President itself wants to do the interview and its only his lawyers holding him back. So what is really going on here . Does the president want to talk or not . Politico suggests the answer is yes. Despite the risks. Thats because of, quote, trumps belief in his selfcreated myth, that he can convince anyone of anything if hes simply given the opportunity to get them in a room alone. Apparently that includes Special Counsel bob mueller himself. I want to bring in nbcs Peter Alexander whos live in berkeley heights, new jersey. Peter, if the president really wants to do it, he could just say yes. I mean, his legal take is working for him. So whats going on here . Yes, chris, you make a very good point. There would be one easy way for Rudy Giuliani and, frankly, President Trump, to wrap this thing up sooner. Giuliani saying he wants it to end within the next three weeks, by september 1st. He doesnt want it to interfere with the november elections. They would sit down with robert
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witch hunt. his sense of let me stop you because it raises an interesting question. if the president really does believe, and i think most folks do buy into this, he believes he can convince anybody of anything. it s why, right, he went to sit down with leaders of authoritarian countries. because he thought he could change the equation just by a face-to-face meeting. are his lawyers worried? are the people around him who don t want him to talk to mueller worried that in a split moment, he can agree to something just because that part of his personality becomes dominant? yes, the dominant part of his personality that worried his attorneys the most is his ability or his tendency to really stretch the truth. this is a person who has great connecti economic data, who has to go further and say it s the best and record setting economic d a data. a guy who sold his building by saying it was ten stories higher than it was.