Page 9 - Cannot Obstruct News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Position in the investigation to pardon him or give him the benefit of the doubt. so this really could bolster the obstruction case against him if he were to pardon him but it remains to be seen whether he'd actually do that. >> what about the president's lawyers meeting with special counsel bob mueller next week? neither the president or vice president is expected to attend those meetings. so what's the expectation to come from the meeting? >> well, they have been meeting or communicating with the lawyers for quite some time now. over the summer they had an ongoing correspondence with mueller...

And controversial defense. "the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution's article ii and has every right to express his view of any case." the claim echoed a defense offered earlier in the day on trump tv by alan der show withes. the suggestion from trump's lawyer the president was above the law was walked back by a different trump lawyer. "washington post" reports ty cobb, white house lawyer overseeing its handling of the russia investigation and who plays the good cop to dowd's bad cop, said the dershowitz/dowd theory was not t...

Everything correctly. >> the president's lawyer, john dowd, as you know, obviously, has been commenting in recent days due to the president's tweet about what he knew about general flynn. he says that the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the president. because he is the ultimate law enforcement officer in the united states of america. what's your response to that? >> the central lesson of watergate is that no one is above the law, not even the president. that's what the american people believe. that's what we have always believed. and keep in mind, there are no words in the cons...

Dowd claimed he drafted that tweet and offered another defense that the president cannot obstruct justice because, as chief law enforcement officer, he has every right to express his view of any case. >> that claim drew protests by critics and a white house lawyer ty bob down playing it. cobb said et' interesting as a technical legal issue by the lawyers intend to praes a fact-based offense. it is worth noting that articles of impeachment against richard nixon and bill clinton did include obstruction charges. >> we've also learned another white house lawyer told president trump in january he b...

Accusers, he would be going out on his terms. politicians held to a different standard. >> yeah, that's a problem. that's why you are hearing a lot of democrats behind the scenes, as i said before, saying we should have done something about it, and been more proactive, and particularly in the conyers case and the franken is a different case, and they are saying we should have made the republican party pay for this. >> these mixed messages on the legal strategy from trump and his personal lawyers on obstruction, and they are saying the president cannot obstruct justice here. is this a legal arg...