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Directing his legal team, you're telling me you would advise him not to sit for an interview with robert mueller? >> that's correct. >> and then what would happen? i mean, in the case of bill clinton if i'm not mistaken, his testimony in that deposition in the paula jones was ultimately competented. your client bill clinton declined to voluntarily sit and then he was subpoenaed. is that right? >>, that's not right. he was subpoenaed in another proceeding. president of the united states though has a hard time to refuse, but i think in this case, president trump should because many of the underl...

On that piece in the west who broke that story i was just reading. carol, what did you learn about what sounds like quite an intense meeting between the president's lawyers and mueller? >> yes, this was an interesting meeting that seems to keep producing interesting news. it was march 5th. the president's then lead lawyer and colawyer sat down with mueller in his office to basically talk about whether or not they were going to do the interview. a lot of things happened. some of which we've already reported. this is the meeting where mueller tells trump's lawyers that trump is not a criminal ta...

Think they play very well as overreaching. >> and it seems, david, we are hurtaling now, we're hurtling toward some confrontation as you said. there's going to be a fight. if the president says no, mueller then sends a subpoena. it goes to a court. this is where things get very serious. >> we are. it's important to remember, this is an inherently political process. there's some debate about this. the legal expert who's i find persuasive don't think the sitting president of the united states can be charged with a crime. there's some debate. i would be stunned if mueller decided to do that in th...

Show than a top flight litigator or criminal defense attorney. he was the one that wrote down this list of questions, top picks that we're now seeing. is that correct? >> yes, i think there's been a lot of confusion about these questions. >> agreed. >> they were not provided by mueller's office to trump's lawyers. what happened was, the march 5th meeting sets in motion a lot of anxiety, one trump's lawyers know that maybe mueller is game to subpoena the president. which would be a big deal. akin to the time that ken starr subpoenaed bill clinton. they also asked for more information about the ...

Richard nixon, is subject to it. that means having to answer to a subpoena. at the end of the day, mueller has strategic considerations but he has the legal draw on trump as it were. he may have to take it to the supreme court. trump may try certain arguments. but mueller is right. it also makes the point, chris, people are sort of taking these questions as the current state of play. this was a month ago. what they really is are is the end of the road. they're the point when the negotiations went off course and trump and company said we are not going to try to give terms of an interview anymor...