extraordinary move that the justice department almost made to issue a subpoena for the president. >> well, ana, we knew that for the better part of a year, there were negotiations between trump's legal team and the special counsel's office, because the special counsel wanted a wide-ranging interview. they wanted to sit down with him to assess, obviously, his state of mind, his intent on a whole host of issues related to this investigation. but we're learning tonight how there were actually internal discussions, sensitive deliberations between the justice department and the special counsel's office raising the specter of a formal subpoena for the president. now, ultimately, that never came to pass. but the fact that it was raised at all is a significant move, and it shows just how critical this time period was and how they were really going to the limit to try to see what exactly they could find out here. now, it's interesting in bill barr's four-page letter to congress today, he finds there