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The president's account. that got a lot of attention, tweeting for the president. now, the lawyer says, i'm out of the tweeting business, i did not mean to break news. but in the meantime, jon, the president's lawyers are going with a new legal strategy tonight when it comes to obstruction of justice? >> reporter: the president's lawyer is arguing that the president, because of the nature of his job as the head of the executive branch, cannot, by definition, commit obstruction of justice. david, it's a variation of nixon's line that if the president does it, it's not illegal. >> jon karl at th...

House told the press that tweet was dictated by the president's lawyer, john dowd. so, it wasn't the president's words that the president was tweeting out after all. that twitter post created so much controversy originally because it seemed to signify the first time the president has acknowledged publicly that he knew flynn lied to the fbi before mr. trump fired him last february. that raised a new set of questions about whether the president's actions amount to obstruction of justice. here's what the washington post reported about the white house reaction. quote: a person close to the white h...

What obstruction of justice is. that's the problem for the president. and i just want to point out, john and poppy, that he continues to make the case for mueller himself. from the get-go this entire thing is unrelated to russia in the sense that it exists completely independently and completely self-created. >> right. you can obstruct justice independent of whether or not russia tried to meddle the election, how you behave about that investigation, which may now be the subject of an investigation. john dowd, though, the president's attorney, is telling axios this morning that president can't ...

That, himself. she doesn't understand that special counsel is going to be able to find out if john dowd was e-mailing, if he was texting, if he was calling before the president tweeted things out and it's just like, how stupid of them they they we are. we all know that dowd didn't dictate that. we all know that a lawyer, a personnel of law school of three days would not have used that language. it was the president. he admitted to obstruction of justice and you know that because now even dowd is going, presidents can't commit obstruction of justice. >> we've never known the president on twitte...

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