president clinton twice and fisk, the predecessor of the starr, interviewed him once. there were three interviews by the special counsel of clinton. there is not an absence of precedent for doing it that way as well. michael zeldin, appreciate your time. plfrt your time. i want to bring in the panel. david gergen, tara setmayer and stephen moore. david, i mean, how much room do you think the president s team really does have to negotiate? i mean, he could be subpoenaed, but i think they have some room to negotiate, but ultimately they re going to be forced maybe far more than they want to. it looks to me so far that the president having a good cop, bad cop routine with the president, he s going to be the good cop saying, yes, i m going to cooperate and his lawyers will say, yes, but. and then they ll draw all sorts of lines. one issue is of scope and that is, steve bannon thought the ultimate issue was going to be money laundering. right. financial. the president said, i m no
feel it is fair for a special prosecutor and what about the allegation and this woman eight years ago but it has to be about what happened during the campaign and in the white house and i don t think donald trump did anything wrong so my point is, yeah, let s bring this thing to a conclusion. you re saying it doesn t have to be restricted to that? yes. why? because i mentioned this last time i was here, there could absolutely be an issue with his monetary connections with russia that has everything to do with how he might be beholden to the russian government and to how this meddling actually happened. i think it is actually a gore of this investigation he should be able to look into his taxes? yes, i absolutely think that. the other thing is i think that this is going to be a huge issue and a huge challenge for trump s
the book has been out for nearly a week. how many people have come out of this white house and said, wolff is wrong. steve bannon who is a chief accuser has never taken back a word of what he said and the number of people like steve miller is very small. and that silence from the white house staff is deafening. the content of the tweet isn t the issue. i mean, i understand. i would be mad, too. but it s that impulse control that speaks to fitness, right? and i think that people not coming out, as you said, davids, speaks to the reality of people seeing constantly that lack of impulse. david, you ve been around many presidents in your life. look, do you really believe this man is mentally unfit to be president? i mean, really? that s incredible. i m not a psychiatrist, and i would hate to make a clinical
very, very high levels of employment and low levels of unemployment. basically the data saying that more americans are working. so as more americans start to work, you ll start to see some of those job gains maybe slow down a bit. talk to us about wages, though. because unemployment isn t the issue. we have been at full employment basically since the president president obama handed president trump an economy where we were at full employment. the issue is that companies have gotten so efficient, they ve got us all working part-time jobs. wages are capped. you might have a job at whole foods but it s for 31 hours a week and you can t get yourself any benefits. when are we actually going to see the wage impact? because at any other time in the economy, you would see wages notch higher and they simply haven t in any significant way yet. no, stephanie, that s a great point. the thing that many people are looking for on wall street and elsewhere on main street especially is when is my
was she and her campaign and the dnc, they put people up to try to frame the trump campaign. that s the narrative being spun today in conjunction, no small irony, with these house investigations that are a blast into the past of the obama administration. do you believe that s a justifiable basis on your reporting? well, i think, you know, i think it s important for people to understand who was bankrolling this effort, this investigation being done by fusion gps. that is a legitimate question and one that s now been answered. you know, the issue now is, what is the nature of the investigation currently being run by the special counsel? whether or not that is going to stand up details that were in these reports is yet to be seen. and where that investigation goes, we don t know. i think that s really the important question. it doesn t the fact that hillary clinton s campaign and the dnc through a lawyer was funding this research doesn t affect the fact that there is a