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He cannot be charged. theyre running around the back side saying this is there, this may have happened. heres our legal footing, we think, which is not a sounds one. >> theyre always moving the line, you know, three, four months earlier, they said this isnt obstruction of justice because there is not an investigation. right? thats before they knew what was going on, that was the argument. now there the an investigation and now they have clearly obstructed justice, now the argument is the preside...

Telling "the new yorkers" jeffrey toobin tonight that even if there had been collusion between the trump campaign and russia thats not illegal, so its okay. another lawyer for the president, john dowd, who represents the president on russia matters making a much more sweeping case to axios.com today telling them the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the country and therefore by definition he cannot obstruct justice. there are a lot of people who have a contrary opinion on that, o...

B, the president cannot obstruct justice because hes the president. are either of those reasonable claims in your -- to your mind? >> well, the first, collusion is not a crime is not a reasonable claim. the second that the president is immune from prosecution is wrong but some have argued its not settled but certainly the first is a fantasy. there certainly is a statute that prohibits an american political campaign from essentially establishing a political alliance with a foreign government to w...

Made yesterday that he doesnt believe, its his assessment that the president cannot obstruct justice on his reading of the constitution, which many legal sclholars and experts disagree with. >> i want to ask you about something i picked up from these senior republicans. they suggested that once someone like mike flynn has flipped and has joined team america as the source put it, it is unknowable what bob mueller knows. so he may only know what mike flynn knows, but he may also know more than the...

You dont get to say that. because i was there, and the last sh mon14 months of my life been dealing with it. you dealt with it for 14 minutes and went on to be the president. he last week came out with thats not my voice on the tape. you cant say that. that is your voice. i was there. you were there. thats your voice on the tape. >> that was billy bush talking to stephen colbert last night. this morning there was bomb shell reporting to mike pences reaction to the tape including that he was cont...

Civilian world. military have a tendency to really absorb what their boss is. they tend to follow along. military is such a hierarchy culture, and i think mike was just seduced by donald trump. and i think unfortunately they didnt ruin his life that being the fbi. mike flynn made those choices and hes going to have to live with them. >> harold. >> harold ford, weve learned this morning that a u.n. diplomat, an american travelled to north korea, presumably to try to understand better the situatio...

And thank god for the fbi. you know, a lot of times people say to me after 37 years in the military, thank you for your service. i appreciate it. there are a lot of ways to serve this country. police, firemen, fbi agents and cia. to the fbi, i say keep clanking at donald trump like a tank. because we need to know the truth without fear or favor, we need to know the truth. i dont think the fbis reputation is in tatters at all, and i dont think most americans do either. >> its willie geist. i want...

I get slammed by people because they think that somehow we were too nice, three months before anybody voted. we were saying his muslim ban would stop me from ever voting for donald trump. i say, is this what jeremy looked like in 1933, or calling him a big ought in february 2016, he is disqualified to be president this republican party has gone the opposite direction three months before republicans voted. they said hes not qualified to be president of the united states. these republican versus m...

>> february something. >> you want to talk? >> i do. im going to talk about horse back riding. >> a new report says robert mueller has asked deutsche bank to release accounts about president trump and his family. >> can we set it up, mika? every banker we talked to in new york people running it, where we would ask them during the campaign, we would say, we would always ask, whats the deal with trump? where does he get his loans? does he go to russia? we were trying to figure it out during the ca...

Its still, how does a president lie like that and not get hammered? the press core, we need to know. >> i will read you a quote from then director comey july 2016, quote, we have no basis to conclude that hillary clinton lied to the fbi. i have no basis for concluding she was untruthful with us, from james comey when he was director of the fbi. >> the white house provided absolutely no evidence for the presidents rambling. we will not be distracted. okay. were just not going to be distracted and...