that s what i write about in my book. the dangles pardons, that s what nixon was impeached for. firing the special prosecutor. but nixon succeeded in doing it and trump didn t.in trump did. he fired the special prosecutor. i m sorry, he fired comey. right, he fired comey. he tried to basically end his own presidency and firing mueller but don mcgahn wouldn t let him do it. right. nixon in the end didn t succeed in undermining our whole government.ee neither with this president. there is plenty out there.t. the question is how do you bring the american people along? mueller sets out part of the case and it s critical to bring the american people along, educate them. that s what happened in watergate. let s follow that blueprint.en final thing, adam. our next segment is about some of the legislation sitting on mitch mcconnell s desk. it s true this house has done a tremendous amount in terms of passing a lot of stuff, whethero you agree with the legislation or not. you saw cici
if you will never make a decision on this? because the decision is the judgment. it is not the hearings, not the subpoenas, not the documents. in the end you have the evidence really that the president fired comey, his fbi director, because he wouldn t play ball with them. he tried to fire the special counsel who was basically commissioned to investigate him. trying to get rid of him, we know that from his lawyer, mcgahn. seemed like it was a bank robbery in broad daylight and you try to outsource to mueller and he says can t you see what i see? it is up to you guys to make the judgment. you got to do it. so last night i had a town hall meeting, and i think that probably haft room thought there was half the room thought there was a bank robbery and the other half didn t. so the overall question that you have to ask is what is the best
because the democrats are going to point to that and say we need to find out what comes out of those cases down the road. there s rick gates and michael flynn that are cooperating witnesses of mueller. so whether or not they actually end up saying something different down the road or end up providing more information as these cases play out, that could lead to more indictments. well, for president trump, we mentioned he fired comey. he denied trump tower meeting happened until he couldn t deny it any longer. there s been a long list of things that have been said that have been proven not to be true. do you get the sense that this administration, or that the president aggravated this investigation? that perhaps is spanned out, it got worse for him based on his own actions? and are we at risk at that happening again with the investigations that are still ongoing? i think at this point, since we haven t seen the report, we don t know how much of that what looked like obstruction was
revealed an open investigation into russia s ties to trump allies, an inquiry for which the president said he fired comey. the doj appointed a special counsel to pick up the investigation and clearly defined terms along with any matters that may arise from it, but yesterday president trump said he doesn t, quote, get it. it s interesting that a man gets appointed by a deputy. he writes a report. you know, never figured that one out. a deputy because of the fact that the attorney general didn t have the courage to do it himself, a deputy that s appointed appoints another man to write a report and now i have somebody writing a report that never got a vote? it s called the mueller report. so explain that because my voters don t get it and i don t get it. let it come out. let people see it. that s up to the attorney
look at what the law of obstruction, you can have the moral view of obstruction, and then you can have the legal view, what is, in fact, constitutes the crime of obstruction of justice hold on a second. hold on, joe. president trump went on television there is no corrupt motive that has been defined by the supreme court of the united states and that s where in this room, i have said, don t be so broad minded, so to speak in saying this constitutes obstruction of justice. it doesn t obstruct justice to do what the president has the power to do, which is to fire the head of the fbi. maybe i should have gone to law school. let me speak for everyone in america who didn t go to law school. president trump went on television, even after two days leading up to that interview, he lied about why he fired comey. he directed rod rosenstein to write a phony letter about