A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Campaign, the reelection in november, and apparently, wolf, does not want to say anything that could infuriate the president. Perhaps one reason he did not want to answer that question. But no doubt about it, wolf, republicans did not want to embrace these concerns today perhaps because the president is so about the mueller probe. Manu raju on capitol hill. Joining us now, republican congressman chris stewart. Hes a member of the house Intelligence Committee. Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. Good afternoon. The president has told his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, to stop the Russia Investigation right away. Is that in your opinion Obstruction Of Justice . I think it would be very, very difficult as a prosecutor to make the case. Im not an attorney but common sense would tell me its going to take much more than that to prove any kind of
cooperators in the mueller probe and the judge who will decide flynn s fate has pushed for more and more information about what exactly michael flynn was providing to the government that was so useful and that is how we learned more about the extent to which people around the president and apparently around congress were essentially trying to sway michael flynn s testimony. of course this raises questions about why mueller didn t find anyone else obstructed justice. perhaps one of the people we know, for instance a member of the president s legal team reaching out to michael flynn and say telling us what you are telling the special counsel, it is a matter of national security. so it is a little unclear why obstruction the obstruction lines didn t follow those people who may have tried to influence flynn. but this judge is still pushing for more information. he said he wants the transcripts of this voice mail between someone in the administration s orbit and someone in flynn s orbit t
about plural incidents and more than one person. and there is one voice mail from john dowd i believe and it is we hear this audio, that is different than hearing a summary of what happened. if it sounds a certain way, this is because the judges said he wanted the transcript but will listen to the audio and will make that public. so there is the flavor that could be meaningful for people and then as you said we ve heard descriptions of multiple attempts to get in touch with them to find out what he would say to make sure he knew that he was in good esteem with the president and not to presumably not to change that. who are these people? what are the other attempts sounding like. if this isn t obstruction it is in the same time zone and probably in the same zip code. and some of the other people may be members of congress. that s the thing. so i think we start to get to why it is so important for congress to be able to get the unredacted material and also have hearings because o
remember this is what got flynn in hot water in the first place, talking about sanctions with the then russian ambassador and lying about it to the vice president and to the american people. so we could still learn more about this case going forward. so will the transcripts be something if we hear the voice mail. sarah murray, thank you very much. let s analyze. i have ashar rengoppa and frank bruni is a new york times opinion columnist and a cnn contributor. so welcome to both you. asha, you first, does what we ve just learned, this voice mail and communication, does that qualify as obstruction potentially? it can potentially qualify as obstruction. i think it is important to point out that this is actually in the mueller report. it is in volume two around pages 130, 131. you re good. not that i photographically memorized it. but i think it just goes to the volume of information in there. he does say that this could be an obstructive act.
you re watching cnn, on this friday afternoon i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. potential obstruction of the russia investigation. that is what robert mueller said was a possible goal of people with ties to the trump administration and to congress when they reached out to former trump national security adviser michael flynn. this contact took place a couple of years ago he was deciding whether or not to cooperate with the special counsel. flynn not only helped mueller with his investigation but as we just learned today, he also turned over a voice mail from one of the people, a personal attorney of his for president trump in the process. cnn politics correspondent sarah murray is in washington. and sayre yu, these revelations came thanks to the judge who will be sentencing michael flynn, is that correct? and how do he with get here. michael flynn has not been sentenced and one of the earliest and most valuable