under oath, i just think it