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>> neil: are they real, jay? >> if a conflict was there, we would raise it in the appropriate venue, that would include with the special counsel himself or the deputy attorney general. that's the normal process -- >> neil: have you done that? >> we have not raised those issues at this point. >> neil: so they're not to the point to be a significant issue for you now? >> we're not at the point where we raised conflict issues yet. >> neil: okay. where do you see this going? of course with the iran contra thing, the clinton investigations for 3 1/2 years, are you ready for that? >> i don't think w...

Lawyer's client is about to be subpoenaed so if president trump would be subpoenaed, which would be unusual and unlikely, they would tell his lawyers. short of that, they have no obligation to tell him anything. >> neil: in almost all of the press accounts i've read, they say the empaneling of a grand jury is an indication that the investigation is ramping up. i don't know if those are fiery words, but how do you describe what this means, this action taken by mueller means? >> bear in mind, the grand jury operates in secret. i don't know more about it than you do other than my experience with ...

Look, i'm not in the position to make that analysis. that is not my job right now. so i want to be clear on that. i don't see that issue coming up. i don't see it. >> neil: is it fair to say your conversations with the president that he's frustrated with muler? >> i'm not going to -- look, neil, i'm not going to discuss -- we're friends. i can't discuss conversations with the president. they're privileged. >> neil: and there's the arizona congressman who was on the show saying mueller should resign. not only his friendship with comey, but his staff that consists of a lot of hillary clinton mad...

>> neil: all right. in just a bit, we'll talk to trump's lawyer, jay succalo in just a bit. but right now, in this stage, with all the other investigations going on, this timing is about par for the course as well for a grand jury. what do you make of it? >> i think that if you want to believe that donald trump had nothing to do with it, you're going to believe this is par for the course, typical and that mueller is doing everything he needs to do to protect himself and so that nobody can question that he went through the investigation. now, if you're on the other side of things, you're going ...

Firing bob mueller now. is that true? >> the president is not thinking about firing bob mueller. so this is -- speculation out there is incorrect. >> neil: would you advise him regardless of a grand jury that that would be a bad idea? >> look, my job is to -- my job is to deal with what? i have to deal with the facts as we have them and the case as we have it. the decisions the president were to make on bob mueller is a decision that i'm not involved in and would not be involved in and frankly the president has not raised with me, with our legal team, the dismissal of bob mueller. so that's sp...