but we do know that it happened and it happened in january. again, this means that when the president allegedly asked james comey to go easy on flynn, he may have known or at least had reason to believe that flynn had committed a felony. that means this tweet on saturday could provide additional evidence he obstructed justice which may explain why the white house, especially the president's personal attorney, john dowd, has been doing damage control regarding that individual tweet. dowd first saying that the part in the tweet referring to lying to the fbi wasn't a new admission but instead merely paraphrasing what was in white house attorney ty cobb's statement about general flynn's guilty plea. there was another explanation. dowd said that he, not the president, was the one who wrote the tweet, acknowledging it was sloppily worded. today the he didn't write it narrative seemed to have been put aside. the new narrative isn't only that president trump didn't obstruct justice but to borough from richard nixon that a president cannot obstruct justice. mr. dowd telling axios, quote,