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Constitutional challenges here. >> thats right. so, this memo is a top to bottom set of, you know, legal claims, factual claims, arguments why he didnt obstruct justice, couldnt have obstructed jus and so forth. but the one thats really breath taking and that makes all the rest of them not matter if its true is this vision of a president who wields absolute unrevealable control over the justice department, over the machinery of the federal law enforcement, as a result he can shutdown or director...

Time with this alabama senate race. >> phil rukcker, let me bring yu back to this question. the antics of the presidents legal team if you take the weekend gaffe, john dowd saying that the president -- not that the president didnt obstruct justice but the president cant obstruct justice because he saw alan dershowitz maybe see that on television. and then you take it through to some of the twists and turns of don jr. saying there was an attorney/client privilege between him and his father becaus...

John doud said the president cannot be an obstructer of justice because he is justice and jay secular saying it would not be a crime to interfere in the u.s. election because technically there is no crime called collusion. those climaims from the presidents lawyers flipped on what sounded like a laugh track in legal circles across the country but did mark an important moment in this presidency. the moment when the presidents legal team stopped arguing that the president didnt obstruct justice or...

Collusion between trump campaign and russia, even if it did take place wouldnt be illegal. there is no crime of collusion. there is a lot right now going on in the news, just in the muller investigation and russia scandal to the point where the muller investigation website has crashed. but with everything else going on, today will always be the day that the lawyers for the president of the united states abandoned their argument that the president didnt obstruct justice and instead started to a...

Crime there has to be a statute you claim is being violated, sekulow told me. there is not a statute that refers to criminal collusion. there is no crime of collusion." theres a lot going on right now in the news. theres a lot going on right now just in the mueller investigation and in the russia scandal. to the point where the mueller investigation website has crashed. but with everything else thats going on, today will always be the day that the lawyers for the president of the united states a...

Will show trump didnt collude and didnt obstruct. dragnets joe friday was known for his no-nonsense approach, a style captured in this parody. >> why are you asking me all these questions for? >> just routine, maam, we just wanting to get the facts. >> just the facts. and that is the context from cobb saying this will be a fact-based exoneration and dismissing alan dershowitz argument as an academic discussion and thats a smackdown of the other trump lawyer, john dowd, who is trumps assertive co...

Spotlight for tweetgate thing claimed that quote, the president cannot obstruct justice because hes the chief law enforcement officer of the united states. not a defense saying trump didnt obstruct justice, would be a blank check saying he can obstruct is anytime he wants because the president cant commit that crime. that argument has a terrible track record, most famously advanced by only president forced from office whose impeachment articles included obstruction. >> what in a sense youre sayi...

Donald trump have met with the special counsel to lay out their legal argument for why the president did not obstruction of justice. theyve met several times with robert mueller and submitted memos arguing that the president didnt obstruct justice by firing former fbi chief comey. one memo laid out the case he has the authority under the contusion to hire and fire as he sees fit and didnt obstruct justice when he fired comey. another why comey would make a unsuitable witness, that hes unreliable...

And submitted memos arguing that the president didnt obstruct justice by firing former fbi chief james comey and calling into question mr. comeys reliability as a potential witness, people familiar with the matter said. one memo submitted to mr. mueller by the presidents legal team in june laid out the case that mr. trump has the inherent authority under the constitution to hire and fire as he sees fit, and therefore didnt obstruct justice when he fired mr. comey. another memo submitted the same...

Russia investigation have made a case to the special prosecutor, robert mueller, that the president did not commit obstruction of justice when he fired fbi director james comey. the journal reports, lawyers for donald trump have met several times with special counsel robert mueller in recent months and submitted memos arguing that the president didnt obstruct justice by firing former fbi chief james comey and calling into question mr. comeys reliability as a potential witness, people familiar wi...