there s no terms for a legal team. newt gingrich, first seen praising robert mueller and now disparaging robert mueller. is now weighing in on what special counsel mueller is investigating, namely whether the president is guilty of on instruction of justice, not that he denies the crime, he denies that any president ever could. presidents of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president is the chief executive of the united states, if he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. newt gingrich accused president clinton of obstruction of justice. page, first to you, first the fbi director does serve the president and can be fired any time. but do you agree that the
president trump saying publicly for the first time that he is under investigation. i think it s again an example of the president taking no responsibility for anything he does. the president is adding more fire power under his legal team. president trump has hired another high profile lawyer to defend him in the russian investigation. this is very, very serious, obstruction of justice charge is very serious, he just can t contain himself. the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. we have gotten to the point the president s own lawyer has to hire a lawyer. nobody has unimpeachable credentials. this is a president that engaged in questionable behavior the last several months. if he s really not guilty he will be happy to be exonerated by somebody that s out to find
obstruction of justice, joey. listen to former house speaker newt gingrich who was out promoting his new book about donald trump on the idea that the president could obstruct justice. here s what he says. technically, the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president of the united states is the chief executive officer of the united states. if he wants to fire the fbi director, all he has to do is fire him. i hand that to you, joey jackson. the president cannot obstruct justice. victor, i say this in the most objective way that i can, that s one of the most irresponsibility statements i ve ever seen made coming out of washington. my basis for that, basis number one, going back to 1974, there were three articles of impeachment against nixon. article one, obstruction of justice. 24 years later, 1998, another president, bill clinton, he was in the white house. we had a certain congressman, newt gingrich, guess what,
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night said on the case for obstruction of justice against the president. take a look. technically, president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. president of the united states is the chief executive officer of the united states. he wants to fire the fbi director, all he s got to do is fire him. all right. jennifer, what s your take there on the former speaker s take? it s just nonsense. actually he tried to impeach, he did impeach president clinton although he was not removed from office for obstruction of justice. so unfortunately, he is one of these people who has thrown his credibility down the drain. of course, a president can commit crimes. there s a good question whether he can actually be indicted while in office but certainly those can be grounds either once he leaves office for prosecution or certainly to be considered by the house and ultimately the senate for impeachment and removal. daniel, just because you can t be indicted or traditionally, the president