A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Latest offer for an interview in the Russia Investigation. And tonight the Washington Post is reporting muellers most recent offer would cut the number of questions to the president in the interview about Obstruction Of Justice by nearly half. Cutting it by nearly half is not good enough for the president. Obstruction in any form is Something Team trump has been very clear is a nonstarter. You said what the president would be willing to sit down sort of figure out in the area of collusion, not obstruction. Meaning he would answer questions about collusion, not obstruction or vice versa . No, collusion, not obstruction. So, very clear, right . Not obstruction. Collusion okay, not obstruction. The fact that obstruction is still part of the interview appears to be setting the president off. He tweeted, this is a terrible situation and attorney Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it stnz to stain our coun
must jeff zeleny is out front live at the white house. jeff, i don t know we ve had semantics play such an important role in a white house as we are now. what more can you tell us about the president s thinking as these mueller investigations go on and obstruction, you know, obviously is still on the table from mueller s side? erin, it s clear semantics led by the president, led by his messages on social media in the morning on twitter, in the morning 3-d morning lead to a strategy. the strategy comes after the tweets. you saw an hour and a half or so after the president urged or called on his attorney general to stop the russia investigation. suddenly rudy giuliani, jay sekulow, other lawyers were saying, no, no, this is an opinion. i was wanting to know if the white house was going do adopt the same line. usually they refer questions to them. this time the reverse, we heard from the president s lawyers then echoed by the white house secretary at the podium. it is interesting to k