to be hard to avoid any kind of question involving the collusion issue when the president is basically saying they knew what they were doing when they went into that trump tower meeting. you have focused a lot on the subpoena, specter of a subpoena here, as all of this continues. and you ve talked to a number of legal experts, i know, who have weighed in on this, told you with some surprise. it s curious to them that robert mueller hasn t pursued a subpoena yet. help me understand their thinking, why it seems so unorthodox to them, at least, that robert mueller hasn t done this, as this conversation about an interview continues. well, if robert mueller wanted to talk to the president, if he decides that that is a critical part of his investigation, it s important to use legal tools to get to that result. and a subpoena would take a while. you re going to almost definitely have a court battle. you could see a battle go all the way up to the supreme court. and there s been some repor
whether or not they get an obstruction case out it. the president s sister happens to be a sitting federal judge. that would be interesting. i ve looked around the panel. a lot of us have interviewed presidents. you re the only member who interviewed a president in a legal matter. what do you think the chances are of trump versus mueller face-to-face? i think that according to what mr. rudy giuliani says they will only let him be interviewed about collusion issue and not about obstruction. i think that s a very wise strategic choice. here is an interesting thing that nobody has commented on. mueller and the president s attorneys have been doing this dance for months now where mueller says i want to interview you and the lawyers have been saying rudy giuliani has been saying only if you do this and agree to do that. the question arises, why hasn t bob mueller brought him into court. why hasn t he issued a subpoena
presidents. you re the only member who interviewed a president in a legal matter. what do you think the chances are of trump versus mueller face-to-face? i think that according to what mr. rudy giuliani says they will only let him be interviewed about collusion issue and not about obstruction. i think that s a very wise strategic choice. here is an interesting thing that nobody has commented on. mueller and the president s attorneys have been doing this dance for months now where mueller says i want to interview you and the lawyers have been sayi ining rudy giuliani has be saying only if you do this and agree to do that. the question arises, why hasn t bob mueller brought him into court. why hasn t he issued a subpoena and said this guy will talk to me. i think one reason he hasn t done it is i don t think he necessarily wins in court. i think a lot of people assume
legal matter. what do you think the chances are of trump versus mueller face-to-face? i think that according to what mr. rudy giuliani says they will only let him be interviewed about collusion issue and not about obstruction. i think that s a very wise strategic choice. here is an interesting thing that nobody has commented on. mueller and the president s attorneys have been doing this dance for months now where mueller says i want to interview you and the lawyers have been saying rudy giuliani has been saying only if you do this and agree to do that. the question arises, why hasn t bob mueller brought him into court. why hasn t he issued a subpoena and said this guy will talk to
don t know of any evidence about it. and i don t understand why the president is saying it now. one of the things i have been saying for a year and a half, putin is an opportunist. he will make trouble wherever he can. i don t think that means he will support democrats or republicans or anybody else, his job is to sew discord and undermine this country and nato and those kinds of things. so the president s tweet is kind of interesting but i don t think there s any basis for it. shouldn t the president be railing against russian meddling in the u.s. elections, irrespective of who putin may want to help? of course he should, and that s the missed opportunity the last year and a half. the problem is the president doesn t seem to be able to separate the collusion issue between his campaign, whether there was collusion between his campaign and the russians and the fact that the russians did in fact attack our democracy. the sad part is by not making that distinction, he maintained