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It's baffling to see this stumbling by the trump legal team continually. >> it's incredible. >> joyce, if just hypothesizing that doud is right and that he did dictate this tweet and it wasn't the president's words. does that matter? >> well, that's an interesting question. because we've now seen judges in the muslim ban line of cases hold trump accountable for his tweets say thag are public and official states. but i think it goes a little bit beyond that. we're talking about the president of the united states. and when he takes words written by someone else and puts them out there as his own...

Sally yates was clear. she didn't tell the white house that flynn lied to the fbi. she refused that answer that question. for the president to know at that time that flynn lied to the fbi, it wasn't because the fbi had told him or the justice department. he only could know because mike flynn told him, and that gets you into an entire conspiracy to impede and obstruct this investigation, and i think a pretty damning moment for the president. >> john dow, he was baffle heg said he wrote that tweet. on his face, that appears to be false. he also claimed the president cannot obstruct justice becau...

Their case against flynn? >> it's evidence. it's evidence against him. it's the best evidence of his state of mind. that's why i think we saw his lawyer john doud jump in so quickly in an effort to say it wasn't the president's tweet. if it is, in fact, his own comment, it's really an admission of guilt, and something that could be very powerfully used against him. of course, with the kacaveat th we don't expect to see a sitting president indicted. there's typically more for an impeachment proceeding. >> what do you think, senator? >> well, the attempt by john doud to take the fall here is rea...

Are there. but i just want to say this, the president may have the power to pardon people. but if he doesn't, to use the professor's term, for the wrong motive for the purpose of obstruction of justice and to prevent justice from being done, then it's a crime. it could be an obstruction of justice. because the president has the power to do it, doesn't mean that he can't be criminal. >> let many ask you about that, we're hearing from the white house that one of the president's counsel offered the tweet as the president just said. is this plausible deniability if we are saying here, perhaps the ...

The russians. to state the obvious, you don't want your national security adviser compromised with the russians. >> and then this, the bombshell testimony of james comey one day before appearing in front of the senate intelligence committee, the now former fbi director revealed that the president asked him to let the flynn matter go just one day after michael flynn was fired. >> i don't think it is for me to say whether the conversation i had with the president was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that's a conclusion i'm sure the special counsel...