political question, not a legal one. you re so smart. i m sorry. i m not patronizing. you that s the bullseye np in the end this special counsel can present a pile of evidence against this current president. i m not counting on the regular constitutional processes with this republican crowd who seem to be so institutionally and almost automatically loyal to trump even when there s no reason to do it expect they re in the same political party. sorry to cut you off. it s been a long session with a lot of news. thank you paul butler for the expertise and natasha, thank you so much. paul hamburger as well. we ll get back to the politics in a minute but coming up, the latest on two major natural disasters. they re catastrophes, first a deadly earthquake in mexico right now that happened yesterday, the death toll is going to rise as rescue crews
tom ham berger is a reporter fer the washington post, paul butler, a former federal prosecutor and natasha bretran is a reporter covering the russian problem for business insider. michael schmitt, talk about what you see from what documents there s pursuing from the white house at this point, is it centering more on obstruction of justice than initial possible collusion during the campaign? well all we know about is this request. we don t know about requests that may have gone to the campaign or the transition team. but what struck us about this was how much it was focused on things that have happened since the president has been in office and things she had a direct hand in. the firing of flynn, the firing of comey, how to respond to questions about the 2016 meeting his son and the russians who promised derogatory information about hillary clinton. muller s investigation to this point has been a bit of a black hole. we ve only known so much. but by looking at these requests
dirty. trump hires him and tries to protect him afterwards. and then why fire comey. why did he try to get rod rosenstein to jen up a reason when we know the reason. why is he lying? why is he creating a false narrative if the intent is to impede an investigation that s a federal crime. natasha, i m looking at the same thing that the expert paul butler is that the president of the united states did not want to be investigated and he used the power to prevent it. your thoughts, your reporting. i completely afree. today s reporting puts everything that we ve heard in the past couple of weeks about ty cobb s disagreements with other members of trump s legal team in context. they feel that president trump is very vulnerable when it comes to the possibility that he might be charged with obstruction of justice. and even if he s not charged with the crime of obstruction of justi justice, mueller is building a strong case that he can bring to congress and recommend impeachment which will b