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Tweet on saturday, i sure as heck hope the president is getting better legal advice from these guys than he's getting pr advice. to me that was a horrific two days coming out of the president's legal team that did not help this situation at all. >> paul, as i mentioned, the president's lawyer john dowd telling axios, quote, the president cannot obstruct justice because he's the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution's article ii and has his rightly to express his view of any case. president clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice. >> and never claimed the constitution im...

That they appear to be willing to cede these facts that he did take actions to shut down the investigation, even if so, that is not obstruction of justice is a dangerous argument for this instance and because if the president cannot obstruct justice in blocking this investigation, it means he can fire bob mueller. there's nothing that be done about it. it's a troubling thing for them to argue. >> i can see them arguing what's happened so far doesn't amount to obstruction of justice. they have every right to make that argument. to argue he can never be accused of obstruction because he's presid...

Sally yates was clear. she didn't tell the white house that flynn lied to the fbi. she refused that answer that question. for the president to know at that time that flynn lied to the fbi, it wasn't because the fbi had told him or the justice department. he only could know because mike flynn told him, and that gets you into an entire conspiracy to impede and obstruct this investigation, and i think a pretty damning moment for the president. >> john dow, he was baffle heg said he wrote that tweet. on his face, that appears to be false. he also claimed the president cannot obstruct justice becau...

President did not obstruct justice. now it has turned into the president cannot obstruct justice which there does seem to be consensus among legal experts that the president can, indeed, obstruct justice. what does this argument mean coming from the president's legal team? >>. >> thanks for having me back. >> of course. >> what it means is -- what it means is they are grasping at straws. after the flynn plea and the -- letting it slip this weekend in a tweet that the president knew, and whether it came from the president or his lawyer or i believe it was a collaboration, they tipped their hand...

Spotlight for tweetgate thing claimed that quote, the president cannot obstruct justice because he's the chief law enforcement officer of the united states. not a defense saying trump didn't obstruct justice, would be a blank check saying he can obstruct is anytime he wants because the president can't 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 you're saying is there are certain situations and houston planner, that part of it one of them, where the p...