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Get in, you know, sort of interrogatories, written interrogatories which are formal questions put in question form. i think that john is probably more right than less as always that these are probably more topic sentences, areas of inquiry than they are specific questions that they want specific answers to but rather we want to talk to you about the topic of communications around the june 9th meeting. we want to talk to you about the topic of roger stone's knowledge of wikileaks. we want to talk to you about the topic of your counterintelligence inquiries, et cetera. >> so that's an important ...

Listening to someone else than necessarily the questions that were designed by the prosecutors. >> you think the wording is knots exact as they might be from a prosecutor? >> yes, i do. >> what makes you think that, just how the sentences are phrased? >> exactly. it's sort of mechanical. what did -- you know, it sounds like it could have come out of a discussion with the prosecutors. >> michael zeldin, as a former prosecutor, do you agree with that? >> well, i think these are not specific questions as you might get in, you know, sort of interrogatories, written interrogatories which are formal...

Really afraid of how he would react in such an intense situation under questioning. >> to our viewers, we're sharing the screen intentionally with these questions on a rolling basis. again, there are 49 of them, but some of the instant analysis along with the writing in "the new york times" this evening leads us to believe the actual list of questions in a sit-down meeting would just explode into a million different tangents. let's bring in matt apuzzo for that. matt, i heard an experienced lawyer tonight say these are more like topic sentences. this lawyer said that any of us on just the flig...

Meeting would just explode into a million different tangents. let's bring in matt apuzzo for that. and, matt, i heard an experienced lawyer tonight say these are more like topic sentences. this lawyer said that any of us, on just the flight home from the nato meeting and what might have transpired on air force one, could think of ten to 12 trip t -- tributary questions off the topic sentence. >> that's right, you can imagine the prosecutor saying to the president, for instance, what was your reaction when jim comey testified before the senate and confirmed the existence of the russia investi...

For his best interest to hammer home, mr. president, these are just the topic sentences. these are just the categories they want to talk to you about. try this on for size and imagine taking on this burden if you thought for a second this was going to be a morning session or an afternoon session between you and mueller. >> no, i think the president probably understood the severity of this after his lawyers came back and told him about it. i have no indication that they kept this from him, and indications are he probably knew about what was going on here. but i think you hit on a larger questio...