me meacham. it s so much about this that s unprecedented. a blend of the andrew johnson impeachment for defying congress and the richard nixon impeachment for all sorts of obstruction sort of blended together but i want to play for you another thing that i think is unique about this impeachment in that this is the first time that we re actually seeing a literal word from the impeachment article being thrown around about the president of the united states and that is the word bribery. i want to play you the speaker of the house nancy pelosi from thursday. the devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery uncovered in the inquiry. bribery and that is in the constitution attached to the impeachment proceedings. so what was the prescribe here? the bribe is to grant or with hold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the election. john, is it just rhetorical?
that s just been posted, we haven t had a minute to check this out but they ve been in the forefront of a lot of the reporting, saying that mueller is looking at some of the president s statements regarding sessions and comey, and that would involve, i suppose, trying to wrap up a report on the obstruction aspects of this case. kristen? reporter: that s consistent with a lot of the reporting that i have done, andrea. so i wouldn t be surprised by that. we know that the special counsel has been focused on this idea of obstruction sort of at the forefront as opposed to the collusion piece of it right now as it relates to the president s campaign. to the broader question, is the president going to sit down and do this interview with special counsel robert mueller? i spoke with rudy giuliani, the president s attorney, a little while ago, who essentially said to me, look, we haven t made a decision about that, in part because there have been so many other issues that have cropped up, incl