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Donald trump himself. you see there, who argued mccabe was racing to retire with pension benefits. mccabe losing effectively those benefits because of the doj firing over an alleged lack of candor for his conversations with the press about hillary clinton. this week, donald trump is blasting mccabe's old boss james comey and calling for him to go to jail. so this is very serious what we're reporting here at the top of our show tonight, what's happening right now. the president of the united states, attacking law enforcement, calling for the jailing of a witness to his own potential obstruction...

The president's personal attorney in an interview with axios saying the president, "cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution's article 2 and has every right to express his view of any case." so here we are. let's get right to cnn contributor john dean, former nixon white house counsel, and robert ray, former whitewater independent counsel. it's a lot to keep up with. >> it gets worse. >> on a monday, it's a firehose and continues to dribble throughout the week. do you believe there's evidence, john dean, that the president obstructed justic...

In existence. there was a conspiracy within the white house to use that slush fund to silence and alter testimony of witnesses. that's, you know, prime example of obstruction of justice. i think what, though, john dowd and the white house, what they're saying, what they mean is that the president's decision to fire the director of the fbi, james comey, which he's entirely permitted to do and has complete power to do under article 2 of the constitution, cannot, itself, be an act of obstruction of justice and the analogy would be to the nixon era, nobody during the nixon era claimed that richard...