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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but simply because of the department of justice rule that the president is not indicted he got away on that technicality. it s up to congress to act. you asked john dean about president trump s oval office meeting where he asked comey to let the flynn thing go, according to the mueller report. dean compared that to nixon instructing his chief of staff to have the cia to stop its investigation. what do you make of that comparison? do you agree with that? he was drawing historical analogies throughout the entire afternoon. one of the other witnesses said this was actually not one of the most striking cases of obstruction in there. and there clearly are cases with more vivid facts, like telling the white house counsel that he would be fired. and firing him if he did not go ahead and fire the special counsel. in other words, ordering the white house counsel to fire mueller and then ordering him to cover that up.
conclusion that this president committed multiple acts of obstruction of justice. that s exactly what john dean testified to and our other two academic witnesses. they testified on behalf of more than 1,000 prosecutors and attorneys. we re talking william barr s colleagues who said anybody else in america would have been marched out in handcuffs had they done what donald trump did. but simply because of the department of justice rule that the president is not indicted he got away on that technicality. it s up to congress to act. you asked john dean about president trump s oval office meeting where he asked comey to let the flynn thing go, according to the mueller report. dean compared that to nixon instructing his chief of staff to have the cia to stop its investigation. what do you make of that comparison? do you agree with that? he was drawing historical analogies throughout the entire afternoon. one of the other witnesses said
so hard for the full mueller report and all of the supporting documents is because the mueller report contains ten specific instances where the president obstructed justice, and this is additional information. now it makes sense that the president was trying, if you remember, to have director comey leave and let this flynn thing go. we all wondered why was the president treating mr. flynn so differently, trying to get the fbi director to sort of let the thing go, never attacking him publicly, and now we at least have part of the answer. it s very important that the committee get the full context of this, the supporting documents, the tape recordings if there are any. again, this underscores the committee s urgent demand that these materials be made available to us so we can do our work to hold this administration accountable, to make judgments about how to proceed and whether or not impeachment is appropriate. this is further evidence of the need to do that. what might these individu
denials yesterday. that was pretty fascinating. it s not, you know, the best kind of lawyering i ve ever seen in my life. i think a lot of people are saying it was similar to when president trump told james comey the director of the fbi at the time i hope you can let this flynn thing go, the emphasis being on the word hope. it wasn t a direct order. it s also interesting the special counsel chose this specific story to speak out on. there s so many other stories as to what the special is gathering and they have never come out and said this is wrong. let s talk here about the president s deal, the deal that the president is trying to make and get the government back open, blake, with the daca offer to democrats over the weekend. do you think that s sort of enough of a give on the president s behalf to get shutdown negotiations going again? well, democrats are definitely saying it s not and i think the tell here is if it were a serious offer you would have gone privately to schumer