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>> it's hard to tell. i think the president likes to play both sides of the fence here. i interviewed ken starr a couple days after the election, and he talked about how delicate and how careful you have to be when ve investigating a president. robert mueller is on the stage where he is essentially talking to the president and trying to get information from the president and trying to do that in a way that is the least politically charged it can be. >> in written form? >> correct. i think the president and his lawyers are not to let the president sit down with robert mueller and talk one-on-on...

Worse for himself. >> the reason he's answering in written form is the possibility of trump not lying in an oral interview is the chances of tweety bird not tweeting. >> very important point. more of what the president said about whitaker and the mueller investigation. >> whitaker decides to limit or curtail the mueller investigation. are you okay with that? >> it's going to be up to him. i think he's very well aware politically. he's a very smart person. i really believe he's going to do what's right. >> but you won't overrule him? >> i would not get involved. >> he decides astutely political...

Finding out the truth? >> you have a bunch of amazing, brilliant legal minds at msnbc that can answer that question with a lot more scholarship than i can, but i have an associate degrees in humanities, but i can tell you right now this guy knows exactly what he's doing, and he's caught. he shoots himself in the foot all the time just by saying things, tweeting things. not only did he tell lester holt, he told the russians he would have more room to work now that he got rid of comey. whitaker has no business in there. he fired sessions. there's all kinds of evidence of obstruction, of collusio...

Hiatus, if you will. the president has not tweeted at all about the special counsel for a month or so so this morning when he went on a tear very specifically it seemed like a bit of deja vu, going back into democrats were responsible for the collusion. he was trying to misdirect and discredit the mueller investigation but one thing is clear as you said just a few moments ago, the president has this clearly on his mind and it's affecting his mood. he has met with his private lawyers here at the white house, we're told, for the last three days, going over these written questions, going over exa...

Written form. >> which you would expect to be the last significant thing that could occur before you wrap up. >> neil: as a prosecutor, does the written form mean anything to you? >> it's still under oath. in orderly as a criminal defense order, i would counsel a client nothing under oath if you avoid it. i suspect in the background is if you don't submit at least written answers under oath, then you'll face a subpoena and there's probably been some negotiations behind the scenes about working that out. otherwise, the president could save his answers and use them to respond to whatever report ...