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Somebody i was very lucky was in the building tonight when this story broke. again, the breaking news right now, a remarkable turn in the story. "the new york times" has not just obtained, they have published a list of some four dozen questions that the special counsels office is positing to the sitting president of the united states. we do not know whether the president will consent to answer these questions in a formal interview setting. we dont know the circumstances of how the story broke an...

Hes done it before, has a history of giving false stamms when theres no testimony involved. >> theyre going to do the best they can to negotiate the terms. their ideal scenario would probably be no questions at all. short of that, written questions where they can assist him in preparing the answers. hes got lots of time to think what hes saying and not on the spot. i do want to point out what the robert mueller would be doing if hes in a grand jury set org interview setting is not trying to trip...

Barbara, bill clinton was a lawyer. he was one of the sharpest talkers around and he got himself into a pickle in that testimony. donald trump has a history of giving false statements in testimony. hes done it before, has a history of giving statemefalse when theres no testimony involved. >> theyre going to do the best they can to negotiate the terms. their ideal scenario would probably be no questions at all. short of that, written questions where they can assist him in preparing the answers. h...

Interview. it is a suicide mission. its a very clear perjury trap. >> laura: lawrence walshs invents investigation of iran contra, the special counsel there, walsh agreed not to interview president reagan in person, they submitted -- the president responded to the written interrogatories and thats how it went down. here with the president of the star, special counsel, they have the videotaped testimony and so forth. its kind of a different precedent, but what if they agreed to a narrow pathway, ...

Interview. it is a suicide mission. its a very clear perjury trap. >> laura: lawrence walshs invents investigation of iran contra, the special counsel there, walsh agreed not to interview president reagan in person, they submitted -- the president responded to the written interrogatories and thats how it went down. here with the president of the star, special counsel, they have the videotaped testimony and so forth. its kind of a different precedent, but what if they agreed to a narrow pathway, ...

Lot of these same questions. thats more important than what the president tweeted on saturday. >> and carol, to that last point in terms of mcgahn being sort of in the middlecgahn being in the middle of the interview when they starting on thursday broke on friday when the flynn investigation -- sorry, when the flynn plea agreement was announced and maybe picked up that interview already this week or will later on this week, is it a crime for somebody to tell a lie to muellers investigators in an...

Unforthcoming about those contacts, at least in the first instance. and he continues to serve at the highest levels in the white house. and that would seem to be an untenable situation in the long run. but it remains to be seen what robert muellers inquiry and the congressional investigations are going to do with this continually evolving not good information about kushner and how honest hes being and what kinds of contacts he had with russia while russia was attacking the election to try to ben...

Scheduled interview with robert muellers investigators. were told the hope hicks interview may happen as soon as this week. crucial question, its not clear whether hicks will be called to testify to the grand jury. in addition to speaking with mullers prosecutors in an interview setting. so we dont know when the hope hicks interview and/or testimony will be but we expect it should be any day now if it hasnt happened already. so like i said, busy day. [ laughter ] >> all of that is going on in th...

Give something to him. i left the encounter thinking how can i get this guy to let down his guard? >> even in an interview setting, if you give him a compliment, you can see it sort of wash over him. >> he hit a home run in high school and he remembers the article reporting that donald trump won the game. >> he had to tell me about it. >> coming up, what trump had to say about his multiple bankruptcies. customers get up and running, anywhere in the planet. wherever theres a phone, youve got a ba...

But, you know, i identify this as kind of the ultimate example of the narcissistic culture. we now live in a world where people advertise themselves on facebook. were practically walking brotubr brochures. and donald pioneered that. and there is an emptiness to it, i think of him being a bottomless pit of need and the presidency was the one rock he could get to try to fill that pit. and its not going to work. >> thats interesting. you see him as a bottomless pit of need. thats a really stunning ...