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President wishes to do so and probably even if the president doesn't wish to do so, it will be necessary for him to speak directly to the special counsel. >> and not do it in written form, are questions and answers in writing, but actually appear before the special counsel, right? >> yes. i would never accept as a special counsel a written response from the president. you get the lawyers' answers that way, and you don't get the opportunity to ask questions in realtime. it's much less conducive of producing the truth. it's much easier to hide the facts if you get to put them in very lawyerly-cr...

Preparing for the possibility that mueller's team will ask to interview the president as part of the russia probe, conversations with mueller's team are in the early stage but the president's legal team is considering options including enforcement, written response to questions or an affidavit. the president suggested he is willing to speak with mueller if asked. >> 27 open leak investigations at the department of justice right now and that is triple the number from the last three years combined. john sullivan broke this latest development on an agent's text messages, he said these along with ...

Now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." good evening. >> good evening. a big news night for christopher steele and the special prosecutor spoken to christopher tonight to add to that, richard burr said yesterday hate brick wall in terms of senate investigators to talk to him, that we were able to report tonight that at least from the steel side of the equation, he's willing to talk and so we may yet see him speaking with those investigators, as well. >> i read that you provoked a response from chairman burr and vice chairman senator warner tonight and i've read their written...

Doesn't give interviews or speak publicly. >> you raise questions that jared kushner seemed to try to answer in the 11-page document. he met with the banker because they asked his assistant to. why did you meet? it came at a speech that was set up. he does try to answer each one of those questions. you are not satisfied with the answers he gives in the 11-page statement? >> well, if anyone has been part of a deposition before, you know you are not going to answer a deposition with a written response. right? first, you are not under oath. second of all, you are not under the scrutiny of follow ...

His written response? >> look, i think there are republicans that i talked to who are willing to give him credit for giving a detailed explanation and are willing to -- >> really? they think -- it's been -- really? it's been six months -- 11 page memo? these have been questions that out there for six months. >> i think that those who are willing to defend him are willing to say, look, this was a campaign where essentially collusion was not possible because everything was so crazy. they're willing to buy into the defense. mine, what heilman was walking through is exactly that. he essentially wa...