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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And Senior Reporter for the Washington Post,er rinne blake and anna palmer. Carol, let me go to you. You are writing now about how the president sees this interview with Robert Mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. Heres the thing, Rudy Giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. You know whos not . Roberts mueller. Thats absolutely true, hallie. Robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. But one thing has not changed and thats the essence of donald tru trump, whi...

Violence. rudy giuliani was having lunch with him. what did he know, when did he know it? was he involved in bribery? campaign violations? what else was he doing that on interfeerning with policy he has no right to stick his nose into. >> done, i'm going to go to you on this. you look at rudy giuliani. he's not a registered lobbyist. it seems so apparent to me that this influence industry has involved him that seems like lobbying to me. what does it tell you about where we are? >> let's be clear, rudy giuliani has engaged in lobbying. we don't know if it is covered

She found this boyfriend a conservative political consultant. why is she asking about sanctions? it's been relevant with flynn talking to the ambassador and the other russian plant in the meeting with the the president's son and son-in-law and others in trump tower. that's the part that makes it curious. >> i wouldn't rule out also the business that the kremlin delegation brought to trump tower june of 2016. and talk about policy. this was an effort from directions. some involving the campaign. some involved the republican influence industry. but as far as we know, unprecedented and not tear t...

D.c. to try to influence u.s. politicians. >> i want to bring in anna palmer on this who i know has some thoughts. >> yeah, i think that what he's done is showing what happens in the influence industry. what i would bet if this actually will increase the cost and price that lobbiests able to charge -- >> why? xbl i'm going to work for this rogue government, i'll do it but the cost benefit analysis is i'm going to potentially be in the news. you have lawyers looking into this now, much more. the retainers will go higher and people will not stop -- countries are not going to stop saying we don't...

Those details still are being flushed out to some extent, and so for mueller, a couple of weeks of additional investigative time before he speaks to the president could pay dividends. at the end, though, this is not rudy giuliani's decision to make. whether or not there will be an interview will largely be determined by the prosecution and not by i'll say the defense for lack of a better term here. >> meantime, back to michael cohen. the "wall street journal," ken, doing more reporting on his approach to various companies and lobbying firms and say, "mr. cohen's pitch was blunt. he would tell ...