And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where President Trump is reportedly pressuring his legal team to secure a sitdown with the special counsel. Robert mueller has a new Interview Offer on the table for the president. What personal attorney Rudy Giuliani calls slight improvement by investigators in their offer. Three sources briefed on the matter are telling the New York Times that the mueller team wants to discuss possible coordination with Trump Associates and russians and whether President Trump tried to obstruct adjustmenjustice. The special counsel is willing to accept some written answers from the president but wants the ability to ask followup questions of the president. Peter alexander is at the white house. Bob bauer is here with me. Peter, what do we know so far about this possible Interview Offer . It appears from this that as of now mueller is not really
considering the possibility of pushing it all the way to a subpoena for an unwilling president , whic
Manafort. And speaking of flipping today, Ruby Red District in ohio may be the latest to elect a democrat in a special election. We will get to that in a moment. First lets go outside of the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, on the trial of Paul Manafort. Joe johns is here with an update. Good morning, joe. Rick gates back on the stand, taking questions from prosecutors, laying out the government case. They say it is illegal conduct that goes all the way from 2008 to 2015. Thats seven years. Meanwhile, in 2016, mr. Manafort took over as the Campaign Chairman for the trump campaign, rick gates was right there beside him as his deputy. So what did we learn so far . Among the most important testimony is his testimony that
our Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider is here, former u. S. Attorney greg bower joining me. And analyst xian wu. Lay out your representation previously of rick gates so its on the table. Right. We had represented rick from the time that he was indicted to
saying a lot of the things that he wanted to say that engoron wanted him to commit to not saying. he got everything he wanted, even though he only got five minutes. just as a spectator, i felt yanked around. i wonder how judge engoron felt. let me quickly ask you fore you go, lisa, we take a look at include least one more trial in new york. whh of these, if any, do you think is most likely to wrap up with a verdict before the november election? my money is still d.c. election subversion trial. i don t think it will go to trial on march 4th, because of the delays occasion by trump s appeal. that having been said, it is the most likely of the federal trials to go to court, and i think there s an understanding on the half of both the state d.a.s when prosecuting former president trump, but the federal trials might need to come first. we can tenuously see showing that she doesn t intend