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At one point, he says its gods orders, kate. All right. So much more to learn. Scott, thank you so much for being on the ground. Really appreciate it. Thank you all so much for joining me today. Inside politics with john king starts right now. Thank you, kate. And welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thank you for sharing your day with us. The president s new response to the Special Counsel is more political threat than legal strategy. Shut things down, team trump tells Robert Mueller, or become a Midterm Election issue. Plus, how alexandria ocasiocortez turns a stunning primary upset. An...

Answer, or do they say, a-ha, he's already reached a conclusion? so either keep up these negotiations, go nuclear with a subpoena, or decide he doesn't need to talk to the president. we don't know what his intent is in any of these things. we know he wants to talk to him, but would he settle for not? >> and there's definitely some irony in rudy giuliani sort of daring publicly, daring mueller to go past the september 1st deadline because, you know, the lawyers have been in negotiations for really a better part of this year now about this interview, how it will be conducted, what questions need...

Using the eun terry executive. not to get legalistic. that is something that people assert but it's not backed up by precedent. there isn't a long list of court cases that back u that theory. >> because no other president would go out there and say i can pardon myself. >> isn't what president trump and his lawyers are doing is daring mueller to do it. they are sick of waiting. finally, let's test these theories. let's see what happens. and you know, the confusion and the disappointment, though, i think coming from the republican side is he's not going to do that he will do it when he is good a...

Interferes with that ability for him to really conduct in powers in office. it's one reason why they believe, and the justice department has said, in legal opinions that the president cannot -- a sitting president cannot be indicted for a crime. so all of that's, i think, goes into their thinking, essentially they're daring mueller to go there. >> pam, wouldn't that drag out the fight? >> it certainly would, but what's interesting here, according to my colleague gloria borger, is the change in political strategy among those close to the president. originally they were thinking, we need to wrap...

Lengthy court fight. >> evan, we've been talking about this tonight. couldn't the president just plead the fifth? >> he can. he has the same rights as everybody else, but the president's legal team believes they don't even have to get there. they believe that first they're going to litigate whether mueller even has the right to subpoena the president, that it interferes with his article 2 powers. this is the part of the constitution that says what powers the president has, and it interferes with that ability for him to even conduct his powers in office. it's one reason why they believe, and th...