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The issue of obstruction of justice. the president's legal team who has been leaning against having the president conduct an interview with mueller does not want the scope of any potential questions go beyond the scope of possible collusion which president trump has denied. in a perfect world, there would be a few written questions about the obstruction issue and oral questions as well about russia and collusion. in the meantime, "the wall street journal" is reporting this afternoon that the president's former attorney: is. cohen's attorney has been pretty vocal and his defense. he would not c...

Having not just the president but official at the cabinet level submitting to a sitdown interview. so the special counsel would have to demonstrate quite convincingly why such an interview is necessary given the fact that a large volume of documents pretty much he is has asked for the white house. two strikes against such an interview one obstruction issue off the table. flow may be willing to do this and tell you by august 12th. again, i think they are trying to brings this whole process to a close. this has been going on long enough. i'm frankly troubled by the fact according to media report...

Silence we have come to expect from it. how essential is this interview, do you think? >> well, i think mueller certainly has to make the request and he has done so, make the request clearly. presumably, this interview is the last step before mueller would issue a report to congress. assuming for the moment that mueller believes that if he finds a crime, the proper judge for that activity is congress through our process of impeachment. he would send a report initially to the justice department. that could then be sent to congress. we do need to remember that there are two separate strands of m...

He's trying to just establish whether there's a corrupt intent on the obstruction issue and get -- and hear what the president's point of view is on some of the other issues he's exploring. you know, i think he could do it without it. i think there is a certain fairness the public would perceive if trump did agree to testify. he's not going to be prosecuted for perjury because he's a sitting president. so he's got a lot of latitude. >> john dean, professor dershowitz, thank you. >> thank you. well, "the washington post" has been updating its list of presidential lies. in june and july, the n...

Said they don't want any questioning on obstruction, that mueller's team would have to concede to that. is there any chance that's going to actually happen, that they would take that off the table in terms of questions? >> i can't imagine they would take that off the table. i can't imagine they would ask him just one or two questions. but it's not about quantity. it's about quality. if they ask him why he fired mueller, that is dynamite. that simply opens up the possibility that he will say something that others will contradict. and so i think they're going to be very worried about that kind o...