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But now he is donald trump's most public and most audacious defender. >> he didn't do anything wrong. he didn't obstruct. >> okay. >> and we're willing to sit there and argue that out with the special counsel, if he has, you know, an open mind about it. >> he also was interesting in this category, defender doesn't really do it justice. it's defender and spokesman. and i don't think there's anyone in more danger of donald trump's whiplash than his spokesman. >> our third category, i think, should be the men and women who we ask every afternoon on your broadcast. >> every day. >> every night on ...

President trump actually obstructed justice because he tweeted out his opposition to all that has happened with no evidence and criticizing what is a witch hunt. in other words, telling the truth. take a look. s >> he's basically sort of delegitimizing our system of government. >> maybe this is the beginning of a new saturday night massacre and one has to wonder whetheron mr. trump is feeling the pressure of the manafort trial. >> it looks like he may very well have obstructed justice in this particular case. that's why i find it particularly ironic that he seems to be continuing to try tt obs...

That they believe is not authorized. >> i look at the obstruction part of the argument this way. he didn't obstruct. can win it on the faction, can't be indicted or questioned because it interferes with the president. >> i no one is given absolute power by our constitution. >> the whole idea that he can't be charged with obstruction of justice, the last time that ever happened in this country was when we were ruled by king george. >> so we want to break down right now the legal issues involved in three specific areas that the memo addresses. is the president above the law when it comes to obst...

Defense might be and how the president might answer questions. number one, and we played the sound before. we don't need to play it again. on the issue of obstruction, the president -- people says obstruction because i was fight back. samuel, you're a lawyer. is there a fighting back exemption to the issue of obstruction of justice? >> no. if the president is talking about his public statements that there was no collusion or he didn't obstruct, fine, he's entitled to fight back in that sense and he has been. that's not what the obstruction investigation is about. nobody thinks it's about that....

Probably would have organized it differently. i look at the obstruction part of the argument this way, he didn't obstruct. we could win it on the facts. might want to say he has very broad powers and s whowants to r article 2 has a big, big burden of showing there is no innocent explanation for what he did. they can't do that. i would like to convince them to exercise some constitutional restraint here. >> that memo centers on 16 areas ofuiry related to michael flynn, to james comey and to the president's son, donald trump jr. the document raises some questions about testimony he gave to congr...