To talk to special counsel Mitch Mcconnell bob mueller. Just before leaving for the summit in davos, switzerland. Surprised reporters. They were being briefed by Immigration Reform by other members of the white house. The president opened the door and waukds in. Youll hear all that he had to say. Because he took quite a few questions but here he is when asked about willing to speak with muellers team. Im looking forward to it. There has been no collusion whatsoever. No obstruction whatsoever. And im looking forward to it. I do worry when i look at all of the things that you people dont report about, with whats happening. If you take a look at, you know, five months worth of missing texts, thats a lot of missing texts. And as i said yesterday, thats prime time. So you do sort of look at that and say whats going on. You do look at certain texts where they talk about insurance policies or insurance where they say the kind of things they are saying, you have to be concerned. But i would love to do that. Id like to do that as soon as possible. Do you have a date set . So heres the deal no, i dont know. A couple of weeks but i would love to do that. Subject to my lawyers i would love to do it. Would you like to do it under oath . Who said that . I said it. You say a lot. Did hillary do it under oath . I dont know. I think you know. Do you really not have an idea . Ill give you idea. She didnt do it under oath. But ill do it under oath. And you no he she didnt do it under oath, right . If you didnt know about hillary, then you are not much of a reporter. You would do it under oath . Oh, i would do it under oath, absolutely. So there is a lot of other questions to come. But lets talk about this. Obviously the big caveat is yes he would do it under oath. Comes a day after mueller is thinking about interviewing the people, about firing of jim comey and possible behavior. He did not answer directly like tonight. Would you be willing to meet with him without condition . Ill speak to attorneys. I can only say this, there was absolutely no collusion. Would you be open to it . Well see what happens. Certainly ill see what happens. But when they have no collusion and nobody has found any collusion at any level, it seems unlikely that you would even have an interview. Pamela brown is outfront tonight at the white house. So, pam, i know you were in the room. Plenty of topics talked about. Well talk about them all and playing this audio. But the president had to say about bob mueller coming at Crucial Point at russia probe. You have been covering that from the beginning. You are now covering this president. What more did he have to say tonight in that room. Reporter well, he wanted to make it clear, erin, hes not afraid to go faist to face with Robert Mueller. Because as you heard him say there is no collusion or obstruction of justice. But he also added the cave cave ate that he will do it at the advice of his lawyers. One of them said publicly the deern was it would open up to perjury. Fishing expedition. Sources say Robert Mueller wants to question him on his decision to fire james comey as former security adviser michael flynn. He would asked that and left it openended. Willing to do it under oath. And he said as you heard in the tape unlike Hillary Clinton. For our viewers she was interviewed by the fbi voluntary but not under oath. But it is a federal crime to lie to the fbi. He said a couple of weeks, it could happen in two to three weeks, this potential interview with Robert Mueller. I can tell you, erin, sources tell us there is no date set for such an interview. In the early stages of negotiating the terms of any potential interview with the president. And what that interview might look like is still unclear, but you heard him say he would love to do a sit down interview with Robert Mueller special counsel. And now in terms of how all this happened, right, because he also talked here about the fbi, corruption at the fbi, immigration, a whole lot of topics well be playing out throughout the hour. The back story why he was there, because i know he is headed to davos tonight. Very interesting, you are sitting in a room hearing about immigration policy. Then what happens . Thats right. I was fortunate enough to sit next to the door. We were five minutes into the immigration plan, and in comes the president of the united states. And of course all of the reporters jumped up. And immediately started asking questions. And a couple of times he acted like he was going to leave, then we would ask other questions, and he would stick around to answer them. He was seemingly in good spirits, erin, seemed to be jovial and wanted to be there answering reporters questions. As you mention hes going to be heading out to davos to the World Economic forum. And he didnt seem to mind to stand there for 10 or 15 minutes to talk to reporters answering questions on range of topics from immigration to the special counsel. All right. Thank you very much, pamela, and as i said well play there for you. As this audio comes in, reporters happened to be rolling audio because they were briefed on immigration. So when the president came in they were already rolling. Thats why we have all of this. Outfront now with us is our panel. Mark preston. John dean, so you heard the president , id love to do it, again id have to say subject to my lawyers. Is it he really looking forward to it and love to do it . Or is all that matters hes giving that impression and saying subject to my lawyers . That is it a big caveat hes put in this. His lawyers will probably negotiate a deal he wont be under oath. They know hes often truth challenged and want to protect him. I think this is a good show on his part that he doesnt mind mixing with mueller. And i dont think hes looking forward to it. But i hope hes better prepared than he usually is when it happens, otherwise hes going to find himself on the wrong side of the law. Right. He said of course in other depositions i spent no time preparing with pride. But whats your takeaway from what he said today . Well, i agree with john. I think this is great public relations. Actually has to be public stance. Because hes been saying its been a witch hunt. If its a witch hunt he shouldnt be afraid to be questioned . Right. So this is perfectly skibt with his description of this entire inquiry. I think the caveat is huge and i would be very interested in seeing whether he goes through with this likely his lawyers will tell him he shouldnt. And its grates pr and absolutely the right thing for him to say. I want to play again twhat pm pointed out. Hillary didnt do that. Here he is. Like hillary did . Who said that. I said it. Oh, you did say it. You say a lot. Did hillary do it under oath . I have no idea. I think you do have an idea. Do you really not have an idea . Ill give you an idea she didnt do it under oath. Of course the point is pamela was making is its a federal crime to lie to the fbi. So hes right she didnt do it under oath. It would have been a crime had she lied. The big question of course for this president is whether heel testify under oath himself. Well, right. I mean, it wouldnt necessarily have to be under oath. When you speak to federal investigators it is not always under oath. In fact usually in the context that Hillary Clinton was interviewed it is not under oath. There was some confusion i think in that room whether the president was saying that he was willing to testify in front of a grand jury. Because thats the scenario in which he would be testifying under oath. But i think what he was trying to remind people of was that that interview wasnt under oath. And once again remind people that he had a rival who was accused of some wrongdoing as well and sort of muddy the waters a little bit around this question. I dont think hes gotten too far down the technical rabbit hole probably with his lawyers about what the details are of whether he would be under oath or not under oath. But i mean i agree with everyone saying what he was trying to git out there is im willing to do this and eager for these questions. And in fact maybe he may be being advised this is a perjury trap, you shouldnt do this, also a school of thought in the white house i think that if you want to see this thing ended, this may be the only way to do that. And so i think that that has stuck in his head. And the president is part of him really would like to see this over with. And if this is the way to do it, he wants to signal hes up for it. Mark . Whether he meant to do this or not, it was incredibly smart strategic move. Because hes going out there saying i want to do it. And as we are discussing here, but my lawyers may not allow me to do it, im not allowed to do it. But yet everyone certainly his supporters are going to hear those words. Id love to do it. I want to do it. I have nothing to hide. There is no obstruction. So not very many things that donald trump does is strategic. And i would say this is probably not one of them but certainly is going to work well for him. And john what about the fact that hes putting this timing out there two or three weeks. We had said the reporting was in the coming weeks. So unclear. That cob two or three weeks or eight weeks. But hes putting a time frame on it. Two or three weeks. Does that mean we are that close to this whole thing being done . Im simply going under the laypersons assumption you would not interview the person at the top of the pyramid if you had not investigated every single brick below him . Thats a correct assumption. For sure mueller will have done all the underlying investigations he feels necessary to undertake this interview. Because hes not going to get many shots, if any, other shot at the president. So he will be prepared. That signals at least one phase of this investigation, maybe towards the end, and this is the last person hell need to talk to. And whats interesting, also, the fact that trump has so many existing outstanding conflicting statements, its going to be really interesting to watch how he handles that when he is questioned, whether it be under oath or not. Because hell be asked which statement is true. And as i say, hes got many conflicting statements on most of the issues that hell be confronted with. So this issue, as i mentioned he talked about bob muellerment and also talked about why he thinks that there is something deep deeply amiss perhaps corrupt at the fbi. I wanted to play that exchange with the reporters. Heres the president. I am very disturbed as is the general, as is everybody else that is intelligent. When you look at five months, right, this is a large scale version. That was 18 minutes. This is five months. They say its 50,000 texts h and its prime time. Thats disturbing. Should mccabe go, mr. President . Well, mccabe got more than 500,000 from essentially Hillary Clinton and is he investigating historic . Should he go . Do you remember, did anyone hear many of my speeches where i talked about mccabe . He was the starve star of my speech. The wife got 500,000 from terry. Terry is hillary. Do you regret having him as your acting fbi . You know what, i keep out of it. You find that hard to believe. I keep out of it. Thats the way it fell. Hes been there, one of those things. But he was the star . Of many o my speeches. Got that money for the wife. And in virginia you dont have to spend the money. So i never checked as to whether or not they spent the money on campaign. How much of the money did he spend on the campaign, do you know . How much was it . Wait. How much of the money was spent . You know. How much . Did you ask him i dont think so, no. No i dont thip i did. I dont know whats the big deal with that. Because i would ask you, who did you vote for . I dont think its a big deal. But i dont remember that. I saw that this morning. I dont remember asking him that question. Is it possible you did . I dont remember asking him the question. You dont remember . I think its also a very important question. But i dont remember asking him that. So you just heard that entire exchange. All right. Lets just start here, mark, with the facts. Many that are amiss in what hes saying there. For example, the texts that he says are missing, 50,000 of them. We have no idea. We know 50,000 texts they have recovered. We dont know how many is missing. He said it in a tweet and here and we dont know what the real number is. Thats just one of many issues here. Well, yeah. I mean, look, also its not, from what we are understanding now this could have been a computer glitch right now that is affecting many phones right now from fbi, officials from that time period. Of course everybody wants to see the texts hopefully they can go back and get them. So you are right about that. He also said when hes talking about the money that was given to his wife, this is before mccabe became or at least took over the fbi. And certainly was before he was overseeing the Hillary Clinton investigation. Whats interesting is that donald trump will just grab on to a little bit of news, little bit of information, and then hell blow it out and put the narrative around it, then he pushes it around, and his supporters eat it up. That is what fuels President Trump. And we just saw that right there. Julie, we certainly did. We have a letter today from the assistant attorney general steven boyd who is a trump appointee, worked before with then senator Jeff Sessions who came out and said this is a Technical Glitch affecting about 1 in 10 fbi phones and they are trying to run this down. So when you are trying to feed into the idea its a Conspiracy Theory that only affected two phones in quote unquote prime time as the president says. That does not fit with the facts. Well, right. I mean, what we do know is there are 50,000 texts total. So the idea that there are 50,000 texts over the period hes talking about is certainly not the case. But bigger issue is here you just heard him say in that tape i stay out of it. Hes not actually staying out of it and imposing this narrative about a conspiracy at the fbi and who knows what these missing texts say. And about political motivations by high ranking officials at the fbi. And we now know that he actually asked mccabe what his political affiliation is or who he voted for in 2016. Even though he just said that he doesnt remember doing that. White house officials have told us that in fact he did ask. And so what you have is the president who generally does try to stir clear of these things, these investigations for fear it even appearing to trying to sway the outcome, really wading into the details here and trying to weave this Conspiracy Theory that supposedly about people out to get him within his own fbi. All right. All of you stay with me as our coverage of these breaking comments continue as she says. Extremely unusual for this level of detail and we are getting it and its very important. Next, more of the trump audio. And president with new questions tonight as well about d. R. E. A. M. Ers. And breaking news about the stern warning about possible release of the nunes memo. Their words, it would be reckless. 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Talking about how he wants to testify to bob mueller. Talking about collision. Well be playing all of this. And i want to talk about mccabe, because Crucial Point. But first in new