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Needed to know his intent before making certain decisions in his presidency. and of course we know what that refers to, is the firing of james comey. and at this point mueller has not changed his mind, and the trump team remains pretty entrenched about not having the president testify as you keep hearing publicly from giuliani. >> gloria, thanks very much. more legal aid now. john dean. he has seen these things from the inside. he was white house counsel to president nixon. what does it say the ...

Kind of a lull. because the mueller team and the trump team were on very different places. so they had a meeting on march 5th and another one on march 12th. but at the march 5th meeting, im told by a source, mueller reiterated that he needed to see the president, he needed to talk to the president because he needed to know his intent before making certain decisions in his presidency. and of course we know what that refers to, is the firing of james comey. and at this point mueller has not change...

Pressure, hes not aware of things happening on the world stage. do you think hell be more aggressive seeking the interview? >> hes going to have to make decisions that have political consequence. whether its around the election, and more acutely the north korea thing. if the president was going to north korea and mueller said, look, ive had enough of these negotiations, i want to subpoena him. would it be in the back of muellers mind, if i did this during these negotiations before or even after ...

Special counsel probe would be wrapped up by september 1 if the president agrees to do an interview. do you think its a good idea for either the mueller probe or for rudy giuliani to try to put a date on it and to leave the president out there for an entire hot summer with the continued discussion on this? >> it will be a really hot summer. if giuliani has these conversations with mueller where he is getting big information about the big picture, you tell your clint but im not sure you want to t...

Subpoenas to jason sullivan, a man who worked as a former social media adviser to roger stone. mueller, of course, we know has cast a very wide net, we know that he is very interested in talking to a number of former trump associates and that he is interested possibly in connections between roger stone and wikileaks founder julian assange. now, roger stone told cnn yesterday this man, jason sullivan, only worked for him for two months and he said as far as i know, all of his social media activit...

I would imagine at some point muellers team will be able decipher it. my expertise is what the russians were up to. i can say for sure the russians were up to no good. >> i suspect muellers team fully already knows and probably has known for a long time who that blocked phone call went to. the presidents private residence at trump tower was a blocked phone. when do you think the president actually learned about that trump tower meeting and the russian offer of dirt on hillary clinton? >> its ent...

About the team that mueller put -- strike that. the team that mueller put together when you talk to people in legal circles recognize there is a lot of talent and lengthy resumes with a lot of experience on that team. the idea that the brushback pitch will throw them off kilter i think is not realistic. does it feed narratives? no question about it. you have heard the president say it i think he said it in a speech about an hour and a half later. the interesting element is how they handle this. ...

Intelligence services hacked into the dnc commuters and used the information to advance its own interest, destabilizing the u.s. political environment and supporting donald trump. in the trump campaign, russia found a willing and active partner in this effort. it goes on from there. at length and in detail spelling out the allegation. here is the thing. a lot of people who have been watching robert mueller and the special counsel investigation closely, a lot of people who are close on sebservers...

A lot of people who have been watching robert mueller and the special counsel investigation closely, a lot of people who are close observers believe, have come to expect that at some point mueller will probably bring indictments that relate to the hack of the dnc. i dont say that because i have insider information. i dont. when mueller indicted the russians a couple of months ago, it was not for the break-in of the dnc hack, but the indictment can of all of the russians a couple of months ago wa...

In the southern district, there was a magistrate, a judge to look into is this. so it wasnt just mueller on his own deciding to do this tbut -- >> im talking about the political public -- which is ultimately what all these things come down to, right? youre sort of -- i think up to this point muellers been very tight on this stuff. this is a dramatic move. thats not speculation. we all believe this is dramatic. this is serious. if you dont find something, if you go to these lengths or find someth...