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Firing squad, circular intel. if a they plant essentially what they want to be attributed to the trump administration, they planted in a peripheral trump foreign policy advisor, that may arrange a meeting for him with an australian ambassador who then hears this news, and we are off to thef races. none of it is real. none of it. and the collusion has fallen apart and the obstruction. there isnt any obstruction. the president cannot obstruct by doing his constitutional duties. so what we are left...

Firing squad. circular intel. they plant what they want to be acontributed to the trump administration a trump born policy advisor and arrange a meeting for him who hears this news and we are off to the race. none of it is real. none of it. and the collusion -- fallen apart and the on instruction there is no obstruction the president cannot obstruct by doing his constitutional duties. what we are left with here is look at the length to which stheez people have gone to a, prevent trump from winni...

Hillary clintons campaign against jim comey because i thought>> he was unfair for her. i think the abuse of law enforcement power is scary. i said so at the a time. what world ass it were a federal prosecutor asks any politician what you criticize a federal official so much? >> its a world where we have laws. >> tucker: youre not allowed to criticize -- thats not the law. >> a president cannot obstruct justice because if they could, if they could burn files, if they could just stop things it wou...

Ordinary criminal cases like tax evasion or money laundering. in that case, the independent counsel could file an indictment naming multiple defendants. a president might say, oh, you have to strike me from the indictment, because im a sitting president who cant be indicted. at that point, the special counsel or the judge would say, will you -- will you agree that you will not argue, after you leave office, that the time for bringing charges is expired? and only if the president agrees to that w...

And only if the president agrees to that would you withdraw an indictment. >> yeah. so, before he resigned, the presidents lawyer, john dowd, argued that the president cannot obstruct justice, because under the constitution, he is the chief law enforcement officer. does that argument hold water, do you think, mr. dellinger? >> im holding water now, and the answer is no. the answer is absolutely no. that is the lamest argument that i have -- that i have ever heard. a president has the power to ap...

Happen to be in the conservative media. >> yeah. maybe donald trump wanted to fire the special counsel for conflict. does he not have the right it raise those questions? >> the president says it is fake news. that happened last june. you know, it is something we have to tell you about because it is headline in the new york times. what do you think about that? do you even care? >> the story is trump didnt. >> at the end of everything, trump did not fire mueller. what are we going to do in envoc t...

Than twitter trump. it is is not the first time he has met with attorneys in deposition. no one makes you take an oath when you go on television. tone comes from the top. to just freely lie about conversations that were had, to try to snow the measuring people and u.s. senators and act like the mere idea is totally crazy, it shows the deep disconnect between what they say on air and what is the truth. >> listen to this new wrinkle. is president trumps legal team going to defend him by arguing th...

You fight back, oh, its obstruction. so heres the thing, i hope so. >> just one more thing, michael, before i let you respond. his lawyer puts a fire point on that. the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under article 2. he has every right to express his view of any case. so freedom of speech, i guess or fighting back, is that all true, the president cannot obstruct justice? >> well, so, theres a whole lot of things in the clips that we should unpac...

Recusing himself from the russia investigation which led to rod rosenstein hiring mueller to do this. we know the position of the white house from what another white house attorney john dowd said a few months ago, the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the president and dowd argues that is a protection from article 2 of the constitution. the constitution doesnt lay this out. this would have to go through the courts all the way up potentially to the supreme court, whether the preside...

Prosecutors, but if theyre professionals, they get their job done in a professional way. >> do you remember, susan hennessy, one of the presidents lawyers, john dowd told axios, quote, the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer. he claims thats under article two of the constitution. that would still have to be determined by the courts, but thats the white house position. >> this really is a very, very extreme position. its essentially akin to saying the...