And now it's time for our daily Bloomberg lawb Brief, exploring legal issues in the news, brought to you by American Arbitration Association, International Trade or Business Dispute Result Faster with the International Center for Dispute Resolution, the leader in alternative dispute resolution around the world i c d R dot org. Today, Bloomberg Lahos student Grosso discusses Special Investigator Robert Mueller exploring obstruction of justice charges against President Trump
for interfering in the Russia investigation. She speaks with Fred tc, a partner at Ice Miller. Fred, after everything we've heard from James Coley and from the President himself in tweets and interviews, does this obstruction of justice investigation come as a surprise. No, under the current political climate, it doesn't come as a surprise in any way, shape or form. So, you know, the question is whether or not it's a legitimate criminal investigation of a of a of a serious crime,
and that that's a different issue. Well, how would you determine that until he actually goes through with his investigation. Well, I mean, let's assume for a minute that the conversation is what the conversation is, that's the obstruction, right, it was what was what President Trump said to Comy or or as as I understand now, they've expanded it to include the firing of Comey. The question is whether or not that was an attempt to corruptly and influence an investigation.
And the irony of all this, which is when people kind of put down the politics, certain people have the right in government to make decisions about whether or not investigations should go forward. Look, look what happened last fall and which led to the bipartisan call for Comy's firing because he made a determination that Loretta Lynch either implicitly
or explicitly decided not to move forward with an investigation. Well, that's no. That is her unfettered right as the attorney general, whether she's right or she's wrong to make that decision. That's not obstruction to just so the president could have stopped the investigation. Isn't it something different if you try to get someone else through some kind of coercion to try to stop the investigation. Well, that's a great question.
Does the president if the president has the authority to stop an investigation, and you see, here's the wrinkle that you throw it under coercion. Okay, there's no need to engage in coercion if you have the authority to do something. So does the president have If the president has the right to stop an investigation, does does he have the ability to delegate that right to someone else to stop
the investigation. That's that's a different question. And that is Fred tc, a partner at Ice Miller, speaking to Bloomberg Law host in Gross So you can listen to Bloomberg Law Weekday is at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio Now. Among the top legal stories from Bloomberg Law, the Justice Department is investigating a unit of Booze Allen over how he built the government for consulting work. The company says it's cooperating that its own prov has
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