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>> theyre trying to raise the election as a time line, a point in time where they either want this wrapped up now. they dont have any leverage to tell the special counsel when he has to wrap this up. theyre the ones stalling on answering and figuring out whether the presidents going to sit down with the special counsels office, probably not going to happen, but theyve been dragging this out as much as anybody. i mean, rudy giuliani has been so disingenuous about most of what he said on televisio...

>> its just this. >> mueller is just going to go on doing his thing. and, you know, he doesnt talk to the press. we dont know exactly where hes going or what hes doing. but it is all just talk, unless and until they decide actually to fire mueller. >> josh campbell, what do you think? >> well, theres a lot of bluster here. whats interesting is that theyre not even trying to hide the fact that theyre inappropriately influencing or at least attempting to influence an ongoing criminal investigation...

Justice? >> seems to be a weekly ritual where guiliani and his client, the president, try to one up each other. the president says something crazy and borderline insane and mean and menacing and macho and then rudy guiliani comes forward and does something even more outrageous and silly. i think mostly the statements of guiliani that are made outside of court before theres any kind of proceeding not occurring in the conference rooms of the special counsels office should be ignored. is it a threa...

Intentions, or two, intimidating? >> it can become such, depending what future things happen. if someone says, these are hypotheticals, dont write angry letters. if you say i am coming down on you like a ton of bricks and six weeks from now somebody does something outrageous like breaks into muellers office or commits some further act or fires bob mueller, then the context of that statement has changed. well know whether it is empty bluster or something that portends a thing we should be more co...

How alarming is that threat from the presidents attorney? >> there is no such deadline. with rudy guiliani, is it a threat? a bunch of bluster? it is hard to say. he says so much on any given day. this is latest. heres what he said to bloomberg, if he speaking of mueller doesnt get it done in the next two or three weeks, we will just unload on him like a ton of bricks, write the damn report so we can see it and rebut it. this is guiliani calling on mueller to wrap up the investigation, to put ou...

For their base. >> but weve seen poll numbers that its not working. even among republicans, 70% of americans want to see the president testify before robert mueller. i dont know if they imagine the president sworn in and testifying, i hope they do, i wish it were on television. 60% of americans believe in the integrity of the probe. that has to include large numbers of people who voted for donald trump. >> sure. i think there is some slippage of the numbers but theyre relatively good as you just...

Exposure. former governor todd whitman is back with me to discuss. shes also of course the former head of the epa. deregulations has been a central focus of this administration. in some cases, it makes sense. some regulations dont work. but in this one, getting back in the asbestos game. why would we want such a thing? >> no, you shouldnt. the only good news about the scott pruitt tenancy was he was more bluster and hed say things and hell roll back things to make headlines but he didnt understa...

Out this way, that would be playing out with the midterm elections sort of the backdrop with the midterm elections. your sense in the white house do they believe this could be an asset for them or is this bluster. >> they might as well try to use it to generate as much passion as they can among supporters. jennifer is right with what the clinton team did. they concluded they didnt have a legal case to stand on to resist the subpoena. and she was right, they didnt negotiate the subjects, they neg...

Giuliani may be negotiating with himself but he also seems to be negotiating with his client because trump, number one, reveals so much about this in public, insists on tweeting about it, making his case in public when any lawyer would probably prefor that he did not do that. and second, when trump has repeatedly said publicly and privately that hed like to do this whether or not his counsel thinks its a good idea, and he continues to say theyre trying to talk me out of it, but i think i can do ...

The american dollar, prohibits the sales of aluminum and steel to iran. hits the automotive sector, 90 days from now implements new sanctions on the petroleum industry. the president has offered to iranian president. so far its been met by bluster from iran. maybe it could lead to an opening somewhere down the road. nobody is optimistic. the president going off again on the trump tower meeting. the president tweeting yesterday fake news reporting a complete fabrication that i am concerned about ...