There are several laws that cover obstruction, and threatening communication is included in what is considered impeding an investigation. "From what I've seen - and of course we don't know a whole lot - the answer is no", Starr said on CNN's "New Day", when asked whether he thinks there's a case for obstruction of justice.
During his testimony, the former Alabama senator was often defiant, telling the committee allegations that he'd colluded with Russian Federation during the 2016 presidential election was an "appalling and detestable lie" and that he'd never recused himself "from defending my honor against scurrilous and false accusations". "Americans don't want to hear that answers to relevant questions are privileged or off limits".
The shift toward investigating the president himself began days after Trump fired James Comey as Federal Bureau of Investigation director on May 9, the Post said.
Comey told Congress last week that he leaked his memos of his conversations Trump to a friend after a tweet by the president suggested he may have taped the conversations. Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen.
The report goes on to state that while Trump is suspicious of Mueller and that he is still furious with Attorney General Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the Russian Federation probe. The White House has not invoked executive privilege and Sessions, in a novel legal argument, said he was trying to protect Trump in case the president wanted to invoke the privilege at some later point.
Rosenstein said he would agree to dismiss Mueller only if there were a legitimate basis to do so, and an order from the president would not necessarily qualify. In response, he said it was his understanding that Kislyak was at the event, but that he could "not remember" talking to him, while admitting that it was "possible", reports The Week.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) told Sessions, "I believe the American people have had it with stonewalling".
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"The suggestion that I participated in any collusion or that I was aware of any collusion with the Russian government to hurt or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process, is an appalling and detestable lie", he told lawmakers when testifying before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee.
"Further, I have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump campaign", he said.
The strangest disconnect of the day was among Republicans and Democrats on the intelligence committee who agree that the Russians dangerously interfered with the 2016 election and will do so in future ones, and a White House that has a freakish lack of interest in what happened.
Trump vehemently denies any collusion between himself or any of his associates and Russian Federation.
The attorney general has acknowledged two meetings a year ago with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.
The attorney general said he learned after the fact that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was at a reception held in conjunction with a foreign policy speech then-candidate Trump gave at Washington's Mayflower Hotel in April 2016 that Sessions attended.
Mr Grassley said Mr Comey's dismissal and his testimony on Ms Lynch should be looked at together, noting that Mr Comey "took the opportunity in his testimony to clear his own name by denouncing as false the administration's claims that the FBI rank-and-file had lost confidence in Mr Comey's leadership in the wake of the Clinton email investigation".
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