it is clear that s between the line oz of what mueller s saying. with respect to cohen and manafort, that their lie thing to public. they re lie thing to public so distracted the investigators from their core mission and that interfered with their investigation and that could give rise to obstruction. ken starr said the same thing during bill clinton. so it s not clear to me that mueller will not take the same view, that all of these lies trying to divert the attention of the american people and make the job more difficult for investigators isn t part of the mosaic of what he will look at as obstruction. in the cohen documents, it says