before the dossier. and it comes as robert mueller is figuring out how he will question, interrogate, if you will, president trump about his contacts, which he had, with russithe russians. that s ahead. plus, oprah s closest friend, gayle king, says that oprah s intrigued by the idea of actually running for president of the united states. today, trump said he could beater. big surprise. and inside trump s extraordinary meeting on immigration. it was a rare look behind sustains of the back and forth negotiations between i thought it was a potempkin village. it was a way for trump to push back against claims that he was not mentally fit to have such meetings. finally, let me finish tonight with trump watch. i think you ll like it. he won t. this is hardball, where the saks. not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she s the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like w
this probe so far, this russian probe, have faced at least one count of making false statements to federal officials. arguing today that the president should only respond to written questions, like a take-home test, trump ally newt gingrich warned that the president could find himself out-matched against mueller s prosecutors if it were a face-to-face setting. i think that they should proffer that mueller can submit written questions and they ll answer his written questions. make it that easy. but i would not get involved in a free-for-all. i think the idea of putting trump in a room with five or six hardened, very, very clever lawyers, all of whom who are trying to trap him, would be a very, very bad idea. there you just heard newt gingrich s inef-able, statement that the president s not up to it mentally. negotiations over the format of a questioning over the president is ongoing right now. but if trump s lawyer team does not cooperate, mueller could subpoena the president to
the hope that they can mitigate this, they can stand between him and the havoc and chaos that he is, he is inevitably prone to. so, in a sense, i mean, in a sense, you want to say to these people, how can you do this, how can you enable them. but in another sense, you can see many of these people, and many of them are now gone, dangerously, you can see them as patriots. well, let me ask you about what do you think the reaction is i have to project here a little bit on the trajectory. these people in the white house know what happened today. bannon has now not only been kicked out of the white house, he s been kicked out of breitbart. the president has tracked him down or his minions have. do you think they re now more trepidatious to hunt down their enemy and destroy him to the end. yes, but there s really not
position. how can they deny if the guy says, i m going to subpoena you, buddy, i don t care if you re president of the united states, what could he do about it? and by the way, i would not give this president a take-home quiz, let him take it back to smarter people than him and let them answer the questions overnight or over 48 hours or whatever, because you lose the whole advantage of surprise, don t you? absolutely, i don t think there s any realistic possibility that robert mueller would accept written responses. it s really important to a prosecutor, as i m sure it is to a reporter, to able to not only get the answer to the questions, but get them unfiltered in the person s own words, and to be able to watch them, to watch body language, to listen to tone, to make credibility assessments. i don t think there s any way that robert mueller would accept those terms. i think as a matter of professional courtesy, respect for the position of the presidency of the united states that t
no, i absolutely don t think that her position has changed. i don t. i was up talking to her very late last night. i do think this, though, guys. i do think she s intrigued by the idea. i do know that. i also know, after years of watching the oprah show, you can always change your mind. i don t think she s considering it. will she run? and does the buzz surrounding it say? cornell belcher, democratic pollster and strategist john brabender, republican strategist. i don t know, but here s the question i ve got. does hollywood actually have in the past, when you had candidate es like bernie or geoe mcgovern way back then, hollywood would get behind people, certainly obama. but they wouldn t instigate. they wouldn t say, here s our candidate for president. i know she s not a hollywood person, but she s a hollywood endorsee. can hollywood push a candidate out on to the arena and give