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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ted Lieu on Mueller Hearing today

Ted Lieu

@tedlieu

Did we have special effects, soaring music and a laser light show? No. But the

@HouseJudiciary

Committee today did establish that

@realDonaldTrump

committed multiple acts of Obstruction of Justice. Those are felonies. We have a felon in the White House. #MuellerHearings

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Neal Katyal

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The basic thing page 97 outlines is obstruction of justice b/c Trump tried to get Sessions to unrecuse&end Mueller investigation of Trump. There are 3 elements:obstructive act, criminal intent+ nexus to an official proceeding. @tedlieu effectively got Mueller to say each of 3 met

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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Ted Lieu on Mueller Hearing today

The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

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