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Has the white house responded to this idea of a may 17th decision? >> reporter: not yet, john. they have not responded yet. i will tell you that earlier today, sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, she was sort of raegd from different talking points today. i think gone are the days where they're really going to speculate a whole lot on these legal troubles facing the president. she was essentially just referring us over and over again to the president's legal team, but i did talk to a source close to these discussions recently, who said that the president's legal team is making a fin...

Flattered by that comparison, by the way. boris, has the white house responded yet to the idea of the possible may 17th decision to sit down with robert mueller, his investigators? >> reporter: not yet, john, but we suspect that if they do respond, they will repeat something that sarah sanders said from the podium today and refer us back to the source of those comments. rudy giuliani notably, i did want to point out something that giuliani told the "the wall street journal," he said, "every day we swing a little different." that, of course, on the question of whether the president should sit d...

His security clearance yet, hasn't even started yet. and you have rudy giuliani setting deadlines and saying, okay, we want this -- we want to make this decision by may 17th. so, what i've been told, what my colleagues at the white house have been told, is that, you know, this really is a goal and not so much a deadline. >> it's aspirational. >> let's call it aspirational. and so the legal team is kind of like herding cats right now, and the person in charge is the president of the united states whom as we all know loves chaos. so that's. wh what he's got. >> it's hard to believe, the rudy giu...

You've got the raskins who are just starting out, you've got emmet flood who hasn't gotten his security clearance yet, hasn't even started yet. and you have rudy giuliani setting deadlines and saying, okay, we want this -- we want to make this decision by may 17th. so, what i've been told, what my colleagues at the white house have been told, is that, you know, this really is a goal and not so much a deadline. >> it's aspirational. >> let's call it aspirational. and so the legal team is kind of like herding cats right now, and the person in charge is the president of the united states whom as ...

We asked the white house for comment on this. they have yet to back to us. >> scaramucci tweeted he's flattered by that comparison, by the way. boris, has the white house responded yet to the idea of the possible may 17th decision to sit down with robert mueller, his investigators? >> reporter: not yet, john, but we suspect that if they do respond, they will repeat something that sarah sanders said from the podium today and refer us back to the source of those comments. rudy giuliani notably, i did want to point out something that giuliani told the "the wall street journal," he said, "every da...