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Say maybe nothing matters. but that's not actually the case. these things do matter. and while trump's approach here, call it vibrado or lies, may be designed to exhaust and obscure, and petty fog, it's notable his approach failed first because comey offered thorough testimony that even republican senators praised. second, because comey flipped the script on trump and basically punked him over the tapes saying if they existed, they would exonerate comey. >> look, i've seen the tweet about tapes. lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> third, trump's fetweet faile because it drew a formal demand to r...

Telling "the washington post" the president holds a conference call on russia every morning at 6:30 a.m. quote, part strategy consultation, part presidential venting session during which trump's lawyers and public relations gurus take turns reviewing the latest headlines with him. they also devise their plan for battling his avowed enemies, the special counsel leading the russia investigation, the fake news media chronicling, and in some instances, the president's own justice department overseeing the probe. let's take stock of all of this with nick akerman, a former assistant watergate prosec...

What you've had is the president laying out intent in public today, saying he was trying to get comey to tell the truth although as you pointed out, there were truths that comey said that trump denied were true. so you have that. you've got the threat to fire -- first the try and influence comey and then the firing itself. and now you've got the attack on mueller, where there is clearly an effort to build up the idea that mueller is biased, that, you know, god forbid, he's hiring people who made contributions to democrats. so he has a political track where he's trying to create pressure, and t...

Amounted to nothing less than witness tampering. the statute that's involved is section 1512 of the united states code, and i'll just read from it because it's spot on. whoever knowingly engages in misleading conduct -- which we clearly have here. he misled everybody for six weeks about these tapes. -- toward another person with intent to influence the testimony of any person in an official proceeding commits a crime. i mean it couldn't be any clearer. this is just part of his entire obstruction of justice that he has been constantly perpetrating since the time he asked comey to forget about t...

News, trump says maybe he misled everyone about the tapes to shape comey's testimony. >> when he found out that i -- you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, i think his story may have changed. i mean you'll have to take a look at that because then he has to tell what actually took place at the events. and my story didn't change. my story was always a straight story. my story was always the truth. but you'll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed. but i did not tape it. >> it was a smart way to make s...