from the president. jim? >> alex marquardt, thanks very much. let's discuss with our legal experts. and jennifer rogers, if i could begin with you. we've been talking, the president has been talking for months about how happy he would be to sit down across from the special counsel. that seems less likely now. and you have a sitting acting attorney general, the president appointed, who has criticized this investigation, who would have to approve of a subpoena for a presidential sitdown. in your view, is that issue effectively dead now with whitaker in that spot and these written questions now submitted? >> it depends on what mueller decides to do. it's at some level a strategy game. he'll have to see what he gets from the president and whether it's worth it to enter into what may initially be a fight with whitaker whether to issue the subpoena in the first place and certainly a very protracted legal battle, which will go all the way to the supreme court, take a whole lot of time. and the question is, at the end of the day, you know, is the president just going to take the fifth anyway and not answer any questions? so mueller and his team are going to have to sit down and