james comey. that could open the president up to a potential perjury charge. giuliani telling the wall street journal we think the obstruction of it is handled by article two of the constitution. the provision giving the authority to appoint and dismiss members of his administration. so rudy giuliani is really focused on negotiating publicly for terms at a private interview and i think that s a press strategy but in terms of a legal strategy, do you think that they have any say in what an interview might look like? if one happens? your world i will always go back to quoting judge andrew napolitano, one of my favorite people walking on planet earth that you do not let your client can sit down for an interview, for over five guiltyl counsel mueller has extracted or related to lying to investigators for lying to the fbi. it is a felony. for this is how they get your time and time again.
longingly about him resigning. and then we go to the day that special counsel mueller well, before we go to that, that s march of 2017. march of 2016, you wrote god, hillary should one 100 million to zero. i would assume former secretary of state clinton? that s correct. m march of 2016 weren t you investigating her for potentially mishandling of classified information. yes. had you interviewed her yet? no. had you interviewed other witnesses. i would have to check the if she had said something incriminating in your interview that took place months later, would she have won 100 million to zero then? likely not, no. why why wouldn t you wait until the investigation was over before you have her the nominee and winning a general election against an opponent that hadn t even been named why et?
the but it should not change the investigation and special counsel mueller will actual or tolerating any kiefin. multiple charges now for paul manafort. as evan pointed out, there are now 20 individuals involved here, three companies. any time there s a new drichlt kil nick supposedly has connections to he was thought to be person a. why wasn t he indicted earlier? was manafort trying to maybe work with him to try to testify against manafort and he didn t cooperate? hard to say. all of a sudden very late in the
so there are certain things a president and his team don t know that mueller knows. so it could be an attempt to try to set the parameters of the debate and allow yourself to be able to use different options if you need them in the future. it melissa: by dark, you mean quiet, not foreboding. right, we haven t seen a lot of public activities. we haven t seen any additional public actions from mueller and his team. you talk about the timing as well, it s very interesting. this is the 500th day of the administration, the president tweeted earlier about some of his accomplishments was an interesting choice to be leaning in on some of these columns. melissa: it makes you feel like he wants to keep the theme of i m doing great things but they re still chasing me down and trying to take me out alive and maybe republicans feel like that helps them into the midterm, had a vote for republicans or democrats are going to impeach him no matter what, going to try to get him no
apology can t erase what s been done, it does go a long way in showing wrong and also helping the public move forward. i this interview cially for the clintons and those who are in the democratic party doing nothing to help the party, i think democrats just want them to retire quietly. rick: i m wondering if you think also the impeachment talk might be premature because there is so far zero evidence of collusion on the part of president trump. as we know, robert mueller has already charged 19 people with various crimes, none of which is collusion, which is not a crime in and of itself. but three trump campaign officials have been charged and he has accepted five guilty plea is already. ere is no evidence that we have seen to date that would seem to connect to the president to that for candidate donald trump to that so far. but mueller s iestigation is not over. i think the point that clinton