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Doc . About the Stormy Daniels hush money deal. Todd blanche repeating the word lie or lying 35 times so far while questioning cohen. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague andrea mitchell. Constantly trying to pin the blame on someone else and hes being asked to answer for past statements where he celebrated the idea of seeing his former boss behind bars. I want to bring back our panel, vaughn hillyard, danny cevallos, catherine christian, and jeremy soland. Okay, jeremy, i just got new stati...

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 t...

Response to the whistleblower not yet having to testify in person. watch. >> why should adam schiff get to call his witnesses and have them come in and testify in a back-and-forth dialogue and yet the whistleblower is supposedly only going to answer questions in a written format. >> laura: i have lindsey graham coming up. im going to ask him the same thing. thats how the lawyers for this whistleblower, i dont know if it really is a whistleblower, really qualifies but will submit written answers....

Whatever that means. >> yes. >> whatever those conclusions are. as of yesterday, the hill was expecting they would be receiving those nsome kind of a written format and not get an oral briefing. its a day so the two were huddled together yesterday and maybe that will change over the course of the day. at this point, we dont know. we are told that the mueller report is comprehensive and we have seen that until all of robert muellers indictments. sort of these story lines essentially leading to th...

Because the mueller investigation continues to drag on and on and the presidents attorneys have been on record as saying that they think its time to draw this whole thing to a close. so where we are right now, the two sides are still talking. the presidents attorneys are making preparations that they think they need to have in place in case there is a deal struck. but there is no deal at the moment. >> melissa: john roberts, thank you for that. for more on all of this, lets bring a democratic co...

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...

Course who has not always been able to stick to the facts so he certainly threatens himself by exposing himself to a risk of perjury. and that is the strategy to have answers in a written format or something in between a formal interview and written answers. >> to jeffrey now, mark meadows, the conservative congressman of the freedom caucus, wants to audit the mueller investigation right now -- presumably to get access to a key rosenstein memo. is this an example of what they call trumps warrior...

Tell me i might not do anymore until the end of the week. well have to see if that holds. but, look, he clearly sees himself as someone who not only has legal strategy, but you heard him kind of talk about the fact theres a political strategy. i said do you see yourself as the presidents spokesperson? he said absolutely not thats sara sanders job and shes doing a very good job. one more thing ill say, giuliani says that mueller rejected their proposal to have the president respond to questions i...

The trump teams request to respond in a written format. they are planning to issue a counter proposal by next week. >> thank you both so very much. in less than two hours the president will announce his decision on resort fiing the iran deal. hes made it clear where he stands pup. >> the iran deal made by the previous administration is one of the worst deals ive ever witnessed. identify witnessed some beauties. im not going to be a john kerry who makes that horrible iran deal. horrible. one of t...

Parameters of an interview. the preference of the special counsel for it to be under oath. trumps legal steam arguing for more of a written format. >> justice department guidelines say a sitting president cant be charged with a crime. so is this mere lay technicality when they say he is not the target of an investigation? >> well, it is a technicality but one meeting behind it. he is will not the just a witness and a bystander in all of this. they have him as some sort of subject of this inquiry...