lies and stories about president trump. nice to know some people still have guts. how does this amount to witness tampering? this is the president of the united states that sits atop the executive branch of government and the justice department. making a comment about how a witness should conduct himself in a federal probe into russian interference in the 2016 election. how is that not witness tampering? it really looks like witness tampering. you know, the difficult question when you bring these cases as a prosecutor is always how are you going to prove the intent of the person who engaged in h the conduct that looks a lot like witness tampering? you have to show that they had a corrupt motivmotive, that they actually intended to encourage that witness to lie, or somehow make that witness unavailable for prosecutors. and so that s the difficulty. here you got the president making tweets that are public record that are official statements of this presidency, and it s also a little b
he s a lawyer. right. he was actually one of the republican lawyers who in the late 9s late 90s was doing a lot of work against president clinton, very much of a partisan. his criticisms are coming at it from that perspective. he s not criticizing regularly the president s sort of morality and behavior. it has much more to do with the law. so we ve got someone who s expert in that. joyce vance, what george conway tweeted, he named two he named two statutes. the u.s. statutes for witness tampering and obstruction of justice. this is what got this feud rolling with eric trump and george conway. can you answer the question that he sort of proffers that the president by tweeting out retweeting roger stone, saying, i will never testify against trump. this statement was reechcently e by roger stone saying he won t be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up
we know the answer to yet. it was completely proper for the trump transition team it be trying to conduct foreign policy on behalf of the united states while barack obama was still president. phil rucker, i want to ask you about some questions around the obstruction side of the mueller probe, and about a house divided. the house of kellyanne and george conway. the president s son last night tweeted something, my jaw doesn t drop very often on twitter but eric trump, the president s son, tweeted this last night. of all the ugliness in politics, the disrespect george conway shows toward his wife, her career, place of work, everything she worked so hard to achieve, might top them on. kellyanne is a great person and frankly his actions are horrible. then i read that and i have insomnia, this might explain this. i went and looked at george conway s twitter feed and he retweeted every person, every person i saw, that went on to attack donald trump for his infidelities, donald trump for a
this is where the crime is. ken dilanian, where do you think the mueller probe places all of these lies about rush that do you think they re at the center of trying to suss out whether or not there was a conspiracy or do you think they re viewed in isolation as separate obstruction and false statement charges? no, i think as joyce said, any reasonable prosecutor would view this pattern of conduct as evidence of a conspiracy. the question is, what other evidence backs that up? in terms of this document that s going to be filed today, this is a document that s designed to eninstruen instru instruct the judge about what kind of sentence mike flynn should get. it stands to reason to me it has to at least describe the nature of his lies, about his conversations with the russian ambassador including the context. including who instructed him, if anyone, wto do that, who he discussed it with. it may hold up to scrutiny donald trump s story. his lawyer said donald trump didn t answer questi
extraordinarily interesting when we get that sentencing memo on manafort. we will see whether mueller tells this story. i think this is going to be a very, very consequential week for the russian investigation. is this the best and brightest, right? the best and brightest. yeah, i totally agree. it s wild. like this is what we re talking about. we just talked about paul manafort, who by the way worked for donald trump for free, right? for free. and look where we are now. and with this roger stone story, it s not surprising p roger stone said himself he s going to be indicted. robert mueller spent so much time interviewing everybody around him trying to get to him, and he has been probably the most exposed person out of all of this, but now with the pleading the fifth, he does feel emboldened because donald trump has been tampering. the message was received. right. and so donald trump has put that signal out and he s been doing