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Were to respond to the firing for instance of a robert mueller by saying let's go back to the independent statute, could that independent counsel absorb the mueller probe and still complete it? . >> yeah. so robert mueller, if he's smart, before the midterms -- because he knew there was likely to be a change coming. if he were smart, he would start blult proofi bullet proofing his investigation. partly passing it off to other professional prosecutors, like my old office the southern district of new york. which you remember is handling the michael cohn. and the department of justice is hiring t...

From the president. jim? >> alex marquardt, thanks very much. let's discuss with our legal experts. and jennifer rogers, if i could begin with you. we've been talking, the president has been talking for months about how happy he would be to sit down across from the special counsel. that seems less likely now. and you have a sitting acting attorney general, the president appointed, who has criticized this investigation, who would have to approve of a subpoena for a presidential sitdown. in your view, is that issue effectively dead now with whitaker in that spot and these written questions now s...

On his own terms on his own schedule. he's relatively far along in this investigation. he's known that this change in leadership was coming. jeff sessions has long been headed for the exit and even whitaker himself was floated as the next person to oversee the investigation months ago. so mueller certainly was not surprised when any of this happened last week. and we've actually seen whitaker take some steps that make it seem for now at least that he is going to abide by the strong norms and procedures of the justice department. under a tremendous amount of pressure over the last week he newsp...

On his own terms on his own schedule. he's relatively far along in this investigation. he's known that this change in leadership was coming. jeff sessions has long been headed for the exit and even whitaker himself was floated as the next person to oversee the investigation months ago. so mueller certainly was not surprised when any of this happened last week. and we've actually seen whitaker take some steps that make it seem for now at least that he is going to abide by the strong norms and procedures of the justice department. under a tremendous amount of pressure over the last week he newsp...

Of them may not realize they're missing. reporting begins now. and our reporting begins with president trump. he said he just finished writing his answers to questions from robert mueller but has not yet turned them to investigators. the president insists he wrote the responses himself. >> my lawyers aren't working on that. i'm working on that. i write the answers. my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i answered them easily. >> shepard: the president did not give details about the questions on his answers, this does mark a critical step after the ...