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Story may have changed. >> this couldn't have been a good day for president trump's lawyers to hear these freewheeling comments from donald trump. >> it shows a real pattern of trump trying to change the trajectory of this investigation, and that's what mueller is looking at for obstruction of justice. >> about 41 days passed between donald trump's tweet suggesting he taped his conversations with jim comey and trump's concession that there are no tapes. much time was spent on those potential tapes, a reminder of how the trump presidency can feel like a national version of candy crush, wasting ...

Wanted to make sure that the truth came out. and by talking about something like tapes made people have to -- it made comey in particular think to himself, i better be honest. i better tell the truth about the circumstances regarding the situation. >> i better tell the truth. is that now what the white house thinks comey did? because comey testified that trump inappropriately pressed him for loyalty, said he should be investigated for obstruction, and that he wrongly interfered with the flynn inquiry. trump's immediate reaction was that some of comey's statements under oath were not true. >> s...

Seven hours in two hearings, taking some adversarial and difficult questions from 34 different senators. keep that record in mind as the president's spokesperson doubled down on the idea that a false assertion, there might be tapes, was offered in service of some larger truth. >> i think the president made it very clear that he wanted the truth to come out. he wanted everyone to be honest about this, and he wanted to get to the bottom of it. i think he succeeded in doing that. the reality is, is that he wanted to make sure that the truth came out. and by talking about something like tapes made...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what more do you need to convict this man of obstruction of justice? >> e.j. dionne, what more do you need? >> i don't need that much. i think what's striking as nick says is that when the first talk about obstruction came up, there were a lot of people saying, well, you can't really easily make an obstruction case. you need to prove intent. 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 hav...

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 the flynn investigation when comey didn't drop the flynn investigation, he then fired comey. and on top of it, he also, in between those two events, he asked dan coats and admiral rogers to drop -- to try and put an end to the investigation. so you've got now five acts of obstruction of justice. you've got the president of the uni...