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Brought related to that meeting. so this yeah but hillary did it too is not going to get mueller off the track. how about, peter, just one more to you. one of the key witnesses at the center of that meeting and so many others was this woman, hope hicks, who was just getting on board air force one over the weekend which has a lot of people scratching their heads. you know, she doesn t work there anywhere. is the president at risk of witness tampering with her here? you know, i m sure her lawyer would have preferred her not to have that contact. but my guess is that hope hicks has been interviewed. i know she s been interviewed on the hill. and i strongly suspect and by mutualer. that mueller has already interviewed her. yes. so he may feel ultimately that her testimony is locked in. okay. it s going to be very hard at this point for her to change her ....
State. notes to a columbia law professor because he wasn t man enough to give the notes to give them directly to the media when he wanted them out to the media. the gop has got their villain in the russia investigation. it is the fired fbi director jim comey. joining our conversation tonight charlie savage. germane to this conversation, his piece tonight, trump calls comey a leaker. what does that mean. we are going to get to that in one seconds. and peter decidenberg is with us as well, former federal prosecutor and at the justice department, and deposit special counsel book in the scooter libby case during the bush 43 administration. gentlemen welcome to you both. charlie you saw the talking points. there s a lot more where they came from. interestingly, he is being called a leaker and his manhood is getting called out for the way he did it, through someone at columbia, putting a step between him and the material. once and for all, doe this ....
And you were so forceful in agreeing 100% to come talk to us, perhaps we can interview you the first of several times, you don t mind if we call you back with more questions? i think you are putting your finger on the tricky issue that bob mueller the special counsel leading this russia plus obstruction probably investigation is going to have to weigh. you don t get a lot of shots at the president when you are in that position. you are lucky to get one and to get him under oath if the president follows through on what he said. but trump may have just said some words off the cuff that he didn t really mean once his lawyers get to him and explain to him that that might not be such a good idea. i would imagine that mueller thinks he is only going to get one shot at that. and he probably wants the know everything he can learn from everybody else before he goes into the oval office and sits down with the president to bounce what he thinks he knows off of the president s recollections. a ....
peter, i want to read you a quote from the new york times. it s an opinion on the comey testimony. it says, comey set up so many perjury traps for them said a veteran democratic operatedive who serve as mrs. clinton s communications director during the 2016 campaign. how so? can you explain that? well, if donald trump were to try and refute the comey statement by going under oath i think that, at least from my perspective, it would a lot of chance of catching him in a committing perjury. and charlie, if you are robert mueller, if you are watching that news conference in the rose garden today, is there any mechanism where you can do you rush this thing? do you hurry up and get that invitation over to the white house saying i d like to take you up on your offer? ....
Into the oval office and sits down with the president to bounce what he thinks he knows off of the president s recollections. and peter, do you think if the president had run that by his defense lawyer, any lawyer would have advised him in a public forum to go out and freely offer his sworn testimony under oath to the special counsel looking into his affairs and administration? no, i m sure his attorney was cringing to hear him say that. i have to agree with charlie on this, though. i don t imagine that bob mueller is going to take up the president on his offer at this time. i think he will in due course. but like charlie was saying, he is going to have one shot at this and he is not going to be asking him exclusively about those conversations with jim comey. that s one aspect this case. he is going to want to ask him about everything. he wants to do that at the ends of his investigation, not at the outset, which is wre we arat right now. ....