felt he didn t need more. this is one of those unanswered questions we re left with. at least one individual shares the assessment from betsy woodruff s reporting and that s congressman adam schiff. let s watch him in comments made yesterday. if indeed mr. mueller decides not to issue that subpoena or figure out how to get the president in front of that grand jury, is that going to have been a mistake considering we have so many questions about whose testimony should you believe, michael cohen s or donald trump? yes, i think it is a mistake. i have said all along that i boept think bob mueller should rely on written answers. when you get written answers, it s really as much as the lawyer s answer as the client answers and here you need to ask followup questions in realtime. followup questions in realtime is the thing rudy giuliani, chris christie and lawyers in the white house said over my dead body will donald trump answer followup questions in person. that was never on the ta
mano conversation. why? because you can detect credibility, you can ask followup questions, you can look at things that are otherwise sterile and actually bring them to life. and unless you have that, you were left at the mercy of lawyers. and why would mueller trade the leverage he has for taking a second fiddle and just getting the leftovers? he has to have a meaningful conversation. but he only has to have that conversation if he has no other way to corroborate or lock it in. remember, in a way, all of the american people had a conversation with donald trump when you watched the lester holt interview. you had an in-person discussion when you heard about the motivation for firing james comey. when you read his twitter characters. and so in many ways, the president has created his own ad hoc sort of interviews and maybe even eliminated the great need for mueller to do that. do you think there s any chance that rudy guiliani and the president s legal team would let him would ask hi