we have learned that the president's legal team in recent weeks rebuff eed robert mueller request to ask follow-up questions to the president in person. this was after the president and his team had submitted answers to those written questions from before trump was in office. and so sources tell me, my colleagues, evan perez and shimon prokupecz, that robert mueller then followed up and put in this request to ask follow up questions without specifying which questions he wanted to ask to the president in person. that was rebuffed by the president's team. so what is clear here, erin, is that that continues to be a sticking point as robert mueller's probe is winding down. he stimwants to ta s still wank to the president in person. as one source told me, robert mueller is not satisfied. now, we've heard the president's attorney, rudy giuliani, say that a presidential interview would happen over my dead body. and sources are telling our team