i am sure the team were the ones who were scripting those questions, because you heard things about, willful blindness. that is to establish the mental intent. can you say, i had no idea this was going to happen you might, but there is a legal instruction that says, you cannot pretend to deliberately ignore the obvious. that s called willful blindness and a jury may use that evidence to draw an inference that the personly did know. we also heard evidence of causation. it was he, donald trump, whose actions and inactions, set this chain of events into action, that caused this delay at the capitol. so, i think they are doing a very lawyerly job of setting the elements of both of these offenses into motion. claire, let me show you what adam schiff had to say about this final moment, the stakes of their final decisions and moves.
you want to meet with me? i want the announcement about the bidens. that s not only a quid pro quo, that s an attempted bribe. i don t know. that s mens rea. what is the intent behind the mental intent. you actually have the if you look at these things in a vacuum, you might be able to interpret it one way or the other. if you look at the full context, that s what the president has. what was his intent? he wanted to root out corruption in ukraine which everyone agrees is one of the topmost corrupt nations in the world. top five on everybody s list. but he never mentioned any of the corruption that is germane to ukraine. he only cared about his political interests. i don t know if that s right, chris. what else did he want him to look at? the president has a fiduciary obligation toic ma sure the taxpayer money is not misspent overseas. he knows ukraine is a corrupt nation. zelensky said i want to drain the swamp here too. the problem with ukraine corruption is not a co
that can lead to death. stay together with the lantus $0 copay. let s stay together talk to your doctor or visit saveonlantus.com. you know, people say donald trump s impulsive, including his critics. but it can be a mistake to use just that lens about all things trump. there is evidence that shows he can also be quite canny and premeditated. bob mueller is certainly probing whether president trump s more than impulsive. because proving the mental intent for obstruction usually require morse than impulse. it requires corrupt planning. consider that for ten months, donald trump avoided ever
trump. there is evidence that shows he can also be quite canny and premeditated. bob mueller is certainly probing whether president trump s more than impulsive. because proving the mental intent for obstruction usually require morse than impulse. it requires corrupt planning. consider that for ten months, donald trump avoided ever criticizing bob mueller by name or ever impulsively even tweeting his name, until now. after the friday night firing of comey deputy andrew mccabe, trump is now singling out mueller by name. it looks like a new phase. it looks deliberate. it does not look impulsive. and some republicans i can tell you tonight apparently agree. speak out in the most direct terms we ve seen about what happens if trump tries to illegally remove mueller. they re talking about posta ini impeachment. if the president fired robert mueller, do you think that would be an impeachable offense? probably so, if he did it
and this uncertainty within the west wing and beyond. jeremy, what s the toughest task for any lawyer attached to this president, any lawyer charged with defending in president? well there are a number of facts very difficult to explain. let me list a few. i think on the obstruction charge when the president cleared the room kicked out the vice president and his other aides to talk to jim comey. that is a very difficult fact to explain. it shows intent, mental intent which the president to obstruct justice. second of course is the phone call between mike flynn and the russians from december 29th. that goes to collusion. third, i would say is when sally yates warned the white house counsel she was acting the attorney general she warned the national security adviser could be subject to blackmail. and she they kept him in. then the e-mail when the trump campaign saw last june that the russian government was trying to help the campaign.