Were used to seeing from the president. Perhaps this statement was lawyered, it was in response to a request that my colleague Ashley Parker and i made to sarah sanders, first to interview the president. He wasnt available for an interview, but she offered to get a statement from him which he provided. Look, its important because he seems to be creating some wiggle room for his son. We know from our reporting that theres anxiety in the president s inner circle including by the president himself who has fretted to associates and friends that hes worried about don jr. , worried that there could be some legal jeopardy, legal exposure there, and theres a feeling in the orbit that something could potentially happen in the next few weeks. We dont know what that might be. But this maybe the president trying to protect himself, distance himself from anything that may be afoot with his son. All right. So theres the issue of the Trump Tower Meeting which we know mueller has a good deal of inform
united states is jim comey s boss. it s also totally different because of the circumstances which is a private setting without lawyers there, without any witnesses. and obviously it s part of a pattern of seeking to in effect squelch, thwart, stop the investigation involving the possibility of colluding between the trump campaign and the russians and also obstruction of justice, both under investigation by jim comey. so if rudy giuliani were trying to make a point to george stephanopoulos the argument would have been i ve been told a lot of times by my boss to give someone a break, right? that s what the analogy is. not that somebody s friend or family is saying hey, could you go easy on my brother or my friend. this is a story of somebody in a position of authority asking a prosecutor to give somebody a break and someone who might have been implicated in the story themselves. that s key to this.
without lawyers there, without any witnesses. and obviously it s part of a pattern of seeking to in effect squelch, thwart, stop the investigation involving the possibility of colluding between the trump campaign and the russians and also obstruction of justice, both under investigation by jim comey. so if rudy giuliani were trying to make a point to george stephanopoulos the argument would have been i ve been told a lot of times by my boss to give someone a break, right? that s what the analogy is. not that somebody s friend or family is saying hey, could you go easy on my brother or my friend. this is a story of somebody in a position of authority asking a prosecutor to give somebody a break and someone who might have been implicated in the story themselves. that s key to this. there really is no analogy