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Present, is that correct? >> they were present in the paula jones civil action but not in the map room with ken starrs 5 1/2-hour grilling of president clinton troops. >> so what is the timing of this of whatever the interview would be tell you about the length or status of the investigation? i would assume that mueller would want to talk to the president toward the end of an investigation after he was already interviewed and has all the information rather than earlier in the investigation or mi...

However, they could also break it up into work streams. so they may come to a conclusion or the point that they are ready to interview the president with respect to the conspiracy to interfere with the election or the obstruction of justice. and they may say to the president, we want to do a discrete interview with you on that topic and reserve the right to come back and talk to you about other top iks, or they could do it in sort of one fell swoop for all topics. so if he were interviewed tomor...

And the department of justice, can you just explain the kind of team he has assembled. its obviously a large number of very experienced attorneys, he has fbi agents, and what is the process of how they conduct interviews, what they do in the field. how extensive is this? >> so bob mueller has essentially assembled a little u.s. attorneys office under the auspices of the special counsel mandate that he has. the people he has brought in are all very experienced prosecutors in the area of fraud and...

Prosecutors, in the area of fraud, and corruption, and counterintelligence. hes got russian speakers as well on his team. hes got agents embedded in the prosecutorial team. they all have work streams. some will be working on the manafort quirly, some will be working on the flynn inquiry, some of them working on the obstruction of justice if thats a line of inquiry. all these teams will be working in parallel to one another. and theyll see as they progress, where the roads intersect. and muellers...

Of investigative work streams that will befall him in this investigation. hes got a lot of different work streams. separate and apart from the counterintelligence stuff. hes got an individual work stream for manafort, individual work stream for flynn. carter page. now hes got donald jr. and jared kushner. so hes got a lot to get up and running. i dont know whether hes convened a grand jury yet. we dont know what documents hes received from the hill or elsewhere. really, hes in the early stages o...

Hes saying that the presidents argument is because theres no collusion, therefore, it would be unlikely that he would even need to be interviewed. does that make sense? >> no, because there are. >> as i said, there are the three work streams. one is the financial crime thing, that has nothing to do with collusion per say. thats money laundering and other illegal activities, ala manafort. then theres obstruction. that has nothing to do with collusion either. did you intend to conduct collusion. h...

>> there are three broad streams that mueller has under inquiry. one is financial crimes, that may be the activities that relate to the donald trump/kushner ecosystem of business and theyre dealings with russian oligarchs and organized crime. the second is conspiracy. we call it collusion, but its conspiracy to defraud the federal election commission or to violate the computer fraud and abuse act, or receiving stolen property styled offenses. and the last is obstruction of justice. those are the...