CNN's Jake Tapper asked Giuliani if presidential obstruction of justice is possible. Giuliani said it might involve a gun.

Rudy Giuliani on CNN

In an interview with President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on Sunday, CNN's Jake Tapper sought to get to the bottom of what President Trump did or did not say to fired FBI Director James Comey about the investigation of former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn. But Tapper aimed at bigger topics, too.

"Let me ask you a larger philosophical question," he asked Giuliani. "For the record: Do you think that a president of the United States, any president, can ever obstruct justice? Or do you think that's impossible, because the president's the executive in charge of the Justice Department?"

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.