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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...

This. it all comes on the heels of news that former trump chairman paul manafort is running into trouble with his bail release. now, prosecutors who initially supported manafort's release to house arrest now oppose it. saying manafort recently -- you got to listen to this. he recently tried to co-write an opinion piece. an op-ed recording his work in ukraine with an acquaintance believed to have russian intelligence ties. you cannot make this up. >> and more twists regarding that now infamous saturday morning tweet implying that president trump knew mike flynn lied to the fbi when flynn was fi...

Comments about, quote, the greatest witch hunt in u.s. political history. >> you cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire comey and his constitutional authority to tell the justice department who to investigate, who not to investigate. that's what thomas jefferson did, lincoln did, roosevelt did. we had presidents that clearly established that. >> the president's personal lawyer, john dowd, also insisted this morning, the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution's arti...

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...

Head of the fbi. he was crazy. a real nutjob. i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. and even though the president pushed back against any obstruction implications in june -- >> in the meantime, no collusion, no obstruction. >> reporter: the president's lawyers are now asserting a new 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 views of any case. this pushback by the president's lawyer that a president cannot obstruct justice, well, it's still an open q...