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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...

Process, not impeachment. impeachment has much wider latitude. its not limited to what we normally think of as felonies, criminal offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors is ultimately subject to political judgment to a great degree, as congressman schiff referenced earlier. but i do think it would be very hard in the ordinary criminal justice system to find a president obstructing justice within the federal system. but, again, i agree with jeff, this is completely unresolved as a matter of existi...

General and kelly cord row she teaches lou georgetown university. >> can he obstruct justice, ken. >> the question of whether the president can be indicted for anything while owes president walks obstruction of justice, bang robbery anything is really unresolved. the the supreme court never addressed that. what is clear is that the congress and house of representatives can find that the president obstructed justice in an quichement proceeding. thats what the house of representatives found agains...

Drafted that tweet and offered a defense that the president cannot obstruct justice because he has every right to express his view of any case. >> that claim drew howls of protests from critics and by late monday a white house lawyer ty cobb was down playing it telling "the washington post" the theory is not the presidents official legal strategy. the presidents lawyers intend to present a fact-based defense, not a mere legal defense. as for whether the president can in fact obstruct justice, it...

Include obstruction charges. >> weve also learned another white house lawyer told president trump in january he believed flynn had misled the fbi as well as vice president pence. that raises new questions about what the president knew when he urged thn fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation against flynn. >> the president says never happened. >> fbi director chris ray responding to the presidents claim that the bureaus reputation is in tatters. ray, tending an agency-wide e-mail that r...

Contributor john dean. great expertise you can lend in this situation, john. and i wonder having in the position you were in, why do you think as you look at ty cobb saying what you are hearing from ty cobb and what you are hearing from the presidents personal lawyer, very different statements. you are hearing from ty cobb this idea that the legal team is going to present a fact based argument. and then youve heard now from john doud what he has said the president cannot obstruct justice. why ar...

Shifting legal strategy. he opened with a tweet saying he knew michael flynn lied to the fbi before he fired him. an assertion that raises questions about obstruction of justice. trumps personal lawyer john doud claimed he drafted that tweet then offered another defense that the president cannot obstruct justice because as chief law enforcement officer he has every right to express his view of any case. >> that claim drew howls of protests from critics and by late monday a white house lawyer, ty...

>> i am reading this as i just said as conflicting accounts from various people associated with this investigation as to what the president knew, who told him and when he knew it. is that how you see it, that there are a few different conflicting stories as to how much the president was in the loop here? >> yes and actually, i think there are sort of three gradations of accounts not all of them coming from the white house. one from the justice department, the acting at that point the acting atto...

Campaign has colluded with russia and it would be okay for the president himself to have obstructed justice. one lawyer telling jeffrey toobin tonight, if there had been collusion between the trump campaign and russia, thats not illegal so its okay. another lawyer for the president john who represents the president on russia matters making a much more sweeping case to axios telling him the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the country and therefore by definition, he cannot obstru...

Was that his motive to obstruct a probe? >> so its true muller is looking at that, however, this tweet storm, this event with so at that, however, this tweet storm, this event with the president tweeting something drafted by john doud is not the single piece of information upon which an obstruction charge could hinge. its just too unimportant ultimately. there would have to be other pieces of evidence if someone was going to bring an obstruction charge and just to remind everybody, don mcgahn, t...