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Contributor john dean. great expertise you can lend in this situation, john. and i wonder having in the position you were in, why do you think as you look at ty cobb saying what you are hearing from ty cobb and what you are hearing from the president's personal lawyer, very different statements. you are hearing from ty cobb this idea that the legal team is going to present a fact based argument. and then you've heard now from john doud what he has said the president cannot obstruct justice. why are we hearing two different things? >> well, one explanation could be they have different clients. ...

Shifting legal strategy. he opened with a tweet saying he knew michael flynn lied to the fbi before he fired him. an assertion that raises questions about obstruction of justice. trump's personal lawyer john doud claimed he drafted that tweet then 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 howls of protests from critics and by late monday a white house lawyer, ty cobb was down playing it telling the washington the theory is not the president's official legal s...

>> i am reading this as i just said as conflicting accounts from various people associated with this investigation as to what the president knew, who told him and when he knew it. is that how you see it, that there are a few different conflicting stories as to how much the president was in the loop here? >> yes and actually, i think there are sort of three gradations of accounts not all of them coming from the white house. one from the justice department, the acting at that point the acting attorney general sally yates. the white house counsel, don mcgahn and the president's personal lawyer jo...

Campaign has colluded with russia and it would be okay for the president himself to have obstructed justice. one lawyer telling jeffrey toobin tonight, if there had been collusion between the trump campaign and russia, that's not illegal so it's okay. another lawyer for the president john who represents the president on russia matters making a much more sweeping case to axios telling him the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the country and therefore by definition, he cannot obstruct justice. there are a lot of people who have a contrary opinion on that, obviously. the question...

Was that his motive to obstruct a probe? >> so it's true muller is looking at that, however, this tweet storm, this event with so at that, however, this tweet storm, this event with the president tweeting something drafted by john doud is not the single piece of information upon which an obstruction charge could hinge. it's just too unimportant ultimately. there would have to be other pieces of evidence if someone was going to bring an obstruction charge and just to remind everybody, don mcgahn, the person at the center in a way of this story, the person receiving information from the attorney...