we have at least 300 people, women and children included man of whom made the trek starting in march around easter all the way up through mexico ultimatel getting here too close to the united states. there are a lot of people who watched her show last few days and wonder, how is it that american lawyers go down to mexico and advise people from another country about how to ge into this country when most of their concerns are economic? they want a better life, may maybe they can get a job in honduras, but that is not a valid claim for asylum. let separate two things. first let human rights first is doing, we re not in mexico, we re not going down to mexico, but what we are doing is workin with volunteer lawyers to help people who present themselves t the u.s. authorities and ask fo protection. what you provide with them? advice, answer questions.
lawyer. and rudy has a sort of 1980s legal mindset. trump s head is in the 1980s. rudy is that, and he knows the southern district of new york. he comes out of there. he will defend trump capably on tv. trump trusts him, which i think is important in terms of having trust with your lawyer. i think it s a good hire on trump s part. i agree completely, at least from the communications standpoint. you have a known face who is a good combative on tv. i think this is a win for trump. now you have someone in the room, mueller in massachusetts, rudy in new york, rudy was obviously mayor on 9/11, mueller was the fbi director. they worked together in that crisis. they know each other, one would assume they have a professional relationship. the question is to what end? will it speed up at least the resolution of will or will not the president answer questions? i don t know.
the very people who voted for donald trump, is that a concern for you? of course it s a concern, but at the same time what we ve had is for decades administrations recognizing that china is stealing intellectual property in an unwillingness to do anything about it. we cannot allow them to continue to come into our country, invest in companies, steal their technology and create competitors back in china. there are interin the rules that protect intellectual property that are not upheld. the president is making to sure to protect american businesses here. mark zuckerberg is making a lot of headline this is morning. members of congress including some republicans want to see him come answer questions on capitol hill. does the president, does the white house also believe zuckerberg needs to face the music? that s a question honestly for congress and facebook more so than it is for us. the white house has no opinion on this data breach that happened, 50 million americans supposedly h
but they ve all said the same thing. that we when witnesses don t answer questions, they re not subpoenaed, they re not brought back in. they aren t forced to produce documentary records the democrats want. and adam schiff, the top democrat on the committee, has a list of 30 or so witnesses that the democrats have wanted to bring in, but the republicans have said no to. and, you know, it s a highly partisan time we live in. but, you know, mike and i and you, we ve alma been covering congressional investigations for a long time. and even when they get partisan, it s never like this. you still have people on both sides who try to get to the bottom of things and they at least do the investigations by the numbers. this is it looks like they re in the tank on an issue that is a fundamental importance to american democracy. i want to talk about when we come back more you said about building a trump tower in moscow, right? and also about the miss universe pageant. we have a lot of n
talk to the special counsel, answer questions, under oath. i assume the president plans to keep his word on that? look, he also said that would be in consultation with his attorneys. they have been in touch with special counsel and they will be communicating back and forth. he said 100% to me. 100% yes. i m sure he intends to. but what i m saying is that his attorneys are speaking with special counsel on the specifics. trump s lawyers were mull ang offer it mueller to trade presidential interview for a concrete date to end his investigation. we begin with the potential for a mueller interview and what it could mean for the president. second, report that president is shaking up his legal team and bringing in a lawyer who worked on the clinton impeachment case. they report that got pushed back from the president himself today and other big legal challenge. efforts of porn star stormy daniels to talk publicly about