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Sort of being able to create his own version of reality. and i think what we've seen through the first 150 days of this administration, is a guy trying to do the same thing, and increasingly frustrated at his inability to get everyone to sort of see things the way he did. we saw it on the very first day or second day of his tenure in the white house, when he sent sean spicer to the briefing room to get mad at the press for saying that his crowd wasn't as big as barack obama's, even though his crowd wasn't as big as barack obama's, and it eroded his credibility from the get-go. there's always b...

He's stopping the investigation. nobody talked about obstruction of justice. you cannot have obstruction of justice when the president exercises his constitutional authority to pardon, his constitutional authority to fire the director of the fbi or his constitutional authority to tell the director of the fbi who to prosecute, who not to prosecute. so let's get out of the weeds and let's look at the big constitutional question. >> but let me just ask you, professor, just to be clear, according to director comey the president told him, i quote, i hope you can let this it go, discussing michael f...

Director about letting it go, meaning a probe into his fired national security adviser. i replied only that, quote, he is a good guy, parenthesis. i had a positive exchange in dealing with mike flynn when he was director of the intelligence agency during my beginning of the fbi. then he goes on to say, i did not say i would, quote, let this go. then he goes on to say, the president returned briefly to the problem of leaks. i then got up and left the door by the grandfather clock making my way through a very large group of people waiting there, including mr. priebus. i immediately prepared an u...

Released that i had by james comb? what's the most potentially dangerous aspect of it? >> well, if it's to be believed, and obviously it's only one person's version, but if it's to be believed, i think it does lay out a case of obstruction of justice against the president, and the key moment is the february 14th meeting in the oval office where they discuss the investigation of michael flynn which as fbi director comey is in charge of, and the president asks him to let it go, to drop it. it's more than inappropriate, and you can tell that the president knows it's inappropriate because he asks ...

It's kind of like i hope it doesn't rain tomorrow. that's what comey's testimony ends, it's probably not obstruction. >> heather: legally, what does the objection of justice statute require legally? >> it requires proof that somebody actually tried to influence, impede, or instruct justice. it also requires one more word, it's called corruptly and that word has special meaning in the law. the supreme court has addressed it. they define it as, will put it on the screen, wrongful, immoral, depraved, or evil. again, hoping that somebody can let it go is probably too ambiguous to constitute a corr...