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Questions, and he had a right to give that to the president in a lawyer/client privilege way. if someone in the white house leaked that, they may have breached the privilege, too, but we know this white house leaks, like we said, we know this white house leaks like a sieve. >> that brings the other question, would they prevail in a court, which alan dershowitz brought up earlier, which is waiver. the president may have waived that small area of law that protects him, his deliberative process, pr...

Reasons why doing this would interfere with the presidents work. >> earlier the "washington post" was reporting that according to their reporting, the president is now thinking of not going for an interview, not complying. that he doesnt think its a good idea. is is that what youre hearing as well? >> that is exactly what were hearing. i think its become abundantly clear that the presidents legal team is getting ready for a standoff, really, on a subpoena. because if a subpoena does come, there ...

A story broke that made that a false statement. because part of the allegations made in one of the affidavits was verified by a manu -- whats manus name? manu raju, a great guy, by the way, and does a great job. the allegations incorporated in some of the complaints held against admiral jackson were validated in that. so it looks like there has been a story that corroborates the fact that there were some of those allegations which were correct. i did my job. every senator has the responsibility ...

United states, you know, theyre not nearly as careful as they should be with just sticking to the facts. >> ambassador haas, fareed zakaria, thanks. up next, the drama here at home over dr. ronny jackson, with drew his name as v.a. nominee. no longer the presidents personal physician but president trump still supports dr. jacksen and feels that hes been treated unfairly by a democrat on capitol hill. wait until you hear what the senate chairman of the veteran affairs committee has to say about...

Very drastic thing. this needs to be resolved through the political process, so i think he stares down that barrel of the senate chamber. >> then he repeats what hes said all along. no collusion, no collusion. our administration has fully cooperated with the mueller investigation. if thats the case, i hope it is, lets put it all out there. go before robert mueller, answer all these questions, put this behind us, lets focus on the midterm elections. the problems is he has a loose association with...

Michael zeldin mentioned before, muellers team has briefed all of these constitutional questions. they know exactly every nuance, theyre supreme court clerks, theyre scholars, theyre prosecutors. they will win. so ultimately the president is going to lose, even, i think, on the law. >> i think the legal route, fighting this legally, does help the president, because it just takes it into a place where the public goes. there is some kind of thing going on. had there been some evidence out there th...

Before the break we heard the new reporting from evan perez and pamela brown that the presidents legal team is preparing for a legal shutdown with special counsel robert mueller. bracing for a legal fight that could go all the way to the supreme court. this is a dumb question, but the president doesnt actually have to be served with a subpoena, correct, asha? >> we were just talking about that. i just want to say this legal showdown that may be coming is both -- it could be a smart thing to do o...

Because he doesnt stay on top of it. >> hes attacking mueller in the investigation every day, to no avail, by the way. in the abc poll a few weeks ago, 69% of americans said they had confidence of mueller looking into the collusion issue, 54% into the noncollusion business issue. thats hes attacking rosen, hes attacking the fbi. he knows that. >> we keep making this mistake and it gets back to my big theme in gas lighting america. we think donald trump needs to fight on facts because were used t...

Then all the way to the supreme court. look, i think its something the supreme court has previously said, presidents can be subpoenaed, but the circumstances here are a lot different from some of those previous cases. >> evan, thank you very much. we go to jeff zeleny at the white house. there was press briefings where the thought of a subpoena has come up many times. what exactly is the public stance the white house has taken on this? >> reporter: the public stance was that the white house toda...

Collusion, they believe there is an entirely different reality happening that he has created. until we fully understand how that process works, were going to keep making the mistake of saying, what does he say in the deposition? >> is robert mueller the one person he cant gaslight? >> it becomes a defensive move. donald trump is very effective at a defensive measure when hes creating his own narrative. gaslighting doesnt work when youre not in complete control. thats why everybody has to underst...