The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Crime. Colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The hacking is the crime. The president its a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to President Trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. He was never involved in intimate Business Relationship with donald trump. The president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. All things Michael Chone and hes doing quite a lot of talk ing. Jake. Jeff, thanks so much. Lets talk to our experts. Laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. I dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. Start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The president didnt hack. Before we get to the moving of the goal posts going on here,
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if they re looking at his tweets, it s done. obstruction by tweet on a president of the united states? i mean, first of all, the white house s official position is that tweets from president trump who uses twitter like no one else in presidential history, that they are official statements and we have talked about this before. potentially and official statement can be obstruction of justice. not saying it is in this case, but it can be. well look, i think this is always a battle the bhous has internationally about what president trump s tweets mean and what they don t mean. giuliani is like a bombastic surrogate. he s clearly has no idea what s happening. is not really speaking for the white house. isn t really speaking for the investigation. so whether trump s tweets should be part of the obstruction case, i guess that s for mueller to decide. but they re presidential statements. as an fbi official, do you think a tweet or a presidential