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Documents, legally speaking how does that circle back to the president? >> the issue is whether manafort will be convinced or convincible to speak out against the president to cooperate, eventually, with the investigation. and turn on president trump. which i think may help explain president trumps outburst earlier this week. where hes feeling his own legal vulnerability. and, you know, therefore asking attorney general sessions to shut down the russia investigation. so, we see that the presiden...

>> theres the guilt by association that happens when you have somebody like paul manafort a key role league that close to donald trump it does suggest theres some wrongdoing going on but at the end of the day, the indictment being prosecuted by the mueller team has to do with bank fraud and tax fraud. again, the underlying concept is does paul manafort want to save himself and if so, does she have something with which to bargain with robert mueller. >> so rudy giuliani talking this week with sup...

So it can be a very precarious situation for the president to go into an interview ground rules or no. >> so, jack, to your ground rules point let me ask you this, lets say they agree on ground rules, we can agree on this but not this, the president starts to talk but takes them into an area that had been walled off by ground rules. thats now open. thats fair game, correct? >> that happens often just because of the dynamic of an interview especially a voluntary interview as opposed to, for examp...

Between president trump and special counsel robert mueller. >> ive heard him say i want to be interviewed if my lawyers can reach an agreement on the ground rules. we have had a hard time doing that. but were still. . im not giving a lot of hope its happening. but we havent stopped negotiating. >> joining me now is danny sivales. is it in the presidents best interests to talk to robert mueller. >> that would be a bad idea. the president is caught this year because if he sits down with federal in...

During the whitewater investigation. these days he is a criminal defense attorney. as you can tell, the story is a full on cliché. we can close our eyes and read from three weeks or three months ago. the president who wants to talk and the attorneys are cautioning him and the special counsel wants to catch him off guard. we can say about this president she expansive, tends to be narcissistic when he starts talking. doesnt that mean there are a million ways for him to get into trouble even if th...

Prosecutors and agents of the righteousness of their position. prosecutors and agents are generally in the business of building cases, not deconstructing them. they come to an interview with that mind set. it could be a very precarious situation for the president to go into an interview. ground rules or no. >> to your ground rules point, let me ask you this. say they agree on ground rules. we can ask you this and not this. the president starts to talk and takes them into an area that had been wa...

Lawyer on television that ever thinks their client should testify. >> why should we believe that, though? because everything that he says indicates the opposite, that he doesnt want to -- >> really? i havent heard him say that. ive heard him say i want to be interviewed if my lawyers can reach an agreement on what the ground rules will be. weve had a hard time doing that, but were still -- im not going to give you a lot of hope its going to happen, but were still negotiating. we havent stopped n...

Opposite, he doesnt want to? >> really? i havent heard him say that. ive heard him say i want to be interviewed if my lawyers can reach an agreement on what the ground rules will be. weve had a hard time doing that. were still -- im not going to give you a lot of hope its going to happen. were still negotiating. we havent stopped negotiating. the most recent letter, they sent us a proposal. we responded to their proposal. they took about 10 days. yesterday we got a letter back for them. were in ...

Want to fight crime. crime is so bad here. and he has a meeting once a week to really curtail this and work on those numbers trying to get them lower. steve: he has his hands full. steve: meanwhile the president of the united states was in the east room at the white house with the prime minister of italy yesterday. did he take some questions. he had some answers. including the fact that he would meet with the man who runs iran and he has no ground rules. listen. >> i believe in meeting. i certai...

Iranian president hassan rouhani, with, as you heard, no preconditions. that would make trump the first president in 40 years to meet with an iranian leader and it was a big change in just the space of eight days, mind you. it was just a week ago sunday night when the president tweet threatened the iranian president in all capital letters. remember this one. never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered b...