barr s defense of that decision. the memo contends, mueller s report did not establish a case to charge trump with obstruction, who failed to establish any underlying crime related to russian election interference. but, as nbc has reported, mueller s report actually did identify ten episodes that could be considered potential obstruction of justice. as one former mueller prosecutor points out, that is just one a couple of high-level justice department officials were worried about. two senior staff say to bill barr that the reason he should make the decision is because, if the memo comes out, it might be read to imply that the president committed obstruction. this memo makes it clear that the reason that bill barr did not ask robert mueller to simply come to a conclusion is because, as it says here, that report can be read to find that, indeed, he did commit obstruction. as for the ongoing investigations into the former president, tonight the justice department is facing a
meanwhile, nbc news reports that top intelligence officials do not appear to have launched a former formal damage assessment related to classified documents found at mar-a-lago. there were also signs the former president is increasingly upset over the fbi seizure of those records. rolling stone reports he has been pushing his lawyers to, quote, get my my top secret documents back. one prominent constitutional lawyer had a no holds barred response to that. these documents belong to the executive branch, they belong to the united states of america, and donald trump cannot assert that branch privilege as the former president of the executive branch. trump took them, he stole them, in effect. one washington post columnist says trump s determination to cling to classified documents could create his biggest legal headache yet. an op-ed titled behind trump s campaign of delay and defiance at mar-a-lago, david ignatius writes that trump is now like king leader in angry exile.
the federal government cannot provide for the common prosperity. the federal government cannot secure its own elections. the federal government cannot provide for the common defense. the federal government cannot secure the blessings of liberty. the federal government cannot secure its own borders. the federal government cannot prioritize its own citizenry. the federal government cannot handle a public health crisis with any competence. the fall government cannot reflect and advance the values of its own people. the federal government cannot assert it only constitutional authority versus an upstart letterhead bearing pact. what county federal government do? try not paying your taxes or protesting an out-of-control school board or sending a joke tweet and you will find out. they will try, they will put every effort into trying to crush you like a bug. it s a late soviet state of affairs. we like to think that the ussr fell because people s yearn for freedom. the soviet empire actually
jury subpoena, to a third party, a private third party, that just because it implicates the president, or may mention the president in the material, the president cannot assert immunity or privilege over those materials. let me pick up on that point for a moment about the issue of presidential immunity, the argument is that it is a disstraction for his day to day job but he wants to extend presidential immunity, it seems, to his businesses, to his relatives, to associates. really anything he touches. before he was president. when you think about the point that cyrus vance wants eight years of corporate tax returns, trump says no, it is presidential immunity. is there any truth to apply presidential immunity to things that have nothing to do when are president. probably not. that is a not a winning president. and the president s argument is even more expansive than that.
can t tell us how thos emails got to wikileaks. tucker: wait a second. if he can t show how he they got to wikileaks, then how does he know i mean, that s essential fact. if you can t know that, then yot can t know anything, can you? no. i think it shows a real core flaw on his part and he should be questioned on it when he appears before congress next week.ea there is he suggests that the emails were given to wikileaks via these russian cutouts, alleged russian cutouts, guccifer 2.0, d.c leaks, but the timeline makes no sense. according to mueller s account, assange he got those emails from guccifer 2.0 and before he transferred by guccifer 2.0 which mueller cannot assert.