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Trumps former lawyer, john dowel, gave an interview today e planing why the president did not sit down with robert mueller. thank you both for coming on. i appreciate it. lets talk about john dowel right now. >> first question, easy, third question, easy, he was not sure. he does not look being unsure. so hell guess. there is your trap right there. >> it is not whether he lies about it. everybody wants to get into this integrity business. it is not a matter of integrity. it is over load. what i ...

Thats the reason why as mike was just saying, its so easy and so difficult -- so difficult for any lawyer to see these questions and think, okay, this is a good idea for you to go in and do this interview. look, i think when we reported on the story about a month ago about the four main groups of topics, with we knew there were 50 questions the team had come up with based on their conversations with the mueller team, the conversations as we were talking to people really made it clear there was a...

To go from subject to target, thats the reason why as mike was just saying, its so easy and so difficult -- so difficult for any lawyer to see these questions and think, okay, this is a good idea for you to go in and do this interview. look, i think when we reported on the story about a month ago about the four main groups of topics, with we knew there were 50 questions the team had come up with based on their conversations with the mueller team, the conversations as we were talking to people re...

That he needed to question the president directly to determine whether the president had criminal intent when he fired james comey. mr. dowel held firm. investigators agreed days later to share during a meeting with questions they wanted to ask mr. trump. dowel is like you dont need to interview him, yes, we do. theyre negotiating back and forth and finally at a meeting with dowel and muellers investigators, all right, here are the questions we want to ask. when mr. muellers team relayed the que...

In schmidts story he gives you the back term of where it comes from which may give you some hints, hes not going to talk to us about his sources but it may give you some hints of where it came from. his lawyers have been negotiating in terms of interviews o ut of concerns that their client can provide false statements and easily distracted. this list of questions grew out of those negotiations. here is the time line. in january, 2018, trumps lawyers gave mr. mueller several pages of the presiden...

Cannot allowed him to be interviewed. it is too invasive and it is too much and we think it is a bad idea to allow him to go in for an interview. >> the presidents lawyer reaction is briefed by the list of questions was oh no, these are not questions that we can allow the president to answer if this is what they want to ask. they should not get him? >> you have to look at the larger time line of what happened. john dow was a big hawk against letting the president sit down for an interview. liste...

Say this is something that they m happen. it makes it that much more significant. >> boris sanchez at the white house, thank you for that reporting. lets bring in michael zeldon. he works closely. and so they have ties with robert mueller and i know you know mueller and how much would he be willing to tell trumps attorneys about his case and where it is at? >> zero would be my guess. mueller is not about to reveal anything to john dowel who i think he does know and hes an institution in washingt...

Dowel and secoulo is hoping to see signs. they had other meetings. the white house says everyone who works there and mueller asked to interview have not gone in for an interview. earlier last week when white house counsel mcgahn sat down on his interview and turned over documents requested by the special counsel. >> we have a statement called seculo on what he says, well not discuss. it is important to note that there is no requirements for mueller to give them any information. theyre hoping hes...