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Lawyers, rudy giuliani in an interview with axios said. i dont think they have any evidence of collusion of any kind. i think their obstruction case as a legal matter doesnt exist. so again the white house exuding confidence here. >> and i think thats to be expected. if you are innocent thats what you do convey. to me its entirely credible particularly on the collusion side. if there was evidence of collusion it would have leaked a long time ago. the obstruction issue is an opinion. if the presi...

Questioning. thats just crazy. so if this thing has to be litigated -- for instance, if bob mueller decides he needs the presidents testimony on the obstruction issue and wants to push that issue, itll be decided by a court, not by white house counsel, not by mr. trumps personal lawyers. itll be decided by a court. by the way, for what its worth, i think the court precedents line up nicely for the prosecutors in this. >> david, its jonathan. a question for you. so much has been made about how ro...

And so far the president has been receptive to it, but he is feeling a a little bit relieved in that he has a ally in matt whitaker overseeing the entire thing. >> and jonathan, let me pick up on the point of how this may play hout out, and we are getting a better idea of what the president is dealing with from none other than his own lawyer rudy giuliani who told the washington post that there are some questions that create more situations legally than others and some unnecessary, and some that...

Interested in, it would exclude the obstruction of justice questions, wouldnjames comey a not have been part of the focus of robert mueller. thats a little bit strange given the evolution of this case but not so strange if you consider that that relies on the men re-a, t. he meant what he said or didnt mean, that sure, so im sure there will be the most fruitful and comprehensive responses about things before the obstruction issue, and finally thinking about in the context of when it will come ou...

Written answers to questions that they want to submit to robert mueller as early as this week, were told. although that may slip a little bit. these questions -- the questions theyre answering, ali, pertain only to the issue of russian meddling in the 2016 election. they are not, as far as we know, answering any questions about obstruction of justice. trumps lawyer, rudy giuliani, has previously said he thought those questions were off limits, although he was a little more equivocal in an interv...

And also what happened during the comey takedown. thats an obstruction issue. i suspect theyve interviewed him already and have what they need. >> its one thing to interview a sitting attorney general. its another thing to interview a guy whos just been fired. he might be willing to open up. >> its not team toobin. its the team journalists over there -- >> jeffrey, suzann makes an interesting point. its one thing to be interviewed as a sitting attorney general. its another to be interviewed as a...

The dog. he said, he wasnt do anything to the dog, but he was concerned randy was not taking proper care of the dog. >> what could mueller charge stone with and would it be pressure on stone to cooperate? >> the legal issue here, as you know, we are waiting to see if muellers team brings charges against randy stone and it is possible they could bring something related to collusion if they can pin down he had some kind of contact with wikileaks, that he shared information with trumps inner circle...

Anything, its to have a quick trigger on false statement issues. and has charged several people with them for things that maybe they wouldnt have charged for. so the president is not someone whos obsessed with the facts and if youre going to go before bob mueller, you better be obsesseded with the facts. >> not obsessed with the fact and hes watched almost everyone that has come into robert muellers net be charged and ultimately plead guilty and cooperate. >> its interesting, when i was looking ...

Finally bob mueller handed them a bunch of questions because you cant claim executive privilege preinauguration. the lawyers are busy writing these responses like a tame home test they are doing for the president using documents submitted to bob mueller. the big question is, what are they going to do about obstruction and the question that comes after he became president? >> does this mean there is no way the president is going to sit for a face-to-face interview? >> not at all. in this arrangem...

Written answers on questions about campaign collusion with russia. back with our own team on this. so "the new york times" report was the original one who reported that mueller is going to accept written questions as part of their investigation for russian interference, but not written questions about obstruction of justice. is that right? >> he didnt say -- from what we know is he didnt say anything on obstruction. so that is still a question out there. and, look, while the presidents lawyers d...