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And robert mueller has agreed to the president answering certain russia probe questions in writing. luckily we have some lawyers here who we can talk to about this. weve talked so much about whether the president is going to sit down or not. i wonder what you make of this latest reporting, that mueller is going with the idea of written questions, at least on russian collusion questions. >> i think its important to break this into two parts. one is the part about the collusion question and the ca...

House, im wondering how it compares and how much it alarms you, smb someone who actually worked in the obama white house. >> let me deal with the credibility issue. it is preposterous to assume that all of these stories and all of these sources are concocted by bob wood ward to present a negative portrait of this president and has been pointed out, many of the anecdotes square up with things reported elsewhere although not this detailed. i dont think there is any question. no book of 479 pages i...

Forged under a democratic chairman and has been used by the democrats and its going to sound like complaining about the weather. this is the way confirmation has gone. the best point? i think it was that these documents should have been produced earlier and there is a lot that still should be produced. >> the ginsburg rule is a myth. ruth bader ginsburg could not have been clearner saying that the right to abortion is a fundamental right for americans and watch brett kavanaugh say absolutely not...

Idea of written questions at least on russian collusion questions. z >> so i think its important to break this into two parts. one is the part of the collusion question and what if any role donald trump played. and that is what theyre going on written questions for. and i see that as muellers effort to move this along. he more than anyone will be aware of the fact he wants to get this done, theres a time frame hes aiming for, and those are questions i think i dont like written questions, period,...

The collusion question. why is the president of the united states unwilling to answer openly these questions about "collusion." why the cover up? >> the goal being argued to mueller that the president was not capable of telling the truth and could not testify. dowd denied this happened, but if its true, what does it say that the lawyer dos not think he is capable of telling the truth. why he ultimately left. >> nothing good. >> think of it for a second that the lawyers go to the special counsel ...

Given that one piece of reporting in the new book with the legal teams a.m. bif lens, the next piece of breaking news fits into the conversation. they learn the prosecutors responded to the trump teams latest proposal regarding a possible interview. a source told us the discussions involving the possibility of written questions for the president, the "new york times" goes further reporting that mr. mueller told the legal team he will accept written answers about solution with russia. back with t...

Yes, all of us who have been covering trump had been doing pieces of this. now we have trump naked in a whole coherent narrative about his presidency and recklessness and about his dishonesty and his lack of ability. it is a frightening, damning portrait. one question and it seems to be about general kelly, at some point the congress of the united states, general kelly, i would think, ought to resign for the sake of the country. its derelict to continue in that job knowing what he does. somebody...

Where dustin hoffmans banging on the window on the outside. every report coming into that hearing room today was the president running around the capitol with his hair on fire. thats not exactly the environment you want to talk about deferring to a president. i think what comes out of this book if its true is quite alarming. theres no question about that. some of it i just find hard to believe. i cant believe that any two sane lawyers would essentially perform in front of mueller like theyre doi...

Poorly, stumbling and contrad t contradicting himself and lying and saying at some point that it was a god damn hoax. >> from the book, when the president broke down, it didnt work and he got angry and had to call it off. the mock interview. his own lawyers went to mueller and reenacted for mueller what happened with trump to convince him that if he called him in, he would not get straight answers. the president of the united states might perjury himself. high has to close that door. i think its...

I dont think hes down and out yet. hes down but not out. a lot still will depend ultimately what mueller has on the collusion question. >> we will discuss this when we come back. we have to take a quick break. we have never seen donald trump truly cornered with his back against the wall and truly down. we have no idea what he is capable of for better or for worse, when truly cornered. thats something obviously we may come to witness and may not. coming up next we talk more about the attorney g...