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Resign if the president went forward, a source tells cnn. in statement, trump s attorney would only say we decline to comment out of respect for the office of the special counsel and its process. trump has disparaged the inquiry in the election. but the stunning revelation that trump tried to oust the man leading the probe is perhaps one more point in pattern of behavior some say could be considered obstruction of justice. the criminal act of interfering with a law enforcement investigation. in addition to trying to fire mueller, the president asked former fbi director, james comey, for his loyalty in january, then in february, trump asked comey to drop any investigation into michael flynn. he fired comey officially in may. saying it was because of the fbi director s handling of the clints e-mail investigation, but later told nbc s lester holt something different. when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this ....
One is it seems like when the president of the united states decided he wanted to get rid of bob muell mueller, some freaked about it. that shows it was probably both a politically bad idea, but also bad for him as far as legal exposure goes. then when he and others go about lying about it, cnn points eight or nine different occasions that the firing had never been discussed. the question you have to ask yourself and that people might have to ask themselves why lie if it was appropriate and it was just sort of a policy difference. often the reason people lie is because they knew that not only looked bad, but was potentially coming up close to the line of something illegal. legally though, the president has the authority to fire mueller, so explain why his removal would create such a a potentially illegal fire storm. i think there would be three ....
And sundounds like there s a consensus, that president trump wanted mueller to be gone. there s really only one reason he wanted him to be gone and that s to end the russia investigation. on top of having fired jim comey and other thing that have been reported, it doesn t make the case weaker. many of the people around president trump actually lying about this. about whether or not the president wanted to fire mueller. why is this important? lying is always bad generally speaking, but also in legal cases. you know, when you re trying to prove something that is required to be proven by law, particularly in something like obstruction, you have to show it was in someone s mind and to prove what s in someone s mind since we don t have ways to figure out what s going on in someone s mind thu science, you look atz other indications. one of those that pros prosecutors use every day is whether or not they trooed to cover it up. ....
Russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. it s an excuse. the president also pressures attorney general jeff sessions not to recuse himself from the russia probe which sessions did in march and he asked national intelligence, nia and csa to push back on connections between the trump campaign and russians. sessions was also pressured to fire andrew mccabe and the new york times reports he considered dismissing rod ros rosenstein, who has been overseeing the investigation since the sessions recusal. in this case, you can end all of the activities together. then you can take the attempted fire and use that as a window into president s intentions and from that, build an obstruction case. since the president s reported push to fire mueller in june, he has repeatedly denied mueller s firing was ever a ....
That he s you know, it s a bridge too far. the second problem and the third problem with related to each other because ultimately, i don t mean to jump the gun, but ultimately, if there s a shift in power in congress and there s a move, not saying it s going happen, but there is a move towards impeachment, the very same people in congress who are having a negative reaction to this and saying there s a bright line or red line as far as the fire iing of bob mueller goes, they re going to be the ones considering later on whether or not the president abuse d his power and that s sort of a political standard as much as it is a legal standard. so to do a thipg lithing like ts after people told you not to do it in particular, your own white house counsel and after having lie d about it and doing it any way in the face f all sorts of people saying don t do it, i think creates a big deal and a fire storm, which is the word ewe use you used. last june when he wanted to fire mueller, the presid ....