classified documents that our country creates. and yet he thinks the obstruction crimes are more glaring. he thinks an obstruction which before he became a.g. one of his auditions was a 19-point memo he wrote basically saying mueller s obstruction case was b.s. we know that s one of his favorite words and you ve got this son obstruction skeptic going on fox news of all places saying on obstruction trump s goose is cooked how baft d must it be there s two pieces to the mar-a-lago charge. one is the stealing of all these documents that carol s been referring to and i think carol s absolutely right. my first job at the solicitor general s office at the justice department was national security adviser. and the idea that anyone could take any one of these documents laet loan over 100 is unfat unfathomable, unthinkable and a clear and present threat to our national security because these documents can be reverse-engineered and you can
we sorry. [ laughter ] i love a good nazi joke on live joke. i m sure twitter will love it. joking. the podcast. i m helping twitter. i m trying. thank you. you don t need to worry about twitter anymore. research aside, that new material basically makes the point that as bad as all of this looks this story that they ve told with evidence, it looks this bad and that s even after what they allege is witness tampering, shoddy or misleading lawyering, potential other obstruction crimes and also in there we didn t know about this 30 people pleading the fifth rather than telling the truth and so i think you take that all together and reminds me of the godfather. we need a wartime consigliere, this is trump getting a coup-sigliere. you were waiting for that.
i m trying. thank you. you don t need to worry about twitter anymore. research aside, that new material basically makes the point that as bad as all of this looks this story that they ve told with evidence, it looks this bad and that s even after what they allege is witness tampering, shoddy or misleading lawyering, potential other obstruction crimes and also in there we didn t know about this 30 people pleading the fifth rather than telling the truth and so i think you take that all together and reminds me of the godfather. we need a wartime consigliere, this is trump getting a coup-sigliere. you were waiting for that. the point is that s where this cheap person who doesn t pay a lot of legal bills is throwing money around. it s not his money because he didn t raise it. to make sure these people don t talk and this handful of witnesses hide evidence and still after all that, it looks this bad. how much worse would it look if
collusion conspiracy narrative. i know a lot of folks focused on whether he said there was no evidence or insufficient evidence. as far as the prosecutor is concerned it doesn t matter. there is either evidence sufficient to charge a crime or there isn t. you can t be a little bit pregnant. he said there was no collusion or conspiracy and we can finally put that to rest, it s dead. on the issue of obstruction clearly he intimated but for the olc opinion his team probably would have charged donald trump with obstruction crimes. that s good news for democrats that are looking for a foothold to start impeachment proceedings. the bad news for democrats is bob mueller is clearly wrong on every level with regard to obstruction. but the biggest takeaway for me, smitty, was what bob mueller said that left me flabbergasted when he said if we had confidence that president trump did not clearly commit a crime we would have said so. in that moment what bob mueller did whether he intended to or not
as ari just said, i think mueller made it clear in the report and today what he chose to highlight was that there was evidence and that, you know, this policy is what prevented him from stating that he would have charged him with a crime. i thought it was interesting that mueller said i m not going to respond to hypotheticals. i think the hypothetical he s talking about is this hypothetical that many nearly 1,000 former federal prosecutors signed onto, which is that if trump weren t president he would be charged with a crime. mueller isn t going to answer that question. he ll answer it in the way he said in the statement. one thing i wanted to point out what mueller said. he talked about how obstruction crimes strike at the core of our justice system and democracy. that s important.