Good afternoon. Welcome, and thank you for joining our obstruction of justice briefing. This event is sponsored by a project uncoordinated for the American Constitution Society, and citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington called the president ial investigation education project. We are grateful to senator whitehouse and his staff for graciously hosting us in this lovely meeting room. And were glad that the senator is planning to join the event a little later on to share his perspective. I want to start with a few brief thoughts about the joint project and the program today, then i will turn things over to our moderator to kick off the discussion. The president ial investigation education project is a joint Nonpartisan Initiative of the American Constitution Society and citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington to promote informed public evaluation of the investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller into russian interference in the 2016 election, and related c
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