accidentally but in discussing a material matter you intentionally misstate it or omit. then yes you have committed a federal crime and you can be prosecuted. it s not perjury, which is lying under oath. but this crime of making a false statement to a federal agent would be available in that setting. charlie n your reporting, what does it look like? what do the other options look like for the white house if they don t want to go down this road of the land mine that you write about that an interview would entail? do they have a list of other options? because they are not getting rid of robert mueller. they have been talking about, mr. mueller what if we instead gave you a written statement, written answers in response to the questions you may have about these various topics? it doesn t seem like of course we are seeing all this through a glass darkly. but that doesn t seem like anything the special counsel s office issing go to be satisfied by. that sets up the question of