Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. There. Its just bad weather, stay there, my friend. Rain, rain, rain. Thank you so much. Joining me now political reporter for the guardian and steph knight, reporter for axios. Ladies, thanks. Sabrina, is there any indication that were getting to the end, the final stretch of whether or not the president will submit to an interview with Robert Mueller . Weve been having the same conversation for months as to what the scope of that interview might look like and the ongoing negotiations with the president s legal team and an interview that would be partially done in person. And then there would perhaps be some questions in written format. So it doesnt really seem like much progress because its something is that we were talking about earlier this year. Whats quite clear is that, the president s legal team does not want him to sit down with the Special Counsel. And i think Rudy Giuliani himself has al
could, or might purchasingerjur. i think it s striking that the president s team doesn t trust him to be forthcoming or tell the truth with federal prosecutors. and i think that s what it s about. zbl steph, i would correct myself, it s not knight. would you have any believe that he would conduct this one-on-one, but if you listen to his legal teams you d think he s having doubts? right, the new york times has recently reported that the president does want to interview with mueller, that he feels that he ll be able to persuade him that he s done nothing wrong. that s something that the president has said over and over again. he s tweeted about it. he doesn t think there s anything to worry about. he thinks maybe sitting down with mueller will prove, look, i m not afraid to do this. there s no collusion. i think i think he s going to try to push his lawyers to