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Remedy currently you cant indict a sitting president, lets stipulate that for a moment. i know its slightly contested -- that ultimately, thats all that matters. this will ultimately be fought on political terrain. what do you think of that? >> no question. but that political terrain will be framed by the legal. >> right. >> case that is put forward and confusing the public now is not going to help when the bombs explode and the evidence is splattered all over the front page. >> giuliani had an ...

The law. i think its important to remember the context this is going on. right now there is a special master in the michael cohen case reviewing eight boxes of documents, cell phones, blackberries and ipad to see whether there is evidence of wrongdoing in the trump organization by michael cohen at some point that could implicate trump. simply, we also learned that mueller last week in those 49 questions was just last week that one of the things he is looking at is trumps business relationships w...

Trump to twoef be a serious distraction to his work eating into time he needs to deal with serious global issues. >> let me just say this is one president who does not have that argument. he has purposely gone to l.a. to file a case against an individual he says he never had an affair with who he doesnt really know anything about, but yet he can involve himself in that case. >> thats a decent argument, actually. i had forgotten about that. >> and then he spends half his time on the golf course. ...

Its europe. its russia. there are a ton of different players. but this news about the russian oligarch, who got pulled off his plane by mueller that is significant. according to my sources, he is considered a fairly stand-up business guy as you can be in russia. he is not generally accused of the kind of, you know, bribery and moneylaundering that many, many other oligarchs, or at least not to the extent that others are. he was, though, at trumps inauguration, which raised a lot of questions. wh...

Its the judicial system. and when the judicial system led by robert mueller with all of the evidence that he is gathering decides that weve got to straighten this out, rudy has made it even more important to figure out what did the president really know and when did he know it about all of these interrelated money schemes makes it all the more necessary to have the presidents personal testimony, which is why the case for a subpoena is stronger by virtue of this supposed defense. i mean, theyre r...

Going on. right now there is a special master in the michael cohen case reviewing eight boxes of documents, cell phones, blackberies and ipad to see whether there is evidence of wrongdoing in the trump organization by michael cohen at some point that could implicate trump. simply, we also learned that mueller last week in those 49 questions was just last week that one of the things he is looking at is trumps business relationships with russia. so rudy giuliani is confusing everybody about talkin...

According to my sources, he is considered a fairly stand-up business guy as you can be in russia. he is not generally accused of the kind of, you know, bribery and moneylaundering that many, many other oligarchs, or at least not to the extent that others are. he was, though, at trumps inauguration, which raised a lot of questions. why was he there? why was he given priority seating, for example? and he -- it just raises more questions about what the trump campaigns ties were to these wealthy rus...

What to do. the fact of the matter is if he gets subpoenaed, the supreme court is going to tell him hes got to testify. >> right. >> i mean, u.s. v nixon is right on point. the supreme court in that case said the public has the right to every persons evidence unless theyre going to take a privileged -- some kind of privilege like the fifth amendment and refuse to testify. thats it. he is going to have to testify. >> youve reported on the president and rudy giuliani quite a bit. what is that rela...

Gets subpoenaed, the supreme court is going to tell him hes got to testify. >> right. >> i mean, u.s. v nixon is right on point. the supreme court in that case said the public has the right to every persons evidence unless theyre going to take a privileged -- some kind of privilege like the fifth amendment and refuse to testify. thats it. he is going to have to testify. >> youve reported on the president and rudy giuliani quite a bit. what is that relationship like? >> well, i mean, it is very i...

>> let me just say this is one president who does not have that argument. he has purposely gone to l.a. to file a case against an individual he says he never had an affair with who he doesnt really know anything about, but yet he can involve himself in that case. >> thats a decent argument, actually. i had forgotten about that. >> and then he spends half his time on the golf course. this is one president who cannot make the bill clinton argument that it would take up to much of his time. >> in a...