doing something, he wasn t doing it at his house. not that we could find any evidence of. he denied he had anything to do with it. yes, he did. reporter: though pete couldn t and didn t try to deny his hatred for roberto ayala. why did you hate him? he was arrogant. he flaunted stuff in my face. reporter: still, the man had as if this were some biblical epic stolen his birthright. lots of people around town knew about that, especially the ayalas. so when they heard peter moore s house was being searched. i thought it was pete all along. reporter: why? he was always the one that had something mean to say. he was always the one that hated him. that was the only person i could think of. reporter: there was a lot of town talk going on. a lot of gossip, rumor. about a week after his house was searched pete got a visit from a friend who had heard some things. i was working one day and he saw me and he backs up and he
reporter: the search, said detective psalm, didn t yield a thing. we didn t find anything as far as bomb making materials, instructions on bombs. even anything in remotely close to that. like, gun powder or anything like that. reporter: so if pete was doing something, he wasn t doing it at his house. not that we could find any evidence of. reporter: he denied he had anything to do with it. yes, he did. reporter: though pete couldn t and didn t try to deny his hatred for roberto ayala. why did you hate him? he was arrogant. he flaunted stuff in my face. felt the man had as if this were some biblical epoch, stolen his birthright. so when they heard that peter moore s house was being searched i thought it was pete all along. reporter: why? he was always the one that had something mean to say. he was always the one that hated him. that was the only person i could think of.
doing something, he wasn t doing it at his house. not that we could find any evidence of. he denied he had anything to do with it. yes, he did. reporter: though pete couldn t and didn t try to deny his hatred for roberto ayala. why did you hate him? he was arrogant. he flaunted stuff in my face. reporter: still the man had as if this were some biblical epic stolen his birthright. lots of people around town knew about that especially the ayalas so when they heard peter moore s house was being searched. i thought it was pete all along. reporter: why? he was always the one that had something mean to say. he was always the one that hated him. that was the only person i could think of. reporter: there was a lot of town talk going on. a lot of gossip, rumor. about a week after his house was searched, pete got a visit from a friend who had heard some things. i was working one day and he
that seemed surprise the notion they would be eemailing andtectsing and discussing a directive to lie to congress. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing you would put in writing and where we re left is the idea of wondering whether there is corroboration in any form for michael cohen s story that donald trump directed him to lie. it s a completely plausible story. it s what he was saying he was directed to make illegal campaign finance but the question is it corroborated? because the house is not going to impeach donald trump on the word of a convicted liar. you made mngz mention of this but the significance of the time. buzzfeed writes this story. this thing gets lawyered and edited and they go back to their sources. these reporteders hars have a g track record.
when he talks about basically making the argument you cannot commit obstruction is basically to say let s just be clear if a president knowingly destroys or alters evidence or suborns perjury then he, libe anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction. is that a consensus view? it is. even when bill barr agrees with it, who has petty outlandish view of president immunity from criminal wrong doing, i think literally everyone agrees with it. maybe giuliani. but anyone in the mainstream and the reason for that is simple, which is there s no princeful in than no one is above the law. he s written a memo that says he can t obstruct justice. so he fired comey, barr argus