>>> BOB MUELLER INDICTED TWO PEOPLE FOR OBSTRUCTION TODAY.
THIS IS THE FIFTH TIME MUELLERS CHARGED OR SECURED GUILTY PLEAS
TO PEOPLE FOR CRIMES RELATED TO
OBSTRUCTION IN THE RUSSIA PROBE
EXACTLY A YEAR TO THE DAY THAT
JAMES COMEY TESTIFIED FOR THE
FIRST AND WELL, IT WAS THE ONLY TIME HE EVER TESTIFIED ABOUTNLY
TIME HE EVER TESTIFIED ABOUT ANOTHER TYPE OF POTENTIAL
OBSTRUCTION.
PRESIDENTIAL OBSTRUCTION. COMEY TELLING CONGRESS HE
THOUGHT TRUMP TRIED TO DIRECT
HIM TO DROP THE CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATION OF MIKE FLYNN.
>> I TOOK IT AS A DIRECTION.
>> RIGHT.
>> I MEAN THIS IS THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES WITH ME
ALONE SAYING I HOPE THIS, I TOOK
IT AS THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS ME TO DO.THIS IS WHAT HE WANTS ME
TO DO. I DIDNT OBEY THAT, BUT THATS
THE WAY I TOOK IT.
>> THAT WAS PRETTY DAMNING
TESTIMONY ALLEGING TRUMP TRIED
TO COMMIT OBSTRUCTION BUT COULDNT PULL IT OFF BECAUSE
COMEY WOULD NOT OBEY.
WHEN PRESSED WHETHER THOSE
CONVERSATIONS WERE AN EFFORT TO
LEGALLY OBSTRUCT JUSTICE, COMEY WAS MEASURED.UCT JUSTICE, COMEY
WAS MEASURED. ITS UP TO MUELLER AND PERHAPS
THE LEGAL PROCESS TO DECIDE IF A
PRESIDENT OBSTRUCTS, NOT A SINGLE WITNESS IN A CASE WHICH
IS WHAT COMEY BECAME AFTER HIS
FIRING.
FIRING.
> I DONT THINK ITS FOR ME TO SAY WHETHER THE CONVERSATION WAS
AN EFFORT TO OBSTRUCT.
I TOOK IT AS A VERY DISTURBING
THING, CONCERNING.
THING, CONCERNING. THATS A CONCLUSION IM SURE THE
SPECIAL COUNSEL WILL TRY TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE INTENTION
WAS THERE.
WAS THERE. >> THE SPECIAL COUNSEL HAS BEEN
WORKING FOR THAT CONCLUSION FOR
MANAFORT, FLYNN, KILIMNIK,
PAPADOPOULOS, GATES AND MANY OF
MUELLERS PROPOSED QUESTIONS FOR
TRUMP BEAR DOWN WHAT HE SAID AND
MEANT WHEN TALKING TO COMEY.
MEANTIME, TRUMPS LAWYERS
ARGUING THAT ONE, THERES NO
OBSTRUCTION IF THE PROBE
CONTINUED, TWO, TRUMP DIDNT SAY
THE PROBE SHOULD END AND THREE,
PRESIDENTS HAVE THE
CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO FBI
DIRECTORS.
DIRECTORS. TRUMPS LAWYERS ALSO ARGUE THAT
EVEN IF THAT INFAMOUS LESTER
HOLT INTERVIEW LOOKS BAD BECAUSE
TRUMP BIZARRELY ADMITTED THE ONE
THING YOU CANT ADMIT ABOUT FIRE
AGFBI DIRECTOR THAT HE DID IT
WITH A PROBE ON HIS MIND, BUT IN
THE SAME INTERVIEW IS, TRUMP
ALSO SAID SOMETHING THAT HIS
LAWYERS ARGUE NOW PROVIDES A
DEFENSE TO OBSTRUCTION.
THAT HE KNEW THE INVESTIGATION
WOULD CONTINUE.
WOULD CONTINUE. >> VERY SIMPLY WANT A GREAT FBI
DIRECTOR.
DIRECTOR.
I WANT TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF EVERYTHING.ET TO THE BOTTOM OF
EVERYTHING.
HAVING TO DO WITH THIS AND MANY
OTHER THINGS, SO IMPORTANT. >> WILL BE EXPECT THEY WOULD
CONTINUE ON WITH THIS
INVESTIGATION?
INVESTIGATION?
>> SURE, I EXPECT THAT.
>> NOW, THATS AN INTERESTING
DEFENSE AS FAR AS IT GOES.
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT MUELLER
WILL FIND OR DO NEXT. JUST LIKE NO ONE KNEW THAT TODAY
MUELLER WAS INDICTING ANOTHER
PERSON FOR OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE
IN THIS PROBE, A PERSON
CURRENTLY RESIDING IN RUSSIA WHO
WORKED WITH MANAFORT.
HERES WHAT WE DO KNOW.
IN THIS ENTIRE YEAR SINCE COMEY
FIRST TOLD THIS HISTORY UNDER
OATH, THE EVIDENCE AND ADVOCACY
OF OBSTRUCTION HAS BEEN GROWING
FROM THESE GUILTY PLEAS AND
INDICTMENTS FROM PEOPLE AROUND
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN TO THE NEW
RHETORIC IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT
THAT OF TRUMP ALLIES AND
INSIDERS SAYING MAYBE PEOPLE
SHOULD DESTROY EVIDENCE IN THIS
PROBE OR DEFY MUELLER BECAUSE
HES ALLEGEDLY GOING TO FRAME
PEOPLE ANYWAY.
PEOPLE ANYWAY. SO LETS BE CLEAR.
WERE NOT LIVING THROUGH NORMAL
TIMES.
TIMES.
PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES DONTC
LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES DONT TYPICALLY MINIMIZE FELONIES LIKE
OBSTRUCTION LET ALONE ADMIT TO
SPECIFIC ELEMENTS OF
OBSTRUCTION.
OBSTRUCTION.
BUT WHAT BOB MUELLER KNOWS AFTER
MORE THAN FOUR DECADES AS A PROSECUTOR AS WELL AS HEAD OF
THE FBI IS IF YOURE
OBSTRUCTING, IF YOURE COVERING
UP, ITS NOT USUALLY BECAUSE
YOURE INNOCENT BUT ARE LOOKING
TO DO A LITTLE WITNESS TAMPERING
ON THE SIDE.
THE PEOPLE WHO OBSTRUCT