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>> neil: are they real, jay? >> if a conflict was there, we would raise it in the appropriate venue, that would include with the special counsel himself or the deputy attorney general. thats the normal process -- >> neil: have you done that? >> we have not raised those issues at this point. >> neil: so theyre not to the point to be a significant issue for you now? >> were not at the point where we raised conflict issues yet. >> neil: okay. where do you see this going? of course with the iran con...

Lawyers client is about to be subpoenaed so if president trump would be subpoenaed, which would be unusual and unlikely, they would tell his lawyers. short of that, they have no obligation to tell him anything. >> neil: in almost all of the press accounts ive read, they say the empaneling of a grand jury is an indication that the investigation is ramping up. i dont know if those are fiery words, but how do you describe what this means, this action taken by mueller means? >> bear in mind, the gra...

Look, im not in the position to make that analysis. that is not my job right now. so i want to be clear on that. i dont see that issue coming up. i dont see it. >> neil: is it fair to say your conversations with the president that hes frustrated with muler? >> im not going to -- look, neil, im not going to discuss -- were friends. i cant discuss conversations with the president. theyre privileged. >> neil: and theres the arizona congressman who was on the show saying mueller should resign. not o...

>> neil: all right. in just a bit, well talk to trumps lawyer, jay succalo in just a bit. but right now, in this stage, with all the other investigations going on, this timing is about par for the course as well for a grand jury. what do you make of it? >> i think that if you want to believe that donald trump had nothing to do with it, youre going to believe this is par for the course, typical and that mueller is doing everything he needs to do to protect himself and so that nobody can question ...

Firing bob mueller now. is that true? >> the president is not thinking about firing bob mueller. so this is -- speculation out there is incorrect. >> neil: would you advise him regardless of a grand jury that that would be a bad idea? >> look, my job is to -- my job is to deal with what? i have to deal with the facts as we have them and the case as we have it. the decisions the president were to make on bob mueller is a decision that im not involved in and would not be involved in and frankly th...

They dont know more than we do. again, essentially were going to see pundits, one after the other try to build this to something big. maybe it is, maybe its nothing. you cant say. mueller has a reputation, well-deserved, of being a superb lawyer in every respect and also somebody who does not leak and does not want his people to leak. >> neil: somebody leaked it out. >> but it could be out of muellers hands. could be somebody that is involved with the grand jury. >> neil: we know about it now. i...

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