his lawyers, he risks a massive legal battle. if mueller wants to try to take him to court to get him to talk to him, he risks bolstering public opinion that he s not working with the mueller investigation, that he has something to hide. a recent washington post /abc poll said 50% of americans don t think he s working with the investigation. 49% think he obstructed justice with regard to this investigation. but the bigger danger for trump could be sitting down and actually talking. that is, as everyone has talked about, inconsistency with the truth. mueller has pieced together minute by minute, hour-by-hour. trump is here and says thousands of misleading and false comments for the last year. my read on it, the president may have been watching tv on the executive day and got sick of hearing friends and lawyers who didn t think he could do this without getting caught lying. he wanted to say look, i can