i do believe that mr. trump rog recognizes it s getting tighter around him and the mueller investigation is now coming to some type of conclusion. whether it is in the coming weekends or coming months, but i m sure he feels quite vulnerable whether it s for himself or for his family or for his close associates. the president s consideration of answering robert mueller s questions comes as president trump s associates, including roger stone and jerome corsi have said they expect to be indicted by robert mueller. after a break, former watergate assistant special prosecutor jill wine-banks and former prosecutor will join us with their views of what happens when and if the president does give robert mueller written answers to some of his questions. to some of his questions
i do believe that mr. trump recognizes it s getting tighter around him and the mueller investigation is now coming to some type of conclusion. whether it is in the coming weekends or coming months, but i m sure he feels quite vulnerable whether it s for himself or for his family or for his close associates. the president s consideration of answering robert mueller s questions comes as president trump s associates, including roger stone and jerome corsi have said they expect to be indicted by robert mueller. after a break, former watergate assistant special prosecutor jill wine-banks and former prosecutor will join us with their views of what happens when and if the president does give robert mueller written answers to some of his questions. i am a family man.
among the mueller hires to date, a former u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virgini virginia. a watergate assistant special prosecutor, has been a democratic contributor. also another democratic donor and deputy assistant attorney general and lisa paige, who serves in the fbi office of the general counsel. when i asked the office of special counsel this morning whether these hires are compromised by politics, a representative noted that federal law prohibits a special counsel from taking political affiliation into its hiring. julie, back to you. julie: thank you very much. jon: still ahead, a top democrat in the house saying the president wants to take down robert mueller but is criticizing the special counsel the right move? we will debate. plus, g.o.p. senators meeting behind closed doors to craft a
would do that violated the law. preventing that what happening by firing mueller and presumably congress would try to get another special prosecutor appointed would slow down that training. jon: you seem to be suggesting that the president should let robert mueller just do his job. that would be my advice. i think allies of the president will always criticize the prosecutor, that is straight out of the clinton playbook, the clinton administration spent years demonizing ken starr and it pretty effective. i m just saying that legally, i would tell the president to simply let the investigation go forward and let his allies do whatever criticism they want to do. jon: what about the fact that robert mueller is staffing with a lot of lawyers who have made significant contributions to democratic politicians? again, i think allies of the
watergate assistant special prosecutor, mr. dean, echo or denial or nothing s the same. where do you stand? i see some interesting parallel. obviously the russian break-in was a little different than the watergate break-in itself. it was a hacking versus a bugging and ransacking of the files but they obviously deal both with the dnc. i think that s where the comparison comes from, chris. and from there, there s clear i don t ever coverups going on. no one is coming forwardon and confessing this. and that s watergate. this time around, i m not sure. i think some of the disruption of the dnc, the palmieri thing, the poddesta, i know it was just