important to realize that what s going on in the district of new york is not under the counsel mueller. this is a separate investigation by a united states attorney s office in the southern district of new york. so it s a separate deal. whatever happens to mueller and i hope nothing happens it won t affect that prosecution. it s a serious matter, no question. because mr. cohen s name coming up in connection with all of these things, whether it s the stormy daniels or the russians. he seems to have some involvement in all of those things. all right. senator angus king, independent of maine, good to see you, sir. thanks for jing us. thank you. president trump can t seem to help himself this morning in a flurry of tweets taking on james comey hours before the former fbi director first television interview and change about the raid on the lawyers s office. preet bharara is here to bach that next. stay with us.
in his book compared to what is occurring in terms of his recounting of his meeting with the president, meetings with the president earlier last year. it s very important that the american people get to hear the whole story. mr. comey is out for revenge, i would say, when he talks about a higher justice. he s really talking about a higher view of himself than i think the american people have but they need to have all the facts and the comey memos certainly play apart of that. these are in the possession of the department of justice and special counsel mueller and there s absolutely no reason why they should not be made available. there s no legal principle to not make them available to the congress. maria: congressman three weeks ago you appeared on this program and you broke the news that you would in fact subpoena the department of justice, the fbi, if you did not receive the
be the requirement for the president s counsel lawyer to provide a list of who are his clients, right? that s tomorrow, 10:00 a.m. i believe is the deadline for him. the question i have for you on this, when you look at the entire investigation on the president regarding his relationship, question of obstruction of justice, russia, all of this certainly something that you re used to talking about, when we look at the mueller investigation itself, what do you expect to happen? new york times saying president trump sees the inquiry as greater threat than special counsel mueller. last month congresswoman rice and i asking them to investigate michael cohen and national enquirer, making payments to silence women with negative stories about affairs with donald trump in a presidential election, and that is violation of campaign finance laws.
russians, we have to see if this hostile pressure towards russia holds, or whether we see the president return to a more welcoming stance and something akin to the posture that he took in the campaign and the policy he s taking toward russia earlier in his presidency. julia, the strike here include ed included a the new york times says president trump sees the inquiry into cohen a greater threat than special counsel mueller. julia, can you talk about how serious the president is taking this? right. i think the president is taking this very seriously. michael cohen has a very close relationship with the president. he s seen as his fixer, his personal lawyer, and now he s losing that relationship because michael cohen is under
donald trump s lawyers have begun preparing him for the special counsel. this is the biggest hint yet that he s preparing for an interview with robert mueller and his team. the president has said multiple times, at least publicly, that he wants to sit down with mueller. . mr. president, would you still like to testify to counsel mueller? would you be willing to speak to counsel mueller? 100%. are you going to talk to mueller? i m looking forward to it, actually. to reach a higher standard, you would do it under oath, correct? i would do it under oath. trump s own advisers fear it could expose him to charges of perjury. let s get straight to pamela brown on this cnn report. obviously, the lawyers are saying, no, no, no, all kinds of parameters, but if they re going ahead with preparations for this