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Represented bill clinton when he was sued by paula jones. bob, as one of the few people any this world who have represented a president facing a high stakes interrogation ultimately, what do you make of these questions? >> well, its very clear when you read the questions that theyre trying to, mr. mueller is trying to get into the head of the president. hes trying to determine what was his intent and what was his knowledge. thats the thrust of all the questions. >> what do you see as the risks f...

Investigation. there are questions about, for instance, the trump tower meeting and the trump familys relationship to russian oligarchs, kushners efforts to set up a russian back channel and roger stones outreach to wikileaks to the campaign, one question in particular suggests mueller may know a lot more than the rest of us. "what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" thats kind of collusiony. there...

Mueller, they want to make sure they handle it the right way. if this was perhaps part of the presidents attempts to negotiate in public with mueller for the terms of his interview or whether it was a trial balloon to see whether republicans were going to be willing to still defend mueller. that would be an open question. you have republicans backing legislation to try to protect him. they were vocal about it. they had stepped back. this was a test for the president to say, hey, maybe i could do...

>> what do you mean by that? >> well, hell answer a question and then theyll say but what about this? what about that? and my guess is there is not a person the president, who can be really prepared for an interrogation by very sophisticated prosecutors. >> i want to circle back to something you said. you read these questions as showing that mueller has a lot of evidence. why is that? >> well, the thrust of the questions assumes certain facts. and they say many times what did you think about the...

Special counsel. i refer you to the presidents personal attorney. >> heres an important point. there is no reason to believe this list of 49 questions that was acquired by the "new york times" that that was a list the president is comprehensive. muellers investigators shared them with the presidents legal team in early march to discuss the terms of a presidential interview. presidents lawyers reportedly wrote the questions down and then than document was provided to the times by a person outside...

Concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. oh, see. you have a madeup phony crime, collusion that never existed and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. nice. first of all, the leak appears to have originated with the presidents own legal team. more on that in a minute. second the list includes over a dozen questions about collusion. nevertheless, white house officials got in on the act too insisting theres really nothin...

Oligarchs, kushners efforts to set up a russian back channel and roger stones outreach to wikileaks to the campaign, one question in particular suggests mueller may know a lot more than the rest of us. "what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" thats kind of collusiony. theres no public information to date on any such outreach by manafort or the campaign. asked today why the president lied about the...

Hes a decorated vietnam veteran and former fbi director. why does the president keep saying this? >> well, hes attacking muellers team because this is a political fight. there is obviously some legal components to this, but in the end, this is a political fight. if you look at what the clinton team did with ken starr, james cargo came out and declared war on starr and the investigation and dick morris wrote an entire game plan for how they were going after ken starr. they went after al domada wh...

The investigation. hes a decorated vietnam veteran and former fbi director. why does the president keep saying this? >> well, hes attacking muellers team because this is a political fight. there is obviously some legal components to this, but in the end, this is a political fight. if you look at what the clinton team did with ken starr, james cargo came out and declared war on starr and the investigation and dick morris wrote an entire game plan for how they were going after ken starr. they went...

His eagerness to sit down for an interview for the very first time attacking mueller by name on twitter. robert bennett is a former federal prosecutor who represented bill clinton when he was sued by paula jones. bob, as one of the few people any this world who have represented a president facing a high stakes interrogation ultimately, what do you make of these questions? >> well, its very clear when you read the questions that theyre trying to, mr. mueller is trying to get into the head of the ...