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At one point, he says its gods orders, kate. All right. So much more to learn. Scott, thank you so much for being on the ground. Really appreciate it. Thank you all so much for joining me today. Inside politics with john king starts right now. Thank you, kate. And welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thank you for sharing your day with us. The president s new response to the Special Counsel is more political threat than legal strategy. Shut things down, team trump tells Robert Mueller, or b...

Answer, or do they say, a-ha, hes already reached a conclusion? so either keep up these negotiations, go nuclear with a subpoena, or decide he doesnt need to talk to the president. we dont know what his intent is in any of these things. we know he wants to talk to him, but would he settle for not? >> and theres definitely some irony in rudy giuliani sort of daring publicly, daring mueller to go past the september 1st deadline because, you know, the lawyers have been in negotiations for really a ...

Using the eun terry executive. not to get legalistic. that is something that people assert but its not backed up by precedent. there isnt a long list of court cases that back u that theory. >> because no other president would go out there and say i can pardon myself. >> isnt what president trump and his lawyers are doing is daring mueller to do it. they are sick of waiting. finally, lets test these theories. lets see what happens. and you know, the confusion and the disappointment, though, i thi...

Interferes with that ability for him to really conduct in powers in office. its one reason why they believe, and the justice department has said, in legal opinions that the president cannot -- a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime. so all of thats, i think, goes into their thinking, essentially theyre daring mueller to go there. >> pam, wouldnt that drag out the fight? >> it certainly would, but whats interesting here, according to my colleague gloria borger, is the change in politi...

Lengthy court fight. >> evan, weve been talking about this tonight. couldnt the president just plead the fifth? >> he can. he has the same rights as everybody else, but the presidents legal team believes they dont even have to get there. they believe that first theyre going to litigate whether mueller even has the right to subpoena the president, that it interferes with his article 2 powers. this is the part of the constitution that says what powers the president has, and it interferes with that...

Difficult case to make. i am not surprised that they are make it go again, jeffrey would know more than i do. but not an argument that it seems likely to succeed. essentially, playing for time for lack of a better way of putting it which is kicking the can down the road and daring mueller essentially to subpoena them and see what happens. and after, that i dont think that they have a whole lot of legal argument to make. we are, as jeffrey said, in other charted argument. >> much more on this dis...

The court? >> right. and i think that its a difficult case to make. im not surprised theyre making it again. jeffrey would know more than i do. its not an argument that seems likely to succeed. i think you are reaching the stage of this in terms of what trumps lawyers are looking at, which is essentially playing for time for lack of a better way of putting it, which is just kicking the can down the road and daring mueller essentially to subpoena them and then see what happens. and after that, i ...

Larger threat to the country, our electoral system. he only sees it in terms of whether he is being criticized. he only sees it as an excuse by the democrats. nobody else sees it that way. even delayed reaction of twitter and facebook recognizes this was a serious threat but not the president of the united states, who may not be calling it a hoax openly but what hes really doing is sending out signals, daring mueller to bring anything. if he doesnt have something significant, that hes going to r...

It was highly unappropriate and wrong. president trump further closing the door tonight to the idea of sitting down for an interview with robert mueller. >> let him write his report. we did nothing. theres no collusion. but if hes doing an honest report hed write it on the other side. >> reporter: after saying for months he wants to testify, the president essentially daring mueller the move without him. leaving the white house for a fund raising trip to new york, the president talking for the fi...