you, including the media, that robert mueller was conflicted. robert mueller had a total interest. i never said that. that right there, the interview portion released today by abc news, that is the president of the united states accusing his former white house counsel of a crime. he s accusing don mcgahn of lying under oath, but at the same time the president is blocking don mcgahn from testifying to congress about what mcgahn told mueller. he s telling mcgahn, you ve got to keep quiet while i tell everyone you re a liar, purgerer, how do you not respond to this? here s the thing that s new to our era, to this era of governance. sometimes the president says something out loud that endorses or encourages behavior that is so wildly unethnical or even blatantly legal, someone
robert mueller had a total interest. i never said that. that right there, the interview portion released today by abc news, that is the president of the united states accusing his former white house counsel of a crime. he s accusing don mcgahn of lying under oath, but at the same time the president is blocking don mcgahn from testifying to congress about what mcgahn told mueller. he s telling mcgahn, you ve got to keep quiet while i tell everyone you re a liar, purg purgerer, how do you not respond to this? here s the thing that s new to our era, sometimes the president says something out loud that endorses or encourages behavior that is so wildly unethnical or
you, including the media, that robert mueller was conflicted. robert mueller had a total interest. he has to go. i never said that. that right there, the interview portion released today by abc news, that is the president of the united states accusing his former white house counsel of a crime. he s accusing don mcgahn of lying under oath, but at the same time the president is blocking don mcgahn from testifying to congress about what mcgahn told mueller. he s telling mcgahn, you ve got to keep quiet while i tell everyone you re a liar, purjurer, how do you not respond to this? here s the thing that s new to this era, sometimes the president says something out loud that endorses or encourages behavior that is so wildly
intelligence committee. they re expected to announce fairly soon a conclusion to the interview portion of their investigation. the democrats very upset about it. is what they re doing pre mature? well, clearly we need to have an independent sbregs what russia was doing in the united states. what s being done on partisan lines will not have the credibility it needs for recommendations to have weight. we believe they re working in a much closer bipartisan way. it would have been preferred for us to have an independent investigation as we did after 9/11. we need on take steps against future aggression from mr. putin in russia. thanks for joining us.
team has given to president trump s lawyers. here s what they re looking, the possible topics they re looking into. asking comey to drop the investigation into flynn. the reaction to comey s testimony in front of congress. and then outreach to intel leaders about the russia investigation. so, carrie, does that point to you they are more interested in obstruction than other things? it does. based on what you just describe, it does sound like special counsel bob mueller s team is focusing their interview portion with the president on obstruction-related issues. remember, so much discussion in the media we have focused on the firing of fbi director comey. but there are a whole host of activities that the president engaged in. you mentioned, for example, calls that the president is reported to have made to members of the intelligence community, senior leaders. remember, it was reported that he called members of congress to