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I mean, theyre negotiating terms. theyre negotiating the length of the interview, the subject matter. i dont know about two subjects unless those subjects are collusion and obstruction, but i wouldnt be surprised that he is negotiating with them about what the subjects are going to be in an attempt to get them to finally sit down. >> daniel, what would make the president less valuable? what would be muellers motivation to agree to a narrower list? >> well, to me it indicates hes not looking for ...

An attempt to get them to finally sit down. >> daniel, what would make the president less valuable? what would be muellers motivation to agree to a narrower list? >> well, to me it indicates hes not looking for a long fight, and he doesnt really want to subpoena him. there could be two reasons to do that. one is hes just not that important a witness for the ongoing investigations. on the obstruction side -- >> really? >> well, on the obstruction side, its really to hear him out and give him an o...

Matter. i dont know about two subjects unless those subjects are collusion and obstruction, but i wouldnt be surprised that he is negotiating with them about what the subjects are going to be in an attempt to get them to finally sit down. >> daniel, what would make the president less valuable? what would be muellers motivation to agree to a narrower list? >> well, to me it indicates hes not looking for a long fight, and he doesnt really want to subpoena him. there could be two reasons to do that...

The impeachment, he lost his arkansas bar license and he wasnt allowed to practice in front of the u.s. supreme court because an attorney cannot represent a client in this case of donald trump who is going to perjure himself, lie and defraud a court. and that is whats coming together in the trump world and it might be his ultimate unraveling. >> donna, something else a witness pointed out to me today is that the constant refrain is collusion isnt a crime. the other constant refrain on the obstru...

Obstruction. there are investigators that have focused on collusion and others that have focused on finances. so these have all gone at the same time. theyve moved together different prosecutors working on different things. i think these are things that have been running all along. on the obstruction side, there are only so many events to look at. the president has only been in office for so much time and they have gone through a lot of these things and spoken to a lot of the key players there. ...

Indictment. youre going through it now as we all are. help us understand your sense of significance of it. >> for me, whats significant is that bob muellers investigation has focused on two separate elements. one is the obstruction post election and what happened prior to the election. this conspiracy between the russians and the trump campaign to influence that election. and i know over the past several weeks and months the obstruction side has gotten a lot of attention. what this brings us bac...

Obstruction side and then you know, you can always come back to collusion later. so when youre watching this pyramid stack up, every time you do an interview, every time you bring in more evidence, youre now building the base, so if you were suddenly removed, out of nowhere, you can say, this is what i got done. >> welcome to 2018. you can always come back to collusion later. it is what former federal prosecutor wrote in politico. he writes, trumps desire to fire mueller despite knowing that fir...

Fire mueller, then hed go about doing it. on the other hand, if we see them shrinking from that criticism, its a signal that its out of his mind and he knows by this revelation that it will be an extremely unwise and unpopular move. >> but is it not impossible to read those signals? because youre talking about a week when you see members of the gop go after the fbi, go after a text with a secret society, forgetting if youre in a secret society, you never say it is a secret society. so there isnt...

Tremendous powers. and a lot of secret information that might lead to more or not based on what hes got. >> thats right. for example, on the obstruction side of things which today was not about, i think hes much further about and i think he knows where to go to get what he might need to complete that case. but on russia and the enter sxrengs the trump campaigns involvement, where we are now, it is not far enough for me to fill out the facts. >> same first question to you. >> to me what i was str...

Important realize hickss portion of the investigation is more on the obstruction side of things. she was also reportedly involved in the crafting a statement so when trump tower news broke you kushner and trump jr. with a russian lawyer the president of th united states was supposedly involved in crafting a statement that his son made that turned out to be highly misleading planned mueller is investigating that and hicks is involved in that statement so her pieces of this investigation have real...