about this case. because so far cohen isn t out there and somewhat out there. given some interviews so he needs someone out there publicly you know we ll see what he does. can i ask a question? what is the point of that tweet? what is the point of, you know, picking these fights and getting all this publicity? the prosecutors in the southern district, the prosecutors in mueller s office, they don t care about lanny davis tweets. and to you know, make like a sort of macho posturing against the president, it just doesn t matter an it s just all this, you know, whether it s michael cohen s ego to feed, i just don t go ahead. is anybody really surprised that this is where we re at here? i think the day that michael cohen had a home and office raided and 16 phones taken, i think things changed and i think the president understood that at the time. and i think that s why he reacted the way he did and we see how michael cohen reacted and two things that stood out to
was told that many times, can you give the man a break either by his lawyers, relatives, by friends. reporter: so you see the president s lawyer there confirming in some way president trump suggested comey to go easy on flynn. what are you hearing about the demands that the trump legal team making if mueller wants a interview with the president? reporter: we know that the president s new legal team and that includes rudy giuliani has been much more antagonist with the mueller investigation and now rudy giuliani tells the new york times and other outlets to see proof that the president has committed some kind of crime before president trump decides to sit for an interview and also wants the mueller team to make it clear why they need testimony from the president and to show that they could not get it from anyone else involved this. these are pretty high demands. it s very unlikely that mueller s team would go along with them and could pull out a trump card saying we re moving
again a lot of theatrics going into tonight. certainly could. jeffrey, the supreme court potentially could be at the center of a big fight involving robert mueller s subpoena power if there s a disputd of the president and mueller on this issue of a presidential interview, for example. is it possible the new justice whoever that new justice is, assuming that justice is confirmed, at the center of this decision? absolutely. i mean, that is an issue that seems or the likely. if you listen to rudy giuliani, it certainly doesn t look like a voluntary interview is happening any time soon. mueller could issue a grand jury subpoena and that case travel up the appeals process very quickly. that was an issue in 1974 in united states versus nixon when there was unanimity on the court that the president had to surrender the white house tapes. this would be a similar case, not identical because it would involve testimony as opposed to tapes, but that s a case to certainly be before that may