and his attorney said it should not happen and he said i d like to sit down and answer questions directly with mueller. i m sure he d like to but probably not a good legal strategy. the thing should be written questions and answers. going into a room and having the freedom to ask anything he want and getting him conversational is not a good idea. there s a trap set if he does and his lawyers will tell him no matter how good he is in the setting of speaking his mind, these people have their own agenda and it ain t to help him. sandra: the most recent shake-up is given the media to run with a chaos theme we ve seen lately. is thus this a white house in chaos is there turmoil?
like a spontaneous result response from the subject that you re hoping to interview. so i think written questions and answers is something mueller will reject without hand. there are a lot of other variables. how long the interview would be. what subjects would be covered. would there be a transcript. who else would be present. would it be tape recorded? videotaped? all of those are subject to negotiation. but written questions and answers, i can t believe mueller s team would go for that. what do you think of the fear of his lawyers, if he were to sit down, he potentially could lie, there might be perjury, they don t want him to do it. you heard what joe biden, the former vice president just said. well, joe biden hasn t practiced law for a long time, but i think he certainly understands the issues here. you know, it is, at once, a legal issue, but it s also a political issue. if this president were under investigation in a criminal matter, but he wasn t president, his lawyers wo
lawyers are in active negotiations with representatives of the special couns counsel s office. there was some talk about written questions and answers. nobody thinks that mueller will sit still for that. if you have an answer, you ll want a follow up to the answers. so you couldn t do that. so they will sit down, you know, as you say, if they sit down in an interview, you don t have to put him under oath. any lie to the fbi is a crime as we saw because george papadopoulos and michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. there s talk about the length of the interview, there s talk about what subject matter, how broad the scope will be. you got to figure the president eventually will be sitting down with robert mueller and his investigators in person to answer questions. if he doesn t, remember, mueller could go to a judge and get a court order and subpoena him to
team if the scope were limited. why? because essentially what he could do typically what a pra pra prosecutor wants to do is ask the main or central person questions after they have already obtained all of their other evidence in the case. you know, we know mueller has been investigating a lot of different things in addition to the issue of obstruction, there s also the trump tower meeting or a facebook search warrant or a number of other financial issues he has been investigating. he may not be ready to explore all of those issues at this point. what he really, i think, at this point will be doing is focusing on the obstruction issue. if he had to ask questions on every subject, he may not be prepared to do that. what it may mean, just like president clinton, you know, president trump might be interviewed multiple times. put yourself on the defense, you are a prosecutor but put
erectile dysfunction drug on children a strategy to get an extension on the drug s patent about to expire, a strategy that essentially gained the company a six-month extension for the lucrative drug that makes about $2 billion a year. but despite being hammered by democrats, all of that, we do expect that the republicans will show him unanimous support as this confirmation hearing is set to get under way in just about five minutes or so. all right. rene marsh for us in washington, thank you very much. so as the questions about the president s fitness for office continue to be raised by democrats mostly, moments from now house speaker paul ryan will answer questions. will he be asked about it? what will he say?