president s lawyer john dod says he wrote that tweet, not the president and insists he mangled, although it hasn t been corrected or taken down. whether you think the president tried to obstruct justice or not, the president s legal team argues it doesn t matter. dowd, the lawyer, arg gurs the president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution and has every right to express his view of any case. it s been the view of the house of representatives that a president absolutely can obstruct justice, articles of impeachment against richard nixon said he obstructed justed, against bill clinton, obstructed and impeded administration of justice. end of the day, those aren t legal standards per se, political ones. neither nixon more clinton was convicted by congress on the charges. nixon resigned before it ever came to it. the question remains. did the president obstruct justice and can the president