Alter: Trump Fired Comey ‘for Looking into Michael Flynn; That Is Obstruction of Justice’

RUSH EXCERPT:

ALTER: "You’ve got to put this in two categories. On the collusion and on the potential financial improprieties, that he’s collecting evidence now. We don’t know where a lot of that is going to go. There’s a lot of smoke, no fire. Obstruction of justice, there you have a constitutional disagreement. People who believe in a conventional approach to obstruction of justice look at it as almost open and shut based on Comey’s testimony. The president fired Comey when he realized that he was looking into Michael Flynn. He instructed him to protect Michael Flynn. That is obstruction of justice. It’s very likely that Bob Mueller is going to include the same thing. He and James Comey have similar experience, friends and colleagues. Whether that is accepted by the president, who says he has the power to do this, as we heard yesterday, is a totally different matter."