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To answer questions, you know -- orally. personally, i think none of this is going to hhappen. i think they are going kicking the can down the road, trying to get past the mid terms. and then if mueller subpoenas, he subpoenas. >> there is a precedent in terms of written answers during the iran contra investigation. i remember covering it. president reagan did cooperate, but only in written form with the independent counsel. >> right. i was on the staff of that independent counsel, and, you know, we got those answers, and they were somewhat useful. but, you know, the whole point of interviewin...

Laughable. >> elliott, go ahead. >> the other point is it's not a perjury trap if you're telling the truth. and if you aren't trying to conceal or change facts or mislead the people. and i think it's unfortunate they're using perjury, trap and trying to convince the public that somehow robert mueller is the one at fault here and rob mueller isn't the one under investigation. we should be careful when hearing perjury, trap or am i going to be trapped into incriminating myself when you might have done something wrong. >> a lot of people, molly, believe the president is never going to sit down wi...

Moo mueller and his team face to face? >> i think he's using the media as a focus group. knowing the court of public opinion will ultimately influence the impeachment process, if there is one. i think it's in his best interest to speak with his attorneys president, which would not happen if he were subpoenaed. you want that harness and potential muz. around him and a script in front of him to answer questions that would not be allowed to be there if he had a grand jury. it's in his interest whether he'll follow suit is very different. >> one of the points that were made, maybe he'll answer que...

That might be acceptable would be an in person interview to talk about russia the election, and possible collusion in any questions about possible obstruction or any questions that would go to the issue of obstruction of justice would be in written form, again, here is depree. >> the president would like to do things in writing that gives them time to think about their answers to craft the right answer as opposed to a face-to-face interaction where as we have seen a lot witnesses do not get it right under the pressure of the moment. >> rudy rudy giuliani telling fox news that he wants to make ...

That this ran afoul here of federal law. taking those three things into consideration, what's the thing the president should be most worried about? >> well, i think he should be worried about all three. let's start with the nature of the tweet in the first instance. in a courtroom, tweets equal evidence. there is a federal rule of evidence called statement of a party opponent. what does that tell us? it tells us that anything a defendant says whether it is in oral form, written form, tweeted form, if he said it, it can be introduced as evidence against him. now, i know there are some who say, ...