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Welcome back. im david gura. a piece of breaking news here reported by "the new york times" on a 20-page memo written by jay sekulow and john dowd related to whether or not the question might testify, might answer questions posted by robert mueller and his team. the "new york times" has seen this 20-page letter. were beginning to wade through it ourselves but the question as summarized by the times here is that lawyers for months have been waging a campaign to keep the special counsel from tryin...

But at the same time, its also not surprising because this is consistent with so much that weve heard already about how trump treats the justice department and his attitude toward the justice department, which as your previous guest alluded to is really he sees it as a political institution, as a political arm, not as an independent law enforcement arm, but as a political arm. and we saw that in the testimony from james comey. just like jeff sessions, james comey said that trump demanded loyalty...

Playbook with all this? >> well, there is a number of things hes doing. his latest information that he is above the law certainly sounds like what richard nixon said which was if the president does it, its not illegal. well, now hes donald trump and his lawyers are saying that the president cannot obstruct justice. and that is a ridiculous claim. of course he can. and we know that from walter gate because president nixon was named an unindicted co-conspirator for obstruction of justice for the c...

>> it. >> it gets worse. >> on a monday, its a fire hose and continues to dribble throughout the week. do you believe theres evidence, john dean, that the president obstructed justice? >> well, i think were accumulating a state of mind that could, indeed lead to a charge of obstruction. technically he cant be gooit indi indicted for it because he is president. it could lead to an impeachment, though. we dont have all the facts, don, but what we do have certainly indicates he doesnt want an inves...

>> eventually. and i also want to get you on what you make of evolving defense theory coming from donald trumps personal attorney and white house attorneys. you had john dowd floating donald trump cannot obstruct justice. but now you have ty cobb from the white house, i dont know, downplaying talking to the "washington post" saying theyre focused on a fact-based defense not a mere legal defense. one of my initial questions, is why arent all these folks on the same page when it comes to something...

The criminal justice system. it can only be done via congress. >> ken, jeff, carry, appreciate it. as weve mentioned tonight theres one comparison that this administration just cant seem to shake. watergate keeps coming up. the latest example claims the president cannot obstruct justice. well get into that next with journalist carl bernstein. ortfo. well, what are you doing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. noon? eating. 3:45? uh, compliance training. 6:30? sams baseball practice. 8:30? tai chi. ...

Reminds you of this. watch. this is richard nixon. >> in a sense, youre saying is that there are certain situations, the houston panel, that part of it, was one of them, where the president can decide that its in the best interest of the nation or something and do something illegal. >> well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal. >> that is familiar. >> i mean, it sounds like thats what hes saying, right? >> its also emphatically wrong. i mean, its wrong. >> if you bought that...

From washington who to vote for. >> i dont know any of these women. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to i dont eyour "new day." alisyn camerota is off, and the one and only poppy harlow is here. >> the two -- >> yeah, cant wait for that. did donald trump obstruct justice when he fired fbi director, james comey. the presidents lawyer is arguing that the president is above the law and cannot obstruct justice. why did the president res...

Comey testified in july under oath that there is no evidence that hillary clinton lied to the fbi and the president said the contrary with the lack of any evidence. im old enough to remember when, back in 1999 then senator jeff sessions and mitch mcconnell and 40 republican lawmakers were going after the president and using the terms obstructing justice, then president clinton, saying he obstructed justice in the monica lewinsky affair investigation. now you have the argument, as chris just laid...

But we do know that it happened and it happened in january. again, this means that when the president allegedly asked james comey to go easy on flynn, he may have known or at least had reason to believe that flynn had committed a felony. that means this tweet on saturday could provide additional evidence he obstructed justice which may explain why the white house, especially the presidents personal attorney, john dowd, has been doing damage control regarding that individual tweet. dowd first say...