circumstances. because the key element in obstruction of justice is the corrupt purpose, why was the person doing this thing. and if you can show all of these different efforts to try to persuade various people to stop this nftinvestigation, then youn build the case. looking at the firing allow is far too narrow. does there vb on the an underlying crime? meaning there was no underlying crime and you were trying to stop something politically embarrassing, is that obstruction? it is obstruction of the investigation. now the nib or any investigative body has to be a legitimate purpose for investigating. they may conclude at the end of their information that no crime was committed. but regardless if there was an effort to impede or obstruct the investigation itself, regardless of the ultimate outcome, that is obstruction of justice. barbara mcquade, thank you so much for joining us tonight. thanks, joy. lots more to come tonight,
bombastic threats. now it s very pointed and very specific and it demands counteraction. that starts the action-reaction cycling. this is a dangerous development. general clark, general hurt ling, general marks, thank you. next, the impact this is having on the trump team next. ck be nib u jack knocked over a candlestick onto the shag carpeting. .and his pants ignited into flames, causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all his belongings went up in flames. jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. visit geico.com and see how affordable renters insurance can be. dj: hey siri, remind me to csiri: okay, i ll remind you.
we have these two stories, the president firing comey and the former nib director saying that the president pushed him to back off the investigation into michael flynn. those competing stories prompted a crucial development in this story. the day after the report about the oval office meeting, things began moving at the justice department. attorney general jeff sessions had recused himself from the investigation months before because he had been part of the trump campaign. that left deputy attorney general rod rosenstein in charge. after the president said he was thinking of russia when he fired comey, deputy ag rosenstein made the decision to appoint a special counsel, not just any special counsel but comey s predecessor at the fbi. robert mueller was taking over the investigation. since then special counsel mueller has been methodically going about business, hiring a team of experienced lawyers, 16
transfers. i m going to assume people are telling different stories about why they got money. you match that with phone and e-mail information. if we re getting smoke changing over time from just a couple of interviews with newspapers from these people, think of what the nib is dealing with when they re looking at mounds of data and dozens of interviews. a.b., i know it s hard for lots of people to follow the different russian threads. there are many. to be honest, there is not sort of one tie that binds everything yet. obviously that s what robert mueller is looking into. we ll see if that ever happens, the so-called smoking gun. but there is also policy connected to this. congress is wrestling with russian sanctions right now. so at the same time that president trump is making nice with putin or hatching some
but whatever the case may be, there s nothing wrong with kushner seeking good representation. anybody who is being investigated by the doj should be advised to do so. and frankly, it speaks well of his current attorney that she would point out potential conflicts or the potential appearances of conflict. that seems like a good thing. the notion put forward by the president s lawyer over the weekend that a, the president is not under investigation for obstruction of justice, and b, he would know it if it were, is that the case? would the president be told that he was under investigation somebody no. it would belie logic, if the nib or the justice department was trying to conduct an investigation that was covert, trying to add as much information as they could before they alerted someone. you would not have the courtesy of being informed but you would know if you got a subpoena or