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And that was definitely not part of sort of the pre-agreed upon message of the white house. but there is nothing those aides can do to keep him away from his twitter. >> frank figliuzzi, if you're looking at all that's been uncovered by phil rucker and his colleagues and others, and you're looking at new revelations, what remits the greater threat to the trump presidency? >> i'm keying in on this obstruction angle. if cohen is found to be correct, that trump knew about the russian meeting, then let's look at what happened after that. deny, deny, craft a document that says it was about adoption...

Didn't collude, so i didn't have any exposure to that. he probably feels relatively comfortable on that and has been reassured that on the obstruction angle, he's not likely to get charged for a variety of reasons, or at least feels like it's not so cut and dried. so when the michael cohen thing happens, now all of a sudden this is expanding way past the campaign, way past what his obstructive behavior has been during his presidency. now it's into his personal finances. so that's when the pivot really occurred, so now he's attacking the entire investigation, and i think he's essentially just s...

If there are charges out of the obstruction angle we might see it just before labor day. but i predict he will follow the general practice of not interfere being with elections. >> i know you are going to be leaving me after this block. while i have you, i want to ask with regard to the investigating the fbi and doj to launch this investigation into this possible fbi informant, we know attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. does this mean he would also have to recuse himself from the possible investigation like this one that the president is asking the do...

Today in the briefing, the press briefing, kept repeating, doesn't need an excuse, president can fire the head of the fbi. >> right. that's just not going to cut it. right now, we've got two against one, right? the original version was, oh, it's because of how you handle the clinton investigation. >> right. >> then they quickly -- the president, himself, said it's about the russia investigation. here juligiuliani confirmed tha narrative, again. when we looked at those obstruction questions that got leaked out from "the new york times," those were all about what was your intent when you fired f...

His e-mails. >> they have been monitoring him. >> right. >> so that's ongoing. >> so, you know, you've worked, obviously, on these sorts of things in the district. is this the biggest threat to the president? >> well, i would say so. for this reason. mueller's investigation, first and foremost is a counterintelligence investigation. it's got this important component of whether there was collusion in russia's effort to interfere in the election. it's got this obstruction angle, which is legally very debatable, but it's a counter intelligence investigation, first and foremost, which means russia...