obstructing the investigation as opposed to removing a guy who was doing a bad job on the recommendation in part of rosenstein, but you see it as obstructing the investigation, then you did say it s obstruction. a lot to talk about there. let s do that. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times back with us tonight. also back with us tonight, jill wine-banks, attorney and former assistant watergate special counsel. jill, watching that kind of slack-jawed, if they regard as a victory that they ve got mueller to limit to two categories the questions for them, collusion and obstruction, that s like saying you got a tornado to agree to death and destruction only. what does that mean? well, i think you were right when you said in the beginning that this has all come down to a lot of p.r. and you have an unanswered accusations from giuliani that mueller cannot and must not
who has escaped criminal indictment. daniel pantaleo. mr. pantaleo was sued earlier this year. the city had to settle a civil suit, a civil rights case for officer pantaleo doing a strip search in public. there are many calls tonight for the officer in question to be fired. the nypd of course has an internal investigation ha has been ongoing for several months. there have been no conclusions. as a protester shouting down bratton and wanting to see police commissioner bratton fired over what they see is a continuation of policies they thought they had dislodged. joining me now, jonathan moore, he is the attorney for the garner family. thank you for being here. my pleasure. were you surprised by the grand jury decision yesterday, or did you have some feeling as this was going on that we weren t getting that this was going to happen? well, i was actually stunned by the decision. although i wasn t surprised. what i mean by that is if you look at the evidence, the evidence is overwhel
the investigation. the question of loyalty is one of the issues the special counsel is looking at in terms of obstruction of justice. why was the president so obsessed with having someone loyal to him run the investigation? why did he ask jim comey for his loyalty? was it simply loyalty because around him who were loyal to him, or was there a reason for this, and why has the president continued to go after sessions publicly? why has he tried to get him to resi resign? what was behind that? was he trying to install someone more loyal to him atop the justice department? those are the questions? michael, we observe around here from time to time as our phones get more modern, we sound more and more like ed murrow from london as the connections get more terrible. if you can move to a window or an open space for this next answer, i d appreciate it. and it hearkens back to your interview with trump a couple days after christmas where he said, in effect, if not a direct
since the day hope hicks said farewell to her unofficial replacement, president trump himself. the president also has unofficially performed the roles of many other senior staffers in recent months, leaving the people holding those jobs to execute on his instincts and ideas, and that s exactly how trump likes his west wing. the post goes on to report, quote, though trump continues to rage about special counsel robert s. mueller s investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the president seems satisfied for now at least with his new legal team, which includes giuliani and emmett t. flood. rudy giuliani has of course been a constant fixture on television and in print about this investigation since he was brought on last month. this sunday was no different. giuliani spoke openly about his public opinion battle while on cnn. to a large extent, remember, dana, we re defending here it is for public opinion because eventually the decision here is
search in public. there are many calls tonight for the officer in question to be fired. the nypd of course has an internal investigation ha has been ongoing for several months. there have been no conclusions. as a protester shouting down bratton and wanting to see police commissioner bratton fired over what they see is a continuation of policies they thought they had dislodged. joining me now, jonathan moore, he is the attorney for the garner family. thank you for being here. my pleasure. were you surprised by the grand jury decision yesterday, or did you have some feeling as this was going on that we weren t getting that this was going to happen? well, i was actually stunned by the decision. although i wasn t surprised. what i mean by that is if you look at the evidence, the evidence is overwhelming that something wrong happened here. that these officers, not just one but several officers were engaged in misconduct. it wasn t surprising to me because it s been the result in a lo