and she was truthful and cooperative with the committee but this is a lawyer she dropped before she appeared publicly and offered that bombshell testimony in that public hearing so obviously hutchinson had a lot of concerns about her representation in this process, ana. is this witness tampering, jen, and what about these other obstruction accusations? do they have legs? well, certainly doj will seriously consider any allegations from congress that their investigation was obstructed of the those are the sorts of referrals doj takes seriously and look into and telling a witness to lie can be obstruction of justice, it will just depend on what the proof is. you know, whether it s just a he said/she said or if cassidy hutchinson memorialized this conversation somewhere, told people at the time what was said, that would strengthen the case and note for lawyers, of course, their ethical obligations not to tell your client to lie so potential amelie you could be talking about a criminal
you would hope congress would get on its own without having to dig through mueller s trash. not having to go back through what he s already done. they re at that point. they have not been able so far to get don mcgahn and hope hicks to testify. you have to look at the clock, the election coming up. i remember heading into mueller day, we said the bigger testimony would be mcgahn. he was the cooperative witness. he talked to mueller over 30 times. he was at the heart of the obstruction accusations. he was the one the president talked to to fire mueller, and then he said tell everybody i didn t tell you to fire mueller. is he at the heart of that. he is what all of this could switch on. you watched that first hearing, don mcgahn s name came up question by question. laying out the obstruction case