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Represented bill clinton when he was sued by paula jones. bob, as one of the few people any this world who have represented a president facing a high stakes interrogation ultimately, what do you make of these questions? >> well, it's very clear when you read the questions that they're trying to, mr. mueller is trying to get into the head of the president. he's trying to determine what was his intent and what was his knowledge. that's the thrust of all the questions. >> what do you see as the risks for the president as represented in these questions? >> well, i mean, the risk is that it shows t...

Investigation. there are questions about, for instance, the trump tower meeting and the trump family's relationship to russian oligarchs, kushner's efforts to set up a russian back channel and roger stone's outreach to wikileaks to the campaign, one question in particular suggests mueller may know a lot more than the rest of us. "what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" that's kind of collusiony. there's no public information to date on any such outreach by manafort or the campaign. asked today w...

Mueller, they want to make sure they handle it the right way. if this was perhaps part of the president's attempts to negotiate in public with mueller for the terms of his interview or whether it was a trial balloon to see whether republicans were going to be willing to still defend mueller. that would be an open question. you have republicans backing legislation to try to protect him. they were vocal about it. they had stepped back. this was a test for the president to say, hey, maybe i could do this. the answer seems to be no. >> john heilemann, the president's tweets, especially about mccab...

>> what do you mean by that? >> well, he'll answer a question and then they'll say but what about this? what about that? and my guess is there is not a person the president, who can be really prepared for an interrogation by very sophisticated prosecutors. >> i want to circle back to something you said. you read these questions as showing that mueller has a lot of evidence. why is that? >> well, the thrust of the questions assumes certain facts. and they say many times what did you think about the fact -- what did you know, what did you -- the questions assume a lot of factual information. >> ...

Special counsel. i refer you to the president's personal attorney. >> here's an important point. there is no reason to believe this list of 49 questions that was acquired by the "new york times" that that was a list the president is comprehensive. mueller's investigators shared them with the president's legal team in early march to discuss the terms of a presidential interview. president's lawyers reportedly wrote the questions down and then than document was provided to the times by a person outside trump's legal team. but that does not mean the special counsel's team revealed all in their ha...