today was hey, no, trump did not say what he said, that his call to stop the probe was not really a call to stop the probe, not an order. mueller s investigators may disagree with that. they are probing how the president talks to and pressures the doj. one democrat a former prosecutor, spoke to how this all fits into criminal intent. clearly there statement is serious and substantial evidence of criminal intent. even if it doesn t constitute a crime itself. the president is coming close to actual committing the crime of obstruction of justice if not crossing that line already. and these tweets adding to each other amount to evidence of criminal intent. there is now right now a clearly credible case of obstruction of
accept information derogatory to hillary clinton and his campaign. there s lots of evidence that robert mueller s investigation has made public through indictments of russian efforts to influence the outcome of the campaign. what s been missing so far is something that connects point a to point b and makes it into a conspiracy. that may well it be the evidence that robert mueller is preparing to present. i m remind you lying to federal investigators is also a federal offense and sometimes things that are said on twitter whether it s by donald trump jr. or paul manafort or others, what really ends up being the thing that hangs them up is having testified in front of a committee or to an fbi investigator one way and it being proven that the facts are the opposite. i think those are the three core issues here. finally federal election law working in partnership to break the american laws which is conspiracy and lying to investigators most of the indictments that have so far come out from
know, as well, mueller has gathered a lot of evidence. he s interviewed a ton of people. he s pressaged in his questions that he s hinted at to the trump legal team what he s interested in. and obstruction is a central piece of what he wants to get from the president. you say obstruction and that brings us to the most damning and perhaps the most obvious question that i m sure many of us watching would like your view on. why do you think donald trump wrote something today on the internet that was so blatantly self-incriminating about potential obstruction of this case which is an investigation into his obstruction? so two things. i agree with all the prosecutors that i ve spent a lot of time with as a reporter in federal courts all over. i agree with them that any statement you make that suggests that you re threatening or intimidating or encouraging a
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