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Special counsel robert mueller. i want to bring in now asha rangappa, jack quinn, and garrett graff. good evening. lets get right into this. asha, you first because cnn is reporting about these written answers, the one that the president reportedly gave to mueller. he says roger stone didnt tell him about wikileaks. he wasnt told about the trump tower meeting between don junior and the russians and others. two questions for you. do you believe it? and, two, can robert mueller prove otherwise? >>...

Key answers president trump gave in writing to questions from special counsel robert mueller. i want to bring in now asha rangappa, jack quinn, and garrett graff. whos the author of "the threat matrix." good evening. lets get right into this. asha, you first because cnn is reporting about these written answers, the one that the president reportedly gave to mueller. he says roger stone didnt tell him about wikileaks. he wasnt told about the trump tower meeting between don junior and the russians ...

Papadopoulos is to turn himself in to report to prison. >> he has asked a federal judge to pause his sentence. he did not succeed at that. do you know why he wanted this and why the judge said no? >> basically its because of a roger stone associate, who has been subpoenaed by mueller. weve been hearing a lot about roger stone and where that investigation is. this associate of roger stone is suing the mueller team essentially, trying to say they have no authority to conduct this investigation. as...

To be charged as a defendant. we typically talked about the president as not being a target only because his status as president protects him from indictment. but of course he could be indicted after he left office, he could potentially be impeached. his status here may color that question of whether mueller wants to seek a subpoena. >> so jill, through the lens of history where do you see where we are in this investigation? obviously mueller knew there was an investigation coming, he knew the o...

Contemplate whether he wants to issue a subpoena and have that fight which undoubtedly will go all the way to supreme court, and theres an additional twist to it. the problem is this, typically doj prosecutors dont issue a subpoena and require targets of investigations to testify in grand jury. a target is someone whos going to be charged as a defendant. we typically talked about the president as not being a target only because his status as president protects him from indictment. but of course ...

He hasnt made any efforts whatsoever that we know of to even get involved in this probe whatever. >> what do we know? >> muellers team says specifically in their filing that it doesnt impact the powers they have. and in that motion, i think youre right in that this motion was about whether muellers appointment -- or i should stones challenge is about whether muellers appointment was lawful or not. theyre basically saying hes a super u.s. attorney and has the powers of a u.s. attorney, and theref...

States attorney from iowa. he was chief of staff to the attorney general. he knows the department. theres nothing unlawful about his appointment. he hasnt made any efforts whatsoever that we know of to even get involved in this probe whatever. >> what do we know? >> muellers team says specifically in their filing that it doesnt impact the powers they have. and in that motion, i think youre right in that this motion was about whether muellers appointment -- or i should stones challenge is about w...

Legal team will instead release written answers to the special counsel and its questions in the russia investigation. the question, of course, after that, is whether muellers team will keep pushing for an in-person, sitdown interview with the president, wolf. it is possible that muellers team wont be satisfied with the answers coming from president trump, coming from the white house, and theyll want more. wolf? >> our white house correspondent, jim acosta, thank you very much. reporting from the...

About obstruction of justice, the firing of james comey while he was president is unresolved. the presidents lawyers have said answering questions about that violates art cal two of the constitution. whether mueller issues a subpoena about that, we dont know. so again even with these written answers, it doesnt end this whole controversy. >> frank, there is mild speculation going on, and it is just speculation, that there could be something happening soon. could be today. its friday. everyones li...

As i understand it relating to the firing of james comey and the like. so that whole issue is unresolved, whether the president will answer any questions at all, whether hell answer questions in writing, whether mueller will actually subpoena the president to get answers. this tortuous process only relates to half the investigation. so this whole issue is far from resolved. >> its interesting. kaitlan, you cover the white house for us. its clearly affecting the president, these three days of int...