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Business, dan. i want to ask you about this because rudy giuliani first told our team that it would happen by monday or tuesday. today is wednesday. now it is most likely, according to information that i just got from giuliani as well as peter alexander. is this a stalling tactic or is this legit? >> it will, i don't think it's a stalling tactic to wait from monday to wednesday. i think that realistically this interview is never going to happen. so to some extent is it a stalling tactic to play a longer game and to keep these negotiations alive so that rudy giuliani and -- can build up a narra...

First. i don't think there has been any evidence that any collusion has occurred as distinct from some things that may politically painful but legally significant. >> melissa: we have heard from the president's side before they want to bring this to an end they want to make a decision whether they will sit down and not sit down and not panned out before when we have heard this talk. is there a chance this is sort of a not even a stalling tactic that they feel like the issue is working for them and they continue to talk about it both the president and his lawyer tweeting and talking and his law...

They don't want to have him answer in person with the special counsel investigators, so we'll see. we don't know whether or not this is the proposal that will win the day. obviously this is something that again has been going on for about eight months. >> is this simply part of a new stalling tactic? how likely is it that the president will sit down with mueller? >> so far the special counsel has not been willing to budge on the idea that they want a sit down interview with the president, that for this investigation to be over, for it to be wrapped up, especially the obstruction of justice que...

Pr move, partly a stalling tactic and a way to mine the special counsel for information, to find out just what robert mueller knows. the special counsel, which is customary, is saying nothing about this, alex. >> all right, thank you, jeff bennett at the white house. we are just a day away from the president's supreme court picks. more details on why the frontrunner may not be a slam-did you think. > -- slam-dunk. >> also is the president asking for advice on the meeting with putin? we'll be back. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story. and that's why we'll always drive a subaru.

United states would agree to an interview with the special counsel and his team? what do we know now from your latest conversations with rudy giuliani who now heads up the president's legal team? >> what rudy is saying is that mueller needs to come forward with evidence that the president committed a crime and that there is a reason that a counterintelligence investigation, an investigation of how russia meddled in the election, can now be one about obstruction. and if mueller can prove it to the president's lawyers, then they can move forward with an interview. the question really here is why...