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Without it. >> this hemming and hawing by giuliani where it looks like he and muellers team are going back and forth, and we dont know whether thats true or not because muellers team are so mum and whether this is giuliani playing to the cameras. but i am curious, mueller could end this, as you just said, if he decides, you know what, im going to split the baby here. ill do the subpoena that i know i can win, which is to question him about all of his actions as a candidate. and i punt the questi...

Standing by for a live statement from republican congressman chris collins who pled not guilty to insider trading and lie toi -- lying to the fbi. well have live coverage. and also tonight rudy guiliani said mr. trumps legal team has responded to the special counsel robert mueller about a possible interview with the president for the russia investigation. lets dig deeper with our correspondents and analysts. dana, you have been doing recording on this, is it realistic that the president will d...

Choice, because of their clients wishes and to keep the negotiations going. >> what message, david axelrod, would it send to the american public if the president were to refuse to do a sitdown interview with the legally appointed special counsel investigating russian interference in the u.s. presidential election. >> i think the majority of the american public -- it was in a negative message weve seen poll after poll suggesting people think he should. if asked. but to his bases been spending two...

Wrapped up by. now, while giuliani would not go into the details of the counter offer. he did tell fox news its not a refusal, but at the same time, its not a completely unreasonable position i can see a way he told me in which they, mueller, may agree with it giuliani says the chances of mueller accepting the offer depend on two things. how much they want an interview with the president and b, the degree to which they are willing to say this may be our last chance to get the sitdown with the pr...

Far afield from those types of topics. there is a political sitdown for the base. the president may not even need to do that anymore in terms of getting following because of whats going on. is he playing ball by answering back to mueller. >> excellent point. >> why should the president sit down when he is not being accused -- i say there is no evidence that he colluded. now, collusion. >> harris: or conspire. >> not a legal definition not under title 18. >> harris: why do they even use that term...

>> do i think there will ever be a sitdown with the president? i dont. as strong willed as the president is, i think rudy giuliani is going to explain to him this is a treacherous situation for you. >> dana: maybe he will throw himself in front of the door and say no, you are not doing this. >> might come to that. >> dana: i want to ask you about the gates testimony in the manafort trial. did you think he was a convincing witness? >> i did. i wasnt in the courtroom. thanks to peter doocy and our...

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Welcome back, everybody. im yasmin vossoughian alongside louis bergdorf. lets start with the mornings top stories. president trumps oldest son speaking out about his 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer at trump tower on the heels of his fathers about-face on the sitdown. don trump jr. is down playing the meeting after the president admitted it was about getting dirt on hilary clinton. peter alexander has more on this shifting story. >> reporter: president trump on vacation, but hardly in vacation...

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Later we learned exactly the opposite. president trumps legal team wrote in a memo to the special counsel robert mueller and i quote: have you received all the notes, communications and testimony indicating that the president dictate add short but accurate response to the "new york times" article on behalf of his son donald trump jr. he dictated it sanders did not answer questions about how that could be that districted her original statement, which it did. instead she referred reporters to outs...