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Possible? maybe. could that mean written questions? maybe. or could it be an interview with a much narrower scope? anything, i think, is still possible, john. >> anything, if none of those happen, could include a subpoena and a court fight. sara murray, appreciate the reporting. to saras last point, all of this, he wont interview -- person says, sluabsolutely, ilo it under oath. his lawyer says no way. the president saying he can pull this off. its all part of the negotiating, where the ground r...

Another tv show this morning, and said it was being cited for information in the article other than what steele had provided. so, again, we havent seen the fisa application. we dont know what it was they were specifically citing. i was surprised to see a reference to me in the memo. i had no idea i was going to get such a -- >> now youve got to change your book before it goes to press. >> but i saw you saying on other programs, you knew christopher steele was working for someone opposed to trump...

Chris christie is a lawyer and saying dont testify. but they also dont want to antagonize mueller which is why we heard them talk. >> grand jury subpoena, nuclear option, they have that, one would presume they would be able to get that? >> thats the club in the closet and they can bring that out. i think they are far better off to negotiate out front. i dont think its a surprise at all the presidents lawyers are negotiating with the mule tear team about are they going to be guard rails around th...

Typical new york times fake stories. >> did you try to fire robert mueller? >> again, the presidents lawyers are instructive here. the president says fake news. the lawyers say no comment. and so here we are at the moment of truth. the moment of truth in the sense that we could know by the end of the week. will the president keep his word and sit down? what will the ground rules be and as this plays out people in congress saying we have to do things to protect bob mueller to keep him in. normall...

Prosecutors office. we have learned the first is the allegation that the president asked then fbi director james comey to lay off michael flynn, his national security adviser, who since has pled guilty to perjury charges. they also want to know the presidents reaction to congressional testimony given by comey in may of last year. comey was fired days after the hearing. they also expect -- they are also expected to ask about the presidents reaching out to intelligence leaders here in washington a...

Accept only written responses. muellers team will say we want to question you. then the president and his attorneys will have to make a decision. they can say for sure you can question me and lets talk about the ground rules or the president can say pound sand, in which case mueller will issue a dprand jury subpoena. then the president will decide whether or not, a, he goes to the grand jury and testifies. almost certainly not. b, he invokes his fifth amendment privilege against self incriminati...

Be on the mueller team so at the same time, that hes suggesting he wants to come forward and has nothing to hide, hes seeding sort of the public with all sorts of reasons why it may not be a great idea and he shouldnt be subjecting himself to it. i think we wait and see. >> when he says that hillary clinton during the investigation of her and the server and e-mail and all that, she didnt do it under oath. are you familiar with the ground rules? what the ground rules for her were? >> yeah, so a l...

Well know, is separate from the legislative branch and its our job to fund government and keep government open and i dont think we ought to spend a lot of time waiting to hear from the president. hell weigh in when with hes ready to weigh in. i understand the democrats concern is, will the president sign a bill if it passes the senate and will the house of representatives pass it, but nobody can make a guarantee like that. there are no guarantees in terms of a bill passing. thats unrealistic. >>...

Over our government. it hurts our government. its a democrat hoax that was brought up as an excuse for losing an election that frankly the democrats should have won because they have such a tremendous advantage in the electoral college. it was brought up for that reason. >> the president at ougdds with the facts. the investigation began months before the election. the special counsel was appointed by president trumps justice did they department. he is well aware its not just about collusion. two...

>> that is incorrect, completely incorrect. the reporting we did was drawn from other sources entirely, in which we had very high confidence. that was one of the ground rules we set for ourselves. i say we. the fbi, nsa and my office. we had a high confidence level of anything that we put in that intelligence committee assessment. because of our in ability to validate, verify the sources that were used in the dossier, we did not include it as part of the intelligence community assessment. i will...