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of an official event to tout a legislative accomplishment. sitting in the front row behind me was lieutenant governor john fetterman. he is of course going to be participating in another event separately with the president later in philadelphia. now, there have been a lot of questions about the president and how he has been spending his time leading up to the midterms and the fact that as you pointed out, victor, he hasn't been doing a lot of sort of rallies and separate events with some of the most vulnerable democrats, but we are seeing how the white house has been making sort of t...

President itself wants to do the interview and its only his lawyers holding him back. So what is really going on here . Does the president want to talk or not . Politico suggests the answer is yes. Despite the risks. Thats because of, quote, trumps belief in his selfcreated myth, that he can convince anyone of anything if hes simply given the opportunity to get them in a room alone. Apparently that includes Special Counsel bob mueller himself. I want to bring in nbcs Peter Alexander whos live in berkeley heights, new jersey. Peter, if the president really wants to do it, he could just say yes....

Lingering. >> we'll get into the legal exposure for the president later. kristen, let me come to you about this new strategy from the trump team when it comes to the missing documents investigation. maybe a second search of mar-a-lago. >> that's right, we're told by a number of sources that trump's legal team is trying to turn down the heat with the department of justice, and weighing their options on how to do that. they're looking at how to, of course, best protect donald trump from any legal jeopardy but also to alleviate some pressure on the former president who has a growing number of leg...

>> it's the typical projection that you hear from the president and the people around him all the time. you know, and it's very vague. you'll find out the terrible things they did. i mean, if they had terrible things to say or allegations against the special counsel, they would just say them right now. this is all sort of, again, for public consumption and trying to bias the public to say -- to believe that the probe is somehow out to get the president and, again, as peter said, the special counsel's office doesn't comment on this stuff publicly so you have rudy and jay sekulow basically filli...

What to expect. back after this brief break. >> yeah. first day back since thursday, her 18th day on the stand. last week, as you know, she was facing questions from the jury and this week she could face some more. jurors scribbling down more questions. and whether or not any of them should be asked today. the big question lingering is why should we believe you now? she changed her story so many times. they might want to know about why they should believe her now. they asked initially -- she said initially that she was ashamed, that she had killed him. she also wanted to protect travis alexand...