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Mueller's office in january arguing their client should not have to sit down with the special counsel. >> they say as president, president trump can grant pardons, fire an fbi director or end an investigation, quote, at any time and for any reason. >> joining us live is cnn reporter sarah westwood. what are you learning when you hear from the fallout of this letter being published? >> reporter: this letter represents a remarkable over the russian investigation and hand delivered to the special counsel's team in january and it lays out a detailed argument about why president trump should not ha...

Certainly robert mueller is going to be sitting down with and hearing their versions of the event as they occurred at the time. >> because these are people who are also very close to james comey when he was the fbi director, you look at what the white house is arguing, trump's lawyer argued earlier this month, the president cannot obstruct justice because he's the chief law enforcement officer under article ii. the president's lawyers say he had the right toleran do this, doesn't matter what he treats. >> it's not true. there are lots of examples of individuals within the federal government wh...

We don't know whether or not, you know, he has written a report or otherwise recounted what he was told by james comey, but we know this much, we know mueller is looking at obstruction of justice. we know that from the document request he sent to the white house, from witness interviews he's conducted, and i don't think any prosecutor could be looking at obstruction of justice without looking at the testimony of james comey and what we call corroborate, in other words, what can back up testimony of comey? so, comey and the president were together in a room, no one else was present, so you have...

Credit for writing trump's tweets until this one. trump's tweets are official statements, according to his own spokesman. >> are president trump's tweets considered official white house statements? >> well, the president is the president of the united states, so they're considered official statements by the president of the united states. >> they are considered official statements by the president of the united states. except for when they don't like what it says and they want to blame it on one of his attorneys for the first time in 3,000 tweets. he tried one other way unite today, saying, in...

Russia investigation this summer. his former campaign manager paul manafort is under house arrest. his attorney general had to recuse himself from all of this after questions about his own testimony under oath. his former national security adviser michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with kislyak. and president trump has continued to wage war on the press for what he calls fake news on russia. and if you think the white house doesn't have obstruction on its mind, there is this. the president's personal attorney in an interview with axios saying the president,...