And crucially he knows he is not supposed to do what hes doing, not supposed to get involved, admitting at much in a Radio Interview yesterday. You know, the saddest thing is that because im the president of the United States, i am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. Im not supposed to be involved with the fbi. Im not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. And i am very frustrated by it. I look at whats happening with the Justice Department. Why arent they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her the dossier. If we havent yet heard widespread calls for impeachment, its because this president s disregard for the rule of law for democratic norms, his authoritarian impulses are largely baked in in the countrys perception, even among political insiders. It was just a couple of days ago, for example, that he called the american criminal Justice System a joke and a laughing stock. On top of that, all indications are that th
collude with russia. i am truly not involved. i think that distinction matters because i think of iran contra and the way that defense ended up moving which was from the facts being established about the conspiracy an whether the president knew about it, you can imagine a similar kind of development along those lines here. yeah, look, mueller s case this week against papadopoulos on its face is about one member of his campaign who was colluding with the russians, who was in contact with them, who was trying to set up meetings with them. so i think the president may have been counselled just to bow to reality here and put it on himself rather than his campaign. but, you know, look, at the end of the day, we don t know. we just have to deal with the evidence that we ve got. no, agreed. in front of us. and right now i come back to that meeting. yes, he proposed this to the
only the president can obstruct justice in a particular way that the president can do it, in a way that civilians or other folks can t. but you think these kind of actions and statements could be part of that case were it to be made by the special counsel? i do. i don t know that any one of these standing alone would be sufficient to bring a case of obstruction of justice but it s enough to attempt to influence the outcome of an investigation. if that s what he s doing, i think that could be part of the p totality of circumstances robert mueller looks at, along with firing jim comey. is that enough for obstruction of justice? every time he speaks an tweets, he makes the case stronger. barbara mcquade, thank you. tom steyer is putting some of his billions into an ad campaign calling for the president to be impeached. he now has almost a million and a half signatures. tom, i guess i knew your
way that civilians or other folks can t. but you think these kind of actions and statements could be part of that case were it to be made by the special counsel? i do. i don t know that any one of these standing alone would be sufficient to bring a case of obstruction of justice but it s enough to attempt to influence the outcome of an investigation. if that s what he s doing, i think that could be part of the totality of circumstances robert mueller looks at, along with firing jim comey. is that enough for obstruction of justice? every time he speaks an tweets, he makes the case stronger. barbara mcquade, thank you. tom steyer is putting some of his billions into an ad campaign calling for the president to be impeached. he now has almost a million and a half signatures. tom, i guess i knew your position before what the president has done over the last 24, 36 hours. what is your response to the calls to go after hillary
know, began during the campaign when they first but what is factually inaccurate? is it not the case that there was an e-mail to don jr. saying the russian government is backing your father and we would like to provide you with dirt on hillary clinton and he said i would love that. i understand, that was a mistake. listen, actually i understand, chris, that the string of those statements you said a tin foil hat. is that a representation of a factual thing no, i m not saying that you had a tin foil hat. i m saying there s a large group of people out there who are wearing tin foil hats who think donald trump himself actually speaks russian after the sun goes down. and i think those let s say the facts that are entered in evidence as of now which do not prove that donald trump had some secret handshake deal with vladimir putin to hack into hillary clinton s servers, but when put together, do you understand why people view that as somewhat incriminating? i definitely do