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Clint watts, an msnbc contributor, former fbi be agent said these are very dangerous questions for the president because he doesnt note everything that mueller knows. and ryan goodman and alex writing making the same point you made, muellers questions show it is likely mueller has already identified crimes involving collusion and asking only about trumps personal knowledge and personal involvement. do you think the legal team has been undertaking a legal team under giuliani to lay the groundwork...

Period, full stop. and thats the number one thing that they want to avoid. so i think the leak is designed to begin to portray an out-of-control prosecutor. of course, these are all very kind of obvious straightforward questions to anyone who has been following the probe and i dont think they play very well as overreaching. >> and it seems, david, we are hurtaling now, were hurtling toward some confrontation as you said. theres going to be a fight. if the president says no, mueller then sends a ...

David lean hard from the "new york times" his latest piece is called "the truth is coming for frump," and harry litman. david, had you something you want to say. >> i was going to say, carol made the point mueller is not going to limit himself to this list of questions. mueller is not just a lawyer. hes a political animal. hes held political appointments been in washington a long time and understands how the game works. he understands hes at risk of getting fired by the president of the united s...

Lines. were looking at a legal battle. its much more likely than it seemed three weeks ago that mueller will serve a subpoena. trump will try to quash it and were off to the races in the federal courtses. >> what does that look like to you, david? >> i mean it looks on the one hand like a big mess but this is a mess we should want. as harry said, this is about the rule of law. we are supposed to be a nation of laws, supposed to be a place where power does not allow you to subvert and twist the j...

>> if theyre successful in spinning all this we want to say the facts are out, even if theres indictable offenses, fundamentally they understand this. they understand its a political game. >> i think thats why were not seeing anything beyond whats been reported in the news in the questions of from mueller. a lot of people were disappointed they werent looking at some of trumps business deals or the potential financial leverage russia could have on him. thats been hashed out in the news and a lot...

You had with other trump aides about kislyak. so that produced the trump lawyers then in this case jay sekulow then began writing down questions that he extrapolated from the comments that muellers deputy made to him in a march 12th conversation. >> right. so this is all being channeled, this is a sort of meeting and a conversation thats then channeled through one of trumps attorneys and is now out in the public. thats how we sort of know what we currently know? >> correct. you know, a lot of pe...

Kind of -- this is some kind of bizarre tangent that is not jermaine to the main issue itself shows how much they have successfully been able to kind of mess with us and mess with our understanding of whats right in front of our face. >> in the end, whats going to matter more, our own sense of a general public confusion about whats really important or the results of the mueller investigation which im pretty confident are going to be directed and by the way, the president may decide not to cooper...

Said these are very dangerous questions for the president because he doesnt note everything that mueller knows. and ryan goodman and alex writing making the same point you made, muellers questions show it is likely mueller has already identified crimes involving collusion and asking only about trumps personal knowledge and personal involvement. do you think the legal team has been undertaking a legal team under giuliani to lay the groundwork to say the president is not going to do it. >> yes, th...

This point. the strategy of trump trying to discredit contract investigation he keeps saying financial crimes, porn star, hes going crazy. these questions show hes absolutely not. >> thats perfect example of part of the strategy. the other part is you have a narrow bailiwick. its implicit in all the people around the president. of course, hes committed other crimes. theyre like oh, my goodness, dont look in that room. that room is off limits. if you open the door to that room, were going to get ...

>> so if president trump were your client and you were directing his legal team, youre telling me you would advise him not to sit for an interview with robert mueller? >> thats correct. >> and then what would happen? i mean, in the case of bill clinton if im not mistaken, his testimony in that deposition in the paula jones was ultimately competented. your client bill clinton declined to voluntarily sit and then he was subpoenaed. is that right? >>, thats not right. he was subpoenaed in another p...