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>> reporter: you and i would have talked how theyre over at this point. that grains sa of salt. as you talked about, oprah winfrey making a ton of headlines after that speech at the golden globes. almost inevitable that would come up in this gaggle with the pool members on air force one, and gidly, wasnt aware of whether or not the president had seen oprahs speech, but said we welcome all-comers. throwing down the gauntlet. asked if the president was running again in 2020. ask the campaign. with...

Next several weeks, according to a person close to the president. weve got a lot to get to this afternoon. two of our reporters, contributing to that report, nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson following the latest from the white house and julia aimsl ain. we we spoke a couple hours ago, one of your question es, would the president have anything to say aboard air force one. did we know? >> reporter: he did not. literally, ten minutes ago, chris, right before i walked out to s...

Legal standard when a president needs to be interviewed and considering things like timing, and the format of any kind of discussion with the special counsel, if, in fact, robert mueller and his team decide he want to ask for this kind of interview from donald trump. now, there are some caveats to this. one, preliminary, ongoing. these discussions have been going ons we know the special counsels team, the presidents legal team end of the month, december, met. a week-long conversation and three, ...