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John doud said the president cannot be an obstructer of justice because he is justice and jay secular saying it would not be a crime to interfere in the u.s. election because technically there is no crime called collusion. those climaim's from the president's lawyers flipped on what sounded like a laugh track in legal circles across the country but did mark an important moment in this presidency. the moment when the president's legal team stopped arguing that the president didn't obstruct justice or that he didn't collude with russia. they instead started arguing maybe the president did those ...

Process, not impeachment. impeachment has much wider latitude. it's not limited to what we normally think of as felonies, criminal offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors is ultimately subject to political judgment to a great degree, as congressman schiff referenced earlier. but i do think it would be very hard in the ordinary criminal justice system to find a president obstructing justice within the federal system. but, again, i agree with jeff, this is completely unresolved as a matter of existing case law in the united states. so we're in a no man's land from a legal perspective. but, again,...

General and kelly cord row she teaches lou georgetown university. >> can he obstruct justice, ken. >> the question of whether the president can be indicted for anything while owes president walks obstruction of justice, bang robbery anything is really unresolved. the the supreme court never addressed that. what is clear is that the congress and house of representatives can find that the president obstructed justice in an quichement proceeding. that's what the house of representatives found against bill clinton that's what the house jshdary committee found against richard nixon. john doud's poi...

Drafted that tweet and offered a defense that the president cannot obstruct justice because he has every right to express his view of any case. >> that claim drew howls of protests from critics and by late monday a white house lawyer ty cobb was down playing it telling "the washington post" the theory is not the president's official legal strategy. the president's lawyers intend to present a fact-based defense, not a mere legal defense. as for whether the president can in fact obstruct justice, it wo noting that articles of impeachment against clinton and nixon did include obstruction charges....

Include obstruction charges. >> we've also learned another white house lawyer told president trump in january he believed flynn had misled the fbi as well as vice president pence. that raises new questions about what the president knew when he urged thn fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation against flynn. >> the president says never happened. >> fbi director chris ray responding to the president's claim that the bureau's reputation is in tatters. ray, tending an agency-wide e-mail that reads base of the important of our mission are he we are entrusted with great power. we should wel...