narrow the scope of any potential interview with the president to russia, and what happened prepresidency with russia. and what they re saying is, prepresidency is fine. there are no issues there. there s no constitutional issues there. there s no privilege issues there. but they are saying to mueller, and our sources are telling us that unlikely mueller will accept this, but if you want to deal with the issue of obstruction, we would hike likeo it in written answers. so they have proposed this. again, nobody expects mueller to accept this. but it s part of a narrative also that says, we re trying. we re not just going to dismiss testifying, and trump can then go out and say, if it all falls apart or this goes to the supreme court, they can say look, we were dealing in good faith, and we made these proposals. and bob mueller didn t think it
showdown between trump and mueller. we are all so excited that you re in the building. it s great to have you here. you re so nice to have me. thanks. let me ask you about rudy s latest move. so the only person who was surprised by the fact that bob mueller didn t want to submit a written take home test to the president was rudy giuliani. no one really expected this was how it would play out, not because mueller is being difficult, not because he wants to put the president in a perjury trial, but because as a serious prosecutor, you have obligations to build the evidence in the case. this an instance where mueller apparently feels strongly he needs an in-person interview and the law will likely support that. there s plenty of evidence. the things that are written for him have no relationship to the things in his own brain. he reads a speech and within 45 minutes he attacks it on twitter. there s no example you can point to where anything that s been written for him by anyone el
legal standpoint. the judge could still rule this way. would manafort be off the hook if that were to happen? in judge ellis dismiss is this indictment that bob mueller didn t have the jurisdiction to prosecute this charge in this virginia. then the local prosecutors will get another indictment from another grand jury and they ll prosecute it. manafort won t be out of the woods. big headline but you aren t thinking legally. politically it is significant. it gave the president a handle but legally of no significance at all. judge ellis, a very experienced and wise trial judge knows that. bill: rudy giuliani would argue go ahead and subpoena us. maybe you will, maybe you won t but if you do we ll take it all the way to the u.s. supreme court. you can t prosecute a sitting president.
predicting early next. i wonder if any attorney should be giving these promises with these goal posts for any client. this is a combination of client management and fake news. i think really from the client management side, trying to do something to pacify the president to make him think there s an end in sight and at the other time trying to spin us on when they think it will wrap up to make us think there s nothing out there. there s just no indication that this thing is coming to a close. mike flynn who has entered a plea and cooperating. bob mueller didn t give him that kind of deal, that kind of sweetheart deal, just so he can close this up by the end of the year. my guess is that there s more things coming, more information out there and you don t have to look any further than the fact that remember that the president has been, by all accounts, complicit in the formulation of this letter on air force one outlining the meeting, the russia meeting, trying to hide what the purpose
means if flynn was pardoned for lying to the fbi, he still signed an agreement to cooperate with any local prosecutors who mueller chooses. is that arrangement in all the jarlt s plea deals? no. well, not all cooperation agreements even publicly available, a review of 18 agreements the doj did publicly release shows most do not explicitly require quoopgs local prosecutors. even mueller doesn t always use this requirement because his other plea deal with special counsel with that former trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos, there is to reference to local prosecutions. so what does this all mean? let s be clear. nobody knows if donald trump will pardon people in this probe. nobody knows what bob mueller would do if there are pardons. but good prosecutors don t make predictions. they prepare methodically for every possible outcome. bob mueller didn t just get mike flynn to flip. he got him to pledge potential