legally speaking where do you see it? i think you re right. i think this is just the beginning. we all know there are more than a dozen other investigations involving the trump organization, the trump inauguration committee and a variety of other things surrounding donald trump. and i think it s important to not forget that. you have the southern district of new york involved. you have new york attorney general involved, perhaps the manhattan da, district of virginia. would they have access to that information for their investigation or would they have to do it on their own? it depends on what mueller has kicked over to them during the fact finding process. i think this is just the beginning, but i think it s important to note congress recently held a vote. 420 congress members voted for this report to be released. and we have on record congress men and women saying listen, we think it s important for the american public to see this report. and daniel of course is correct, my hig
former justice department join us now as we await the resumption of this hearing. what do you think so far? i think lot of people are going to see what they want to see or hear what they want to hear. there s two issues. one of which, cohen started referring to himself as cooperating, with the southern districts of new york. i m in the sure i buy that. i don t think they ll let him take the witness stand. that s intriguing. that s one i think really needs to follow-up. i ll be interested to see if the southern district confirms it. neil: that s been your concern too. we were so focused on mueller and probe, we haven t look at the southern district. chris christy has been saying the same thing. that s where the president should be worried.
president s presidency. if cohen is being truthful and if the government can corroborate what he said today, there s at least four potential felonies of what he has accused the president president of the unitepresident of theunited sta. neil: back to your basic one. we are essentially on the word of someone going off to jail. now, his testimony is taken as gospel. where does this go? it actually depends upon two prosecuting offices. it depends on what mueller wants to do. does he have enough evidence from cohen corroborating, you can t use cohen s word alone, does prosecutors here in new york city have enough evidence. neil: it s potentially bigger issue.
from the president. jim? alex marquardt, thanks very much. let s discuss with our legal experts. and jennifer rogers, if i could begin with you. we ve been talking, the president has been talking for months about how happy he would be to sit down across from the special counsel. that seems less likely now. and you have a sitting acting attorney general, the president appointed, who has criticized this investigation, who would have to approve of a subpoena for a presidential sitdown. in your view, is that issue effectively dead now with whitaker in that spot and these written questions now submitted? it depends on what mueller decides to do. it s at some level a strategy game. he ll have to see what he gets from the president and whether it s worth it to enter into what may initially be a fight with whitaker whether to issue the subpoena in the first place and certainly a very protracted legal battle, which will go all the way to the supreme court, take a whole lot of time. and the
welcome back. rudy guiliani telling cnn that president trump would consider any followup questions on possible russian collusion after the president s admitted written answers to the special counsel, robert mueller yesterday. guiliani cautioned that any questions about obstruction would likely go unanswered, arguing that the president is protected by executive privilege. alex, does this mean that the mueller probe is coming to an end without that long-discussed presidential sitdown interview? jim, on that question, the mueller side has been very quiet. and in reality, the ball is in their court. so what this round of written answers shows is that president trump is being accommodating for now, but that may be tested by what mueller decides to do next. after months of legal back and forth and tense negotiation, special counsel robert mueller has finally received president