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These aren't gotcha questions and they're fairly straightforward although they are very difficult for the president to answer without getting himself into a lot of hot water. >> michael, i'm not going to ask you again about whatever motive may have led to this piece of work tonight. but can you talk about how unusual it is to cover a president where part of the mindset among those of us who are consumers of your work, we have to consider that this was a friendly leak by a friend of the president, someone looking out for his best interests to hammer home, mr. president, these are just the topic...

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 flight home from the nato meeting and what might have transpired on air force one could think of 10 to 12 tributary questions off of the topic sentence. >> that's absolutely right. you can imagine a prosecutor saying to the president, for instance, what was your reaction when jim comey testified before the senate and confirmed the existen...

Friendly leak by a friend of the president, someone looking out for his best interests 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. indications are that he probably knew abo...