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Bloomberg news and rick tyler. shannon, put on your constitutional scholar hat and start with what you make of the president's interpretation of article ii. >> well, it does not allow him to do whatever he wants, but in the particular situation there was a legal case to say that he could have fired mueller if he wanted to. mueller is part of the executive branch and the president is the head of the executive branch. so under the special counsel regulations he was, you know, essentially a doj employee and you can argue about whether that's the right way to structure it. but the president could ...

No collusion, no obstruction is the line and he's never going to waver from it. you could have whipped out the mueller report and made him read it in the car and he would stair at the words on the page and read them and lie and make up new words. >> the most interesting part of the interview for me was when mick mulvaney coughed, and trump said do you want to shoot this over again. and he just started over again, all politicians stick to talking points. but it is a script, it is a show, and he will perform his part in the show no matter what character-revealing evidence is presented to him. yo...

>> live in south carolina, thank you. eric? eric: and there's a lot more fallout from an abc news interview that president trump gave. he is defending actions he took during the russia investigation, saying he had the power to fire former special counsel robert mueller if he wanted to. and when asked by george stephanopoulos about why he did not end up firing mueller, trump cited lessons learned from a past president. >> number one, i didn't. he wasn't fired. okay? number one, very importantly. but more importantly, article ii allows me to do whatever i want. article ii would have allowed me t...

Here. >> great to be here, kate. >> with the president making this protective assertion of executive privilege overall of the documents that your committee has requested, does this vote that's going to happen then this afternoon to hold them in contempt, is it going to get you further rather than closer to getting your hands on any of these documents now? >> i think it gets us closer. i mean, what we're doing is pressing forward. and now we're going to pursue the opportunity to team up with the courts in order to do that. i mean, you can look at this as article i, congress teaming up with arti...

And the executive branch generally does comply. and this is not been the case. >> now they're saying, we're going to show you that you have to comply because they're saying they're not. okay. jim, look, there's this -- the democrats stuck in a -- struck a deal yesterday with the doj to review some of the mueller documents. but now we're learning that the white house may assert executive privilege on some of that evidence. so give us the inside view. was this coordinated? was this a setup? how do you see this? >> yeah, i think it's tough to figure out. i'm guessing that there's may be some tens...