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>> raising new questions about what the president knew when he urged then fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation. something by the way the president says never happened. >> let's bring in julian zeli r zelizer. let's begin with the president's legal strategy. and i'm going to say legal strategy with i don't know legal strategy? what is it here? because it's confusing. >> well, the legal strategy seems to be to make a nixonian claim that the president has total control of the executive branch and thus the president cannot obstruct justice and there are many critics instantly pushing b...

Mere and jim bash, thank you. the party of roy moore, the president delivered a full throated endorsement of moore. now the gop jumps back into the alabama race. and next up, a legal break down on the claim of one of the president's lawyers that the president cannot obstruct justice because he's the president. that and more. we're just getting started on a monday night. we don't know. dozens. all right! let's teach these freaks some manners! good luck out there, captain! thanks! but i don't need luck, i have skills... i don't have my keys. (on intercom) all hands. we are looking for the capt...

And it tells us why the president is going back in. why the rnc is going back in. and while even though roy moore may come to washington and may not be accepted in polite circles, he may even have some power, and you are seeing a shift in the rhetoric among republicans on capitol hill like john cornyn, others who only weeks ago were saying unequivocally that roy moore needed to step aside. now saying this is the will of the alabama people. there may be some ethics investigation, but we're a long ways from where we were a few weeks ago. i think as it always does in politics, it comes down to a ...

He wouldn't detail the specifics but said the president did not give him ironclad commitment to extending the stopgap spending bill. about today, the president will be hosting lunch at the white house with senate republicans. that's followed up by a session with some business owners, business leaders about this topic of tax cuts specifically. it comes as the house republicans have taken this an important step toward reconciling their bill with the senate's version. it was really nearly derailed by this dramatic political stunt. more than a dozen members of meadow's freedom caucus holding back ...

Name of john dowd, arguing a president cannot obstruct justice because in his words he's the country's chief law enforcement officer under the constitution's article 2 and that he has every right to express his view of any case. but then overnight we heard from the white house, ty cobb again, distancing himself from that argument telling nbc news the following. i expect a fact based exoneration that does not require that level of legal analysis. there is no strategy of which i'm aware to rely boldly on the proclamation that obstruction is always impossible with regard to a president. hallie? >...