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Theyll not do the interview. all right, enough is enough. i can see here that we are not going to come to terms on the interview, i am going to subpoena the president. setting off this fight or do the presidents lawyer come back and say formally, say, look, we are not going to do that. are we at a breaking point or will they continue to negotiate. there is some question. does mueller want us to subpoena the president closer to the m midter midterms. i think there are some thoughts that mueller w...

To speak openly with mueller. mueller has learned these things from that into michael schmidt one of the by lines along with maggie haberman in that "new york times" article, the headline breaking at this moment, trump ordered mueller fired but backed off when white house counsel threatened to quit. thank you so much for popping on the phone, michael. appreciate it. i want to go back to barbara mckad and asawin. the idea, barbara, that the white house has allows their folks to talk to mueller ...

One of the reporters that broke the story "the new york times," a remarkable bit of reporting, michael. >> well, if you look back at june, its a month after mueller has been appointed and the white house has experienced the firing of comey and seen the enormous impact that that will. and mcgahn was deeply concerned about it and was willing to put his job on the line to try and stop it. >> you have four different people telling this. what was the context or the trigger for the president wanting t...

Abreal rule of law questions, what does that say about what hes learned over the course of his presidency about the rule of law and about what he did wrong in firing comey? >> well, i guess he didnt make the same mistake twice. i guess that shows hes a little bit coachable, that he ultimately took the advice of white house counsel. if its true that white house counsel had to threaten to resign to get him to stop, then maybe he was just limiting his political damage at that point realizing how ba...

Sure i understand the detail here that your report suggests or i think it says that mueller himself and their team found out about this in the course of their investigation into the possibility of obstruction. >> correct. the -- you have to understand mueller spent the past several months interviewing many white house officials about the presidents conduct to try and understand the presidents motivations, why did he fire comey and so obsessed with having someone loyal that oversaw the russia inv...

Frequently with russia and michael schmidt one of the authors of the piece why just russia? why did they talk so often to russia? >> why were they talking so often to the country that was trying to influence the election. >> right. >> by hacking into the democratic national committee? im sorry. there are really no good explanations for that. they can say what they want to say but no good explanations. >> on our show, he couldnt criticize vladimir putin, candidate trump. he just couldnt do it. >>...