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About the first question which i raised initially. what s the president s mind-set now that he s told he s not a target? does that mean he s ready to go before the prosecutor and enjoy himself? i don t know he s red to do that. when he feels like he s a target or the investigation is getting closer to him, he gets antsy about wanting to fire mueller and he clings to any swrefd good news he canning to find comfort. well, said. let me go to joyce for the expertise on the legal question. it seems like trump is constantly an pandered to by his lawyers with au kinds of great news. this will be over by christmas, by next week. now he gets more reason. life s look can good. i m not a target. that s interesting. we know this reporting comes to us not from the anybody on mueller s team. they ve been completely quiet. this obviously comes from folks ....
Intent. it has to be investigated by the special counsel. he has to talk to dowd and under oath. and if the attorney/client privilege is an obstacle, he may be able to pierce it because of the crime fraud exception. and a complete investigation of this aspect of possible obstruction of justice is absolutely necessary by the special counsel. michael schmidt in the times raising the possibility of obstruction, i want to read this. mr. mueller s team could investigate the prospect mr. dowd played offers to thwart the inquiry. the legal experts are divided whether such offers might constitute obstruction of justice. do you have an opinion on that? the conventional wisdom is that the pardon power is very broad. virtually limitless discretion. but it s not so broad it can be used to commit a crime to stymie or thwart ar investigation, that is for a corrupt purpose. and so what we have here is ....
Absolutely necessary by the special counsel. michael schmidt in the times raising the possibility of obstruction, i want to read this. mr. mueller s team could investigate the prospect mr. dowd played offers to thwart the inquiry. the legal experts are divided whether such offers might constitute obstruction of justice. do you have an opinion on that? the conventional wisdom is that the pardon power is very broad. virtually limitless discretion. but it s not so broad it can be used to commit a crime to stymie or thwart ar investigation, that is for a corrupt purpose. and so what we have here is potential use of that power to commit a crime to save himself to stop or stymie an investigation. the second point is that those cases about the broad and limitless discretion of the president are very old. they date from 1867 and 1871 and i think a court viewing what the president s done here would be ....
Investigation. i m with you on that. you know if he fires comey, let me go back to joyce. we know he fired comey and tried to protect michael flynn with comey. it s all public now. if that s all they ve got, then it opens the question was he obstructing justice in such a public way using his constitutional powers publicly. is that impeachable? and that s a good question. typically. and it s to you. obstruction. right now, it s to you. obstruction you can be charged with in criminal courts. but how congress deems an impeachable act is left up to their sound discretion. what we ve seen so far from this congress, they have not been imprised with the publicly available information about the president s conduct. there s been no outrage. there s been no calls to bring the president to heel or hold him accountable. so the issue we ll have is whether mueller s report if it reaches congress through rosenstein s office, whether that will contain additional ....
Instead, mueller described trump as a subject of his investigation. as legal experts say, there can be a fine line however between a target and subject of an investigation. a target is at immediate risk of being indicted. i subject is someone whose conduct is colorliened investigation. saying trump is not a target makes sense for two potential reasons. one, robert mueller isn t ready to indict him or two, mueller doesn t believe he can indict a president while in office. it does not say he s not investigating trump either for purposes of triggering or supporting impeachment or for indicting hill as a criminal. this development contradicts the president s claim in january he s not under investigation. there s been no collusion. there s been no crime. and in theory, everything tells me i m not under investigation. maybe hillary is, i don t know, but i m not. the news that the president s not a target of the probe comes ....