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So this is feeding very heavily into this obstruction argument. we are not lawyers. what we're learning now just publicly what we know, not even the private stuff that muller may be uncovering, publicly starting to play more into this obstruction argument. >> this is a pattern here, pretty strong. the president seems to think that he's running a business operation. he has people working for them and he calls up his employees, fire them when he wants, he thinks. he calls up the head of the fbi, calls up the national security and director of national intelligence, national security agency, it's ...

Public opinion would kick trump out of office so quickly here. and the broader obstruction argument, that is one of the key things that the trump team is laying their hat on is, look, this guy, in the firing of comey, was doing what is in the scope of his job and there are -- yes, perhaps there are thin arguments to say there might be obstruction, but by and large, if you hold a president accountable criminally for things that are well within the scope of his job, it opens up a much bigger challenge for aulll elected officials and future presidents. >> this is something that hasn't been tested...

Example, what was the purpose of your may 12, 2017 tweet, that was the tweet in which he said to comey you better hope there are no tapes. and then he said what was the purpose of your september and october statements including tweets regarding james comey, and what was the purpose of your july 2017 tweet regarding mr. sessions? so, you know, it's very clear that if they're going to make an obstruction argument, and we don't know if they will, they'd have to piece together -- it's tough. you guys the lawyers. it's tough, but they'd have to piece together some kind of mosaic that went to trump'...