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And of course it relates to russian meddling, it relates to russias attempts to interfere in the u.s. election. we will hopefully have another shot later on today when he departs for bedminster, andrea. >> and michael schmidt, youve got a lot of reporting, you and your team as well, that robert mueller has been asking people about the whole issue of the presidents tweets and whether that could play into a potential obstruction issue. give us the background there. >> yeah, so the president has sa...

Does robert mueller make the tactical decision of do i subpoena this president? >> i think the mueller team has probably concluded and i think they would be right, if they do subpoena him they win that court case. but it takes time. and the white house view, and they may not be wrong about this, time is working on their side. the longer they can draw this out while appearing to blame mueller for, it the longer in the public mind the russia investigation has been going on and the more appetite th...

But it takes time. and the white house view, and they may not be wrong about this, time is working on their side. the longer they can draw this out while appearing to blame mueller for, it the longer in the public mind the russia investigation has been going on and the more appetite there is for the presidents argument its time to bring this to an end. so mueller isnt away fighting the clock. and is he prepared to use up the amount of time it would take to litigate? how much value does he think ...

Whether the former fbi director james comey was asked directly by the president to go easy on flynn or to let this thing go. lets listen to this exchange. >> he didnt direct him to do that. what he said to him was -- >> comey said he took it as direction. >> well, by that time, he had been fired. and he said a lot of other things, some of which have turned out to be untrue. the reality is, as a prosecutor, i was told that many times. can you give the man a break? either by his lawyers, by his re...

Is, pardoning everybody, but that was before all of the indictments that came out. at this point in time, they would not be -- paul: hes attempt to go cover up even though theres nothing to cover snup. >> that would be the perception. paul: okay, when you suggested pardoning, you were saying everybody, that including hillary clinton, anybody involved in clinton e-mail case, basically sweep everything of this issue and put it all behind it? >> no, no, entirely behind but one caveat, we were sugge...

Is, pardoning everybody, but that was before all of the indictments that came out. at this point in time, they would not be -- paul: hes attempt to go cover up even though theres nothing to cover snup. >> that would be the perception. paul: okay, when you suggested pardoning, you were saying everybody, that including hillary clinton, anybody involved in clinton e-mail case, basically sweep everything of this issue and put it all behind it? >> no, no, entirely behind but one caveat, we were sugge...

Right? >> yes. >> its going to come out of rudys mouth in an interview one of these days. they acknowledge they arent sure that the president is in the clear on the question of obstruction of justice around the comey firing. >> around the obstruction issue, around the issue if he doesnt sit for an interview or if he does and he ends up in a perjury trial. >> paul? >> the ironic thing is some of the stuff that hes doing now, which is allowing access from his lawyers to these secret documents, acc...

Findings in two different reports, the first report focused on the obstruction issue and the second on collusion. and that could relate to rudy giulianis conclusion that the investigation will be done by september. in the special probe against bill clinton, ken starr tackled all kinds of issues and rolled them up into one giant report and turned it into a drum beat for etimpeachment. >> prosecutors lay out how the president allegedly lied and obstructed justice in both civil and criminal investi...

Involves a global sweep in search of evidence, far more complicated than your average white collar case here in the u.s. is it possible that mueller is -- hes going to have to take a time-out. would september 1 be logical at the beginning of the general election campaign? >> thats not an prosecutors have to deal with often, but you folks in the media talk about labor day, at least you used to, as the beginning of the campaign season. i think it makes sense, yeah, sure. everyone comes back end of...

President said this. watch. >> when you look at the corruption at the top of the fbi its a disgrace. our justice department which i try and stay away from, but at some point i wont. >> every time the president makes comments like these, is he giving mueller more ammunition for an obstruction case? >> i dont know that that speaks to the obstruction issue. it gaflnizes congress and individuals within the justice department to want to stand as firmly as possible in these institutional protectives. ...