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Director that could be determined to be an act of obstruction of justice, i gather you agree with the president's lawyers, why? >> i agree with the president's lawyers. made the same case to you last december. it's simple. it's not that the president cannot obstruct justice, while the president is commercing core constitutional powers of his office, like firing people, hiring people, pardoning people, telling people what to do, he cannot possibly be engaged in obstruction because to allow congress to pass statutes that hold him accountable criminally here, in fact, would impede ability to func...

Stated by numerous legal scholars, i have the absolute right to pardon myself, but why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong? why if the president has done nothing wrong would he not want to say so and agree to sit down with an interview with the special council? not so fast says trump's attorney rudy giuliani. >> this is the reason you don't let the president testify. our recollection keeps changing or we're not asked a question, somebody makes an assumption. in my case, i made an assumption, then we corrected it, and i got it right out as soon as it happened. i think that's what hap...

Depends on the time of day, i guess, what day -- >> honestly. >> you get all kinds of answers when you ask things of the white house, right? i mean, we had that statement multiple statements from the white house about that statement aboard air force one, that he dictated, did he not dictate and that that letter they sent to the special counsel's office in january, turns out,yeah, he did dictate it. so, i think we're getting about as much accuracy and consistency with rudy giuliani as from the president or from the white house generally. >> not a high bar at this point. s.v., thank you for comi...

Legal side i wouldn't -- i would say, you know, if i'm going to sit there and testify or sit and speak to robert mueller on a few specific issues that he could talk to legal tea beforehand. rob: let's talk about the memo that "the new york times" got a hold of, here are points from that that the president cannot be compel today testify, the president cannot obstruct justice and has authority over federal investigations, a letter from months ago now, wendy, democrats take this as threatening, tell us why. >> i think it is very threatening and the president and legal team that if the president d...

Heather: so the president's lawyers sent 20-page letter to robert mueller, his office and it was leaked go, figure, but let's take a look at some of the points made in the legal team memo thatotus cannot be compel todayestify, cannot obstruct justice and has authority over federal investigations, are all those things true? >> to be honest it depends who you ask, it depends what legal expert you talk to especially during this time you talk that some are one way or the other in the political heat of 2018, but i think the honest ones that don't have any sort of bias would tell us it depends. we d...