these meetings with giuliani. mueller is in the meetings. there are other folks from the office there. what s gone on here, what it looks like, is that mueller really wants the president to sit for an interview. why? because mueller believes that to complete the investigation, he has to talk to the president. he has to know whether he had criminal intent in the decision to fire comey and the other obstruction of justice what are the other you have all the story about the obstruction questions. what were the other obstruction buck snets wh buckets. what does he want to ask about? the efforts to get sessions to resign, when he had don mcgahn lobby sessions to not recuse himself from the investigation. talk about his efforts to fire mueller himself when trump asked don mcgahn last year to, to have mueller fired. and some of this information is coming to mueller in real-time. people have having to go back and update their testimony.
some of these early interactions around the contemporaneous memos comey took about the interactions. talk about the intersection of mueller s interest in donald trump and comey s interactions with trump in those moments. if you take a look at the larger sort of arc of trump s time in office and comey, and you sort of look at what these different witnesses like comey and white house officials like don mcgahn have told mueller, there begins to be a narrative of sorts. why is the president so obsessed with loyalty? why does he ask comey for loyalty seven days into office? why does he follow that up on february 14th just a few days later asking him to end the flynn investigation? is there a larger pattern here? how does sessions play into it? the president having don mcgahn lobby sessions not to recuse himself, then after mueller is appointed the president pushing sessions as hard as he can to get sessions to resign. what are these instances about? is this simply the president