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Jury, but from what i've been told, they really want to try to wrap this obstruction case quickly between may and july, and they may be able to do that even faster now that it looks like the president will not be interviewed. if he doesn't want to be interviewed, they don't need to prep the questions. they don't need to follow up on his answers, and they really have a lot of information on some key areas of the obstruction probe. so they could actually go ahead and send a report to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein that can sum up their findings without that interview. and so the presiden...

Interviewed, they don't need to prep the questions. they don't need to follow up on his answers, and they really have a lot of information on some key areas of the obstruction probe. so they could actually go ahead and send a report to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein that can sum up their findings without that interview. and so the president could be reading this tonight thinking, gosh, i'm now missing the chance to defend myself against an obstruction case. >> julia, our folks have gone ahead and put together a graphic showing some broad outlines of that obstruction case. if mueller re...

>> i would like to. >> tonight the possibility of that conversation actually taking place is looking unlikely. nbc news is reporting both mueller's prosecutors and trump's legal team, quote, are now proceeding with strategies that presume a presidential interview will not take place and that mueller, quote, may be able to close the obstruction probe more quickly. we have been talking on this broadcast for weeks about that potential interview. our nbc news colleagues also report negotiations hit a roadblock after that fbi raid of the office, residence, and hotel room of trump's longtime confida...

Version of -- >> 100%. >> are you going to talk to mueller? >> i'm looking forward to it actually. >> mr. president, would you still have to testify to special counsel robert mueller? >> i would. >> you would? >> i would like to. >> tonight the possibility of that conversation actually taking place is looking unlikely. nbc news is reporting both mueller's prosecutors and trump's legal team, quote, are now proceeding with strategies that presume a presidential interview will not take place and that mueller, quote, may be able to close the obstruction probe more quickly. we have been talking on ...

Is likely to touch on those areas. but i will point out it could be possible that in some of those areas, he's found exculpatory evidence. as a lot of your legal experts on this show will tell you, intent is the thing that drives an obstruction probe. so if he can show not just -- he would need to show not just that the president was involved in these things but that he intended to take these acts in order to obstruct this probe. and so without that intention, he could have found exculpatory evidence. we just know that these are the areas where he has findings, and we need to see, as this time...