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Learned that robert mueller is going to follow the department of justice guidelines which suggests that a sitting president cannot be indicted. so mueller's remedy for any criminal violation by the president is to refer it to congress for impeachment. >> you think that's credible what we've heard about that that the mueller team doesn't believe they can indict a president while in office? >> we heard it from rudy guiliani. you can guess how credible it is. mueller is a conservative prosecutor. this is always been the department's guidelines. rod rosenstein hasn't said a lot about this investig...

Person for the president. we've been saying for a long time. on your air, that he knows everything, has seen everything. but now separately from that, with all this money revelations that we've seen, on your air, now it's just so much more complicated. and so there's two facts that jumped out at me. one is, from the coverage, you look at the fact that at&t payments to mueller. excuse me, payments to michael cohen. we now know that bob mueller has known about those for at least five months. the at&t statement said they were asked about them in november. so mueller has been focusing on the money...

Interest to mueller and his team? >> as novartis said, mueller approached them in november of last year, six months ago. so they have been cued into michael cohen's role through essential consultants, and perhaps otherwise for quite some time. there were -- there was allegations in the steele dossier that michael cohen went to prague and met with european hackers. michael cohen has been trump's fixer for a long time. so mueller is digging deep and many months ahead of where we are right now, as ault of this is coming to the fore. but he's digging deep into the connections between michael cohen...

Would concede there are certain instances in which the president could fire somebody for an unlawful reason. for example, if he fired somebody because they -- because he received a bribe, or if he fired somebody because of their religion or their race or something like that, obviously there would be -- those firings would be unlawful. and similarly, if you fire somebody because you want to stop the investigation of yourself and your friends, that's also unlawful. so mueller's properly inquiring as to that, and i think this effort, you know, you played the dueling clips earlier, the effort now ...

Subpoena the president. and if he does that, how would the president. a former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u.s. department of homeland security. danny cevallos is an msnbc legal analyst. marie ashavesti is a former lecturer at berkeley. paul, you've been through this from the special counsel side before. so mueller right now would like an interview with the president. we heard that maybe rudy giuliani's saying it is still not entirely impossible that would happen. the prospect apparently of a subpoena has been floated. if the president doesn't sit down. this move today to put ...