person, in this case the president acted with corrupt intent, with an intention to do something unlawful, so there s going to have to be more than what we ve seen for it to get to a point of being charged and potentially get a conviction. i think we also need to remember that there are going to be more people interviewed and as more people are interviewed, and we get more information about conversations that the president had, either regarding comey s ring or w he thought about th investigation and how h thought it if he wanted it to go away, any other actions that he or his staff took, those could all come to bear on the question of intent. so i don t think we can make a judgment right now based on what we know. but tom, what would actually compel them to answer all the questions as it relates to these intelligence officials the president had the benefit last week of avoiding the headline
intelligence, mike rogers, head of the national security agency, and rogers deputy, agreed to be interviewed by mueller s investigators and it could happen this week. the wall street journal, he wrote a memo that mr. rogers had with president trump. trump didn t wait to fight back. he tweeted this morning, quote, they made up a phony collusion with the russians story. found zero proof. now, they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. nice. then just an hour later, this tweet. you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history, led by some very bad and conflicted people. #maga. make america great again. also new this morning, an inforal adviser to president trump and also part of the transition team was pushing back on reports, as well. the notion that the president of the united states obstructed
that he didn t ill his it executive privilege, he didn t call upon it, they didn t answer questions, jeff sessions didn t answer questions, on some level the president gets his cake and eats it too. at some point the white house will have to make the call whether the president is going to assert executive privilege. but over communications he had. hasn t he kind of already? when you looked at angus king last week saying, you haven t answered my questions, you don t have the right to not answer my questions, they just sort of still sat there. they did. again, this was in the context of a congressional hearing where there was no requirement at the time that they answer questions and i think they were well within their rights not to disclose at the time the substance of their communications with the president. that preserves his ability to subsequently assert executive privilege if he decides to do so. so now, they re under much different pressures to answer those questions
in a major development the special counsel is now looking into whether president trump tried to obstruct justice. that s right. our president. he responded to the washington post reporting this morning via twitter saying quote, they made up a phony collusion with the russian story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on this phony story. nice. in another tweet, he called it, quote, the single greatest witch hunt in american political history. i want to bring in ashah, a former fbi special agent now an associate dean at yale law school and tom served as deputy assistant attorney general from 2007 to 2009, a lawyer for george w. bush. tom, the home court advantage and i will go to you first. as far as obstruction of justice there s been, obviously, the
looking into whether president trump himself tried to obstruct justice. robert mueller is looking into interview three intelligence officials as early as this week about their interactions with the president. nbc s peter alexander is at the white house. peter, the president has taken to twitter this morning responding. tell us more about it? let s be clear, this could be one of the biggest developments to date in this investigation. president trump lashing out on the reports he s being investigate for the possibility of obstruction of justice. from a series of tweets he wrote. they made up a phony collusion with the russian story, found zero proof and now go for obstruction of justice. on the phony story. nice. then later tweeting you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in american political history led by some very bad and conflicted people. as you noted, this comes after the washington post reports that the special counsel robert mueller is looking into whether the pres