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Its better now. if you go back three or four months, its deteriorated. china is blatantly violating sanction and theyre doing that to say to kim jong-uan supply sanction relief. you dont have to get it from president trump. >> steve: i want to stwich to the politics of this. when that moment happened when the summit was temporarily off because of what the chinese did that you spoke about, i thought that was really interesting politically because it showed to me that it feels like the president i...

Love to sit down with robert mueller, nobody wants to sit down with robert mueller more than me but it has to be fair. can you see a scenario where it actually moves the president closer to actually sitting down with special counsel? >> his legal team is not going to let him sit down with the special counsel. there is simply no up side for him, other than it looks like hes being cooperative. as a former fbi agent, i would love for this president to sit down with this interview because he will ti...

Testified in front of a bunch of prosecutors over the years and attorneys over the years. he thinks he could do a very good job. no up side for him speaking to bob mueller. >> bill: giulianis message to me was if you get a subpoena well take you to the u.s. supreme court. they can probably make an argument they might have five votes now that stands up for the executive branch. do you think that is where we are headed? >> its entirely possible. it will be interesting to see whether bob mueller tr...

Pompeos hearings. what stops him from firing mueller? >> i dont understand why as he thinks it through it is anything other than a satisfying gesture. by the grown ups in the room he is being told this is your own nuclear option. and rosenstein will be replaced by somebody. >> you cant fire everybody. >> they are protected by the civil service. you cant fire the investigators. >> i have a partial answer to that good question. i think firing mueller himself would be a very bad idea. no up side ot...

Perjury charges be for the president? >> the president should be very concerned about being charged with a false statement. obviously, there is an. as we know, bill clinton was impeached for matters relating to obstruction of justice. i would tell you if. theres no up side for you, theres all down the road and hes inclined to explore it. i cant see why you would take the time of the president of the united states if you were doing what i think a lot of people, including reportedly john dowd, sai...

There is no up side for trump to defend this guy. there is only downside for trump. the only reason somebody would in that position is a fierce sense of loyalty but its not his dna. >> do you think the president weathers it out with him? >> lets see if the president comes out today or tomorrow and says, i fully stand behind scott pruitt. >> hes toast. thats what we heard right before shulkin was out. thats what we heard right before tillerson was out. he sent a tweet i am very happy with my lawy...

Understand because he is trying to protect his family, image, things like that. but it was definitely like, wow, youre going to lie about that? okay. >> the bombshell interview anderson coming up sunday when we hear from stormy daniels in that "60 minutes" interview. will president trump remain silent about these allegations? i want to bring back in cnn political analyst maggie haberman. i think the answer is, yes, the president remains silent here. >> this is funny for a couple of reasons i thi...

You everything they need to know. the idea this is in the spir if of transparency -- >> look at the up side. what if we get the opportunity to get rid of a couple bad apples where we find out -- >> youre not going tomorrow the material the judge considered. even when you look at the memo, you wont know whether the judge did his job in approving the fisa application. >> going to have to have the last word. >> the american public. >> thank you, gentlemen and women as well. thank you so much. comin...

So, the selective reasoning now of suggesting that now is the appropriate time to open the curtain and reveal what goes into a fisa application just seems very convenient. >> its a good point. fisa was just renewed. republican lawmakers had ample opportunity to review the fisa law in congress and yet voted for renewal of the 702 protections, which is really the background. >> it may be different if what we were looking at was the application for the warrant versus a memo created by a partisan in...

Investigation overall? >> im not sure about that. i mean everything is sort of upside -- ive never seen washington like this. everythings sort of up side down. i dont know that theres a strategy to undermine it. i do think that the president feels vulnerable, and feels uncomfortable with some of the things that have come out, and people have a tendency when they feel backed into a wall, that they think everyone is the same way. so then he has -- might feel everyone in the fbi has a problem. just...