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Swing votes were guys like kennedy or hugo black. so who knows what they would rule. secondly, i think if you are getting written answers from the president, you are really getting them from his lawyers and his lawyers know that in an oral deposition, he does have the tendency to talk himself into trouble. so that would be forestalled in a written q&a. but we don't know what mueller knows. so it is possible that mueller has him dead to rights on this or that and he asks an impossible question that either trump will have to lie to get out of or concede that he broke the what you. a -- law. and ...

Senate. we have a responsibility to hear judge kavanaugh under oath. professor ford under oath on these allegations. had we had that information before the committee takes action and the debate for kavanaugh. >> it was a mistake for your colleagues for the democrats not to question kavanaugh about these allegations during the confirmation hearing four days of open question and answers during the closed door meetings that senators had with him, during the written q&a allowed. was it a mistake not to raise this issue with him during those weeks? >> we have been working, democrats have been worki...

Investigators if he somehow contradicted himself or didn't tell the truth. so this written q&a has been part of this range of options. and we saw that again in "the new york times" piece. they would love to have it in a dream world where they could get written questions from mueller's team and be able to sit down and parse out each word, how they want to respond. but of course, we know that investigators don't like that. they like to be able to read the body language of the person they're talking to. they read into the pauses, they read into the way they might word something. that wouldn't com...

Still, this is an opportunity for the special counsel to either answer some questions that make the issue go away or to certainly press the president about what he specifically was involved in and what else he's being told. so it becomes very important. >> and you know, the president has been telling his friends that he would like to, in fact, talk to special counsel. he's done this many times. don't forget, he's a serially litigious person. >> and the's lots of people cocky enough to think i can deal with these lawyers and their questions. i'll just put it all to bed. doesn't always work out ...