Krauthammer on Trump/Comey: This Is Not Obstruction; This Is Not Shutting the Investigation Down

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
BAIER: "My point is, is it appropriate to? Jonathan Turley, who I respect a lot, says he doesn't see anything that rises to the level obstruction of justice but "The comments are grossly inappropriate but we do not indict people for being boorish or clueless." That is Jonathan Turley commenting on what he reads Comey saying the president said."
KRAUTHAMMER: "As usual, Jonathan Turley is right. What the president was doing was trying to seduce him, but seduction is not an impeachable offense. Perhaps in the '90s but not anymore. The most important passage in the Comey testimony as this. The president went on to say that if there were some satellite associates of his who did something wrong it would be good to find that out. But that he hadn't done anything wrong but hoped I would find a way to get it out that we weren't investigating him. Look at it from trump's point of view. The head of the FBI has told him three times he's not the subject of an investigation by the press is in a frenzy over what did he do, when did he do it, what did he know. Comey says we didn't tell the president why we were not going public. It's a plausible reason. He said because if we did, then we would have a duty to undo it to tell the world that he was under investigation if there were a change, though he did with Hillary."
BAIER: "It's almost exactly the same. It's not getting too, I'm not going to say whether there is a crime here or not. I'm going to tell you this and then you decide."
KRAUTHAMMER: "From Trump's point of view, I am the one who is getting pilloried. FBI director agrees but they won't say it out loud. I am stuck. And he also said there are people, satellites, associates, then go get them. This is not obstruction, not shutting the investigation down. Could be throwing some people under the bus but it saying on the big one, was I involved. You are telling me I wasn't. How about letting the world know? That's a totally plausible scenario to me and it's the one Comey is offering."