it was phrased and how much the president pushed hard for this, it could become part of an obstruction probe. >> reporter: i think that's right. the reason this is important, obviously the president has said repeatedly, as he did again on twitter today, there is no collusion. that's why there's all this attention on these other issues, because they couldn't prove the collusion here. who knows whether they do or don't find collusion, but there does appear, based on this reporting as you confirmed by our colleagues here on nbc news, there appears increasingly to be serious questions about whether the president did obstruct justice. as the reporting goes, the president in effect pushed don mcgann, his white house counsel, to lobby jeff sessions not to recuse himself. the president was angry, he was furious after the fact. that in effect he said he wanted an attorney general who is more like rfa to his brother jfk. like eric holder to president obama, basically someone who was allied and had an allegiance to him. beyond that some of the other