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Special counsel robert mueller's questions. but could this compromise mark be the beginning of the end of the 17-month investigation? avery freeman, civil rights attorney and law professor is joining us from cleveland. and criminal defense attorney richard herman joins us from las vegas. good to see you as well. >> hi, fred. >> hello. avery, you first, how would this work? questions are delivered in some way to the white house and then the attorneys for the president or the white house counsel then answers them? explain. how does it go? >> well, something like that. originally, the idea was to...

>> it is not a perjury trap. it is not a perjury trap if you're telling the truth. >> there is no perjury trap. >> if it is a lie, it is a perjury trap. >> richard, we're at this phase of a written question, written question, written responses, does this mean we are at the end of this investigation? >> i thought it would go on much longer, fred, but i do think that mueller is closing in now. i think he has obstruction locked up. and i think right now, he is working on the collusion conspiracy aspect between the trump, trump administration, trump campaign, and russia, and i think that is the fi...

Going to institute impeachment proceedings against him. this story is not over. u.s. supreme court -- >> i don't know about that. >> -- judges can be impeached. they will bring impeachment charges. then to the senate. if he doesn't win the senate, he will not be. but this story isn't over. what it says for the future is, you know, we have to get our stuff together because it's just disarray and it doesn't do any party any service and it doesn't do the american people any service, fred, it's horrible. >> we'll leave it there for now. it's been an intense week. it ain't over. >> you bet. >> rich...

And richard hermann. glad you could all be with us. avery, you first. how do you classify this? is this considered a small victory? hearing the stories, or is this still a very tenuous situation as we hear the ford camp still trying to work out details? >> yeah. i'm troubled with it, fredricka. there should be an fbi investigation prior to the testimony. people are not talking about the reality that in the prior hearing with anita hill and clarence thomas, the fbi did an investigation. only took three days. that's it. three days. that's it. and secondly, there's been no discussion about standa...

The opportunity to testify treating her with respect saying she should be heard and continuing to praise the integrity of brett kavanaugh, the supreme court nominee but over the course of the week president trump has gotten closer and closer to going on offense against christine blazey ford. that started thursday evening in las vegas during that interview with fox news where president trump first started questioning why ford didn't go to the authorities 36 years ago when this alleged assault took place. on twitter friday morning he continued to go after ford, continued to question her motives ...