delegitimized the investigation. a very important set of charges have been brought against 13 russian individuals and two organizations. i read those indictments carefully. not one word to suggest collusion. they have behaved badly and they should be brought to justice. we have seen no evidence of collusion. joe is talking about obstruction of justice. if you believe all of the tweets about a switch hunt, do you consider that obstruction of justice about this investigation. we did not charge president clinton with obstruction of justice because of an entire army he had. the president was very clever
and shrewd because others did the dirty work. we were constantly attacked. and our integrity was in tact, but president clinton was able to rise above it. what about this example? and what president trump refuses to do is follow the clinton model. i do not consider that obstruction. when you look at what the law of obstruction you can have the moral view of what obstruction is, and you can have the legal view. what constitutes the crime of obstruction of justice but hold on a second. hold on joe. but president trump went on television there is no corrupt motive that has been defined by the supreme court of the united states and in this room i have
council, do you think he would have said he has every right to do that? i hope i would have. article two of our constitution gives the president authority over the executive branch. he could have said i want this investigation to stop. period, full stop. that races an issue of potential obstruction of justice. do you have the same view of nixon firing archibald cox? was that in his power? absolutely and that was not even a basis of the charge in the house of representatives. and i think it is really perilous, joe, i do, to try to use the article 2 power and say you have exercised the authority you have, you sacked jeff sessions, and i think that is an
way. john i mean. when you said joe. i got the name wrong. i love you to death don. you re one of the first people who took the trump campaign seriously when nobody else did in national media. that s why i come on your show and have respect for you. what donald trump said in the press conference was not racist at all. simply said if you can help me solve this problem. nobody said it was racist. saying it s tone deaf and insensitive. that s huh opened the conversation with. i opened with the fact he lied on cummings, had a terrible week. and delineated everything. what i said was, don t ask a 20 year senior journalist, legitimate journalist to set up a freaking meeting with the
president trump capping off first full month in office what is is being billed at working weekend at mar-a-largo and campaign style rally tomorrow. bring in by the way this is one of my favorite segments on the show. don t tell anybody. you guys are out there talking to the people. you have your ear to the ground. joe, president trump in the white house for a month. tumultuous. what are listeners saying so far? seems like three years. being somewhat facetious, but this morning we talked about the fact that he was absolutely wrong about elijah cummings trying to avoid him.