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If the government lets them out of trouble, even if it means lying or making up stories. i dont see michael doing that. im not clear if he doesnt see him working with the government, lying. jeffrey toobin was clear that the government does not entice people to lie as some sort of an arrangement. its important that we reiterate that. >> i saw jeffrey this morning when he made that statement, that federal prosecutors dont lie. i do a lot of defense work. i think they do lie from time to time. i do...

Anything he wants with them. at the same time they dont actually want him to sit down with mueller and his team because obstruction of justice has to do with sta mind. the key word in that statute is "corruptly." so mueller wants to get at whether these decisions were made corruptly and they dont want to have to -- think hes too much of a loose cannon. they want to get him up there and potentially contradict himself and potentially lie and potentially say something hugely damaging. >> giuliani w...

They? >> its hard to predict what they are going to do. i just want to make clear that they briefed the committees or at least the gang of eight and while there were white house people there at the beginning, according to press reports, its not clear that they have briefed the white house on this. >> right. >> what doj and fbi will do im not quite sure. it is not unusual for defense lawyers to ask the government to show me this or show me that at all stages. i do defense work, and its perfectly ...

This sort of work, that could say, listen, this guy is really damaging your legal interests right now. youre going to pay for this later if you dont get rid of him now. >> high end defense work is not steaks 21 club, not a panel on fox news and theres a reason that the lawyers who are really good at that stuff arent doing the stuff that he is doing day in and day out. what he does is try to solve one problem and goes right and creates a second problem. the second problem is created on at&t and s...

Side that a nontarget letter isnt worth the paper its printed on because the prosecutor can just decide two days after he writes the letter that he wants to -- now he made up his mind to charge you. i think what this means you know. >> stop right there. i want to make sure i understand this. you also did defense work in federal courts and other places. youre saying getting a letter saying youre subject but not a criminal target. you should talk to us, that from a defense attorney standpoint that...

Know. >> stop right there. i want to make sure i understand this. you also did defense work in federal courts and other places. youre saying getting a letter saying youre subject but not a criminal target. you should talk to us, that from a defense attorney standpoint thats not -- no ones writing that in stone. >> that doesnt mean anything really. very little to me. now that im on the other side and representing people who are subjects of criminal investigations that would not give me much comfo...

Used to your spokesperson for your legal defense team. hes worried obstruction of justice. and thats a problem if youre going to be inconsistent with that. >> walking away. lets talk about another one of the presidents lawyers, dowd, who this week, by the way, and theres so much happening in the headlines, also gone this week. >> again, theres a concern here that the presidents now left with a very limited group of folks with limited criminal defense experience. so ty cobb has certainly a former...

Attorney-client privilege. his secrets say with imhad. he can maintain donald trumps confidence even as an ex-member of the team. he and the president both saying positive things about each other, on his way out the door. number four, our colleague, julia ainslie, reporting two well places sources say donald trump is interested in bringing back marc kasowitz, a more combative lawyer known more for his criminal work than his defense work. but the writing on the wall is clear -- donald trump is mo...

Negotiating with mueller team. pamela brown saying the president does not need to sit down for formal interview with bob mueller. do you think he should sit down with bob mueller or that its fair for him to avoid it? >> that would be between him and his attorneys. i was a prosecutor. never did much defense work. if i was defending i would be reluctant to do that. the man is president of the united states. he can simply refuse. >> but if you were prosecuting. >> i would want him there. absolutely...

That enough has been done to prevent meddling in the 2018 midterms? >> no not at all. first of all, to be fair, its a very, very difficult thing to try to figure out how to keep a nation state like russia or perhaps china or others who might be interested in further disrupting democracy in the united states. its a really hard chore. you have to do good defense work and try to strengthen the system to mes which is hard enough but that requires a lot of money, concentration and perhaps most import...