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Muellers office in january arguing their client should not have to sit down with the special counsel. >> they say as president, president trump can grant pardons, fire an fbi director or end an investigation, quote, at any time and for any reason. >> joining us live is cnn reporter sarah westwood. what are you learning when you hear from the fallout of this letter being published? >> reporter: this letter represents a remarkable over the russian investigation and hand delivered to the special co...

Certainly robert mueller is going to be sitting down with and hearing their versions of the event as they occurred at the time. >> because these are people who are also very close to james comey when he was the fbi director, you look at what the white house is arguing, trumps lawyer argued earlier this month, the president cannot obstruct justice because hes the chief law enforcement officer under article ii. the presidents lawyers say he had the right toleran do this, doesnt matter what he trea...

We dont know whether or not, you know, he has written a report or otherwise recounted what he was told by james comey, but we know this much, we know mueller is looking at obstruction of justice. we know that from the document request he sent to the white house, from witness interviews hes conducted, and i dont think any prosecutor could be looking at obstruction of justice without looking at the testimony of james comey and what we call corroborate, in other words, what can back up testimony of...

Credit for writing trumps tweets until this one. trumps tweets are official statements, according to his own spokesman. >> are president trumps tweets considered official white house statements? >> well, the president is the president of the united states, so theyre considered official statements by the president of the united states. >> they are considered official statements by the president of the united states. except for when they dont like what it says and they want to blame it on one of h...

Russia investigation this summer. his former campaign manager paul manafort is under house arrest. his attorney general had to recuse himself from all of this after questions about his own testimony under oath. his former national security adviser michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with kislyak. and president trump has continued to wage war on the press for what he calls fake news on russia. and if you think the white house doesnt have obstruction on its mind...

The presidents account. that got a lot of attention, tweeting for the president. now, the lawyer says, im out of the tweeting business, i did not mean to break news. but in the meantime, jon, the presidents lawyers are going with a new legal strategy tonight when it comes to obstruction of justice? >> reporter: the presidents lawyer is arguing that the president, because of the nature of his job as the head of the executive branch, cannot, by definition, commit obstruction of justice. david, its...

House told the press that tweet was dictated by the presidents lawyer, john dowd. so, it wasnt the presidents words that the president was tweeting out after all. that twitter post created so much controversy originally because it seemed to signify the first time the president has acknowledged publicly that he knew flynn lied to the fbi before mr. trump fired him last february. that raised a new set of questions about whether the presidents actions amount to obstruction of justice. heres what th...

What obstruction of justice is. thats the problem for the president. and i just want to point out, john and poppy, that he continues to make the case for mueller himself. from the get-go this entire thing is unrelated to russia in the sense that it exists completely independently and completely self-created. >> right. you can obstruct justice independent of whether or not russia tried to meddle the election, how you behave about that investigation, which may now be the subject of an investigatio...

That, himself. she doesnt understand that special counsel is going to be able to find out if john dowd was e-mailing, if he was texting, if he was calling before the president tweeted things out and its just like, how stupid of them they they we are. we all know that dowd didnt dictate that. we all know that a lawyer, a personnel of law school of three days would not have used that language. it was the president. he admitted to obstruction of justice and you know that because now even dowd is go...

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