the most important hearing that they have had so far in their lives. i believe that they ll do so in a respectful manner. what s key here is that we listen to each other. and this isn t about grand standing. no one is watching this to watch me or anyone else on the committee. they re listening and watching this hearing to get answers in the most important investigation of our lifetime. i think we ll do a good job. president trump repeated his old line today about bob mueller and his findings. here he is. we had no collusion, no obstruction. we had no nothing. we had a total no collusion finding. the democrats were devastated by it. they went crazy. they got off the deep end. they re not doing anything. obviously, on obstruction he is wrong. mueller said he couldn t exonerate him. but in your area on collusion or conspiracy, mueller did make a conclusion and he wrote as you know congressman, but let me
limit the investigation and let sessions know he is fired if he doesn t meet with lewandowski and witness tampering with them. is that the right place to go to focus on the obstruction. it is absolutely the right place. mueller identified 10 potential incidents of obstruction over the report. these five pieces are three of those issues and they are the strongest arguments for obstructi obstruction. they are all meritorious for prosecuti prosecution. you have a president here who but for being president would probably have been prosecuted for obstruction on these 10 counts. he has his former lawyer in prison for committing a crime that we now know he actively participated in organization straighting. a maybe they should look at the memo who said a president is above the law. the congress ought to look at
have an opinion economy, 2005, by the united states supreme court and this is the key opinion when it comes to obstruction. it s arthur anderson petitioner versus united states.e the district court level arthur anderson lost in the circuit court level in the fifth circuit they lost but what did they lose? they were accused of obstructi obstruction, destroy documents among others andrew wiseman, deputy to mr. mueller, he led the effort. arthur anderson went broke, 80000 people lost their jobs in the supreme court reversed the lower court s in a c nine-zero opinion and six, seven, eight pages long and almost perfunctory. but they say and here is wait a minute, you can t just accuse someone of objection because we don t like what they said or that the try to impede. there are elements to describe the not so easy to prove. knowingly dishonest and a corrupt intent. resident of the united states
report. most people have not read the report. what he says in his press conference it was so powerful. it was not new if you read the report but it matters if you hear it from him. are you interested? i am interested for the american people to hear from him. attorney general barr misrepresented of what s in the report. the report had no collusion and obstructi obstruction, that s not true either way. it is important that the american people hear from him of what the report has and it is important that he answers a lot of specific questions. one of the questions that s not specific in the report is you wrote a letter to mr. mueller to the attorney general saying that he had in ways misrepresented the report. it is important that is the american people hear from him. how worried are you that he wants to do this so little that he s going to be non-responsive.
whole standard of governing. when you have in a report by special counsel, 10 examples of what could possibly be obstructi obstruction. at what point do we expect that our senators and our congress people say, wait a minute. before we lower the bar of the presidency and before we excuse any kind of behavior that could be impeachment, for the good of the country we ll have to move forward and resolve this one way or another. the funny thing about this special counsel s report is if you took any group of americans and said, how many of you have sat down and read this entire 233-page report, i don t think you would say in hands raised. maybe not even attorney general barr s. go ahead. the report is extraordinary. one of the interest things is the attorney general keep saying we looked at each of these