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That's why we ask for their help. 50 questions robert mueller wants to ask president trump, the best window yet into the russian investigation. let's welcome in steve cortez, a former campaign trump adviser. also margaret hoover and keith boykin. good evening to all of you. let ice talk at the timeline here that ewe're learning. alling the stunning information from "the new york times." this talks about the negotiation between the trump lawyers and robert mueller. it's as if mueller sought for months who expressed a desire. they were going back and forth with the lawyers. so mueller told mr....

Here that ewe're learning. alling the stunning information from "the new york times." this talks about the negotiation between the trump lawyers and robert mueller. it's as if mueller sought for months who expressed a desire. they were going back and forth with the lawyers. so mueller told mr. dowd in early march, he needed to question the president directly to determine whether or not he had criminal intent to fire comey. but mr. boyd feld if i recall. investigate sors agreed days later so share during a meeting with mr. dowd the questions they wanted to ask mr. trump. so that's how these que...

Yes, it's true under supreme court precedent that he probably has to answer some questions, but he also has some negotiating leverage himself in the sense that he can't just be subpoenaed and spend days in the grand jury. he has a unique place in our constitutional system. so mueller, i think, has to give something to get something. and one of the things he has to give is general subject areas of what he's going to ask. >> michael zeldin, with all due respect to the mueller team and the investigators, jeffrey, we've been dealing with the fbi far very long time and how they do business. i am no...

Why did it take them so long to deal with the issue of flynn and why was flynn ultimately fired? now you have to remember on flynn, flynn is cooperating. and there was a question in there which we found particularly interesting. about the pardons, what did the president know about efforts to reach out to flynn about pardons? the interesting thing is that this was, this document was created in march. and it was only in april that we wrote a story about how pardons had been made from john doud on an offer to flynn's side. so mueller clearly knew something about the issue of pardons before that s...

Front of grand jury witnesses that could testify against the president. so mueller is building his team right now as trump is saying that he is going on the offense. we're seeing a cooling of negotiations and this could spell a time for the president where he may soon see an obstruction charge where he hasn't had the chance to weigh in and defend himself. back to you. >> thank you for that report. meanwhile, during yesterday's confirmation hearings for secretary of state mike pompeo explained why he would be inclined to stay on the job if the president tried to fire bob mueller. >> if the pr...