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Mil milgram. professor dershowitz, this reporting that mueller's team is willing to reduce the number of questions that ask about potential obstruction, do you this that's going to be enough to get the president to sit down? >> well, it's a very smart move by mueller because it's not about quantity, it's about quality and substance. if they can just get the president to testify about what his motive was in firing comey or about why he spoke to comey about being -- going soft on flynn, those are potential perjury traps. so, mueller is very smart to reduce the number, if the result is that he ca...

You don't have to answer questions about your intent. we have a very good privilege argument that will probably prevail in front of a court. if you had the right and the power to fire comey, then you cannot be questioned about why you did it any more than senator or a congressman or a judge can be questioned about why they rendered a decision or a vote. so i think in the end, it's going to be very unlikely that the lawyers will lose this battle and the president will actually sit down and expose himself to a possible perjury trap. >> professor, you use the term perjury trap. it's only a perjur...

Court. but you're supposed to make a case of why it is so necessary to withhold the information. the committee has a clear jurisdictional basis to ask for this testimony. while i don't believe that there is prima facia evidence of obstruction of justice yet. there are investigating the possibility of that crime. so i think a court finds his public statements to be worrisome. in fairness to the white house there is obviously more to the conversation nas occurred between a president and a person that was then the fbi director. that does happen to fall in an area of executive privilege. but i've ...

Prima facie evidence of obstruction of justice yet, they are investigating the possibility of that crime. so i think a court would find his public statements to be worrisome. now, in fairness to the white house, there's obviously more to these conversations that occur between a president and a person that was then the fbi director. that does happen to fall in an area of executive privilege. but i've never seen a privilege argument succeed on this type of record. and i have to also say, presidents are usually very reluctant to have court challenges over privilege because they try not to lose gr...

Should be a privilege and jobs are important. what about the working poor who get up and go to work and still don't have health care? that's an important issue. >> david: republicans need to recruit her to to run for mayo. >> eric: we don't want to lose her. we want to keep her. we need more like current government. the writer versus the privilege argument. if it is in the constitution, it's our right. nowhere in the constitution does that say you have a privilege of getting health care. john roberts may disagree peer he sought a different way and that's why we have obamacare but good for her....