president s current attorney, to compile a list of potential questions that the legal team views as things that mueller could ask. so this started this list started life as kind of the areas well known to mueller and his team that they would obviously want to take the president to during an interview. it came the information from the mueller team came from after that march 5th meeting. that meeting revealed to both sides that they weren t going to agree on an interview, at least not yet. and you have mueller and his prosecutors and his investigators trying to prod the president and his attorneys to agree to an interview, to not just have written responses to questions but to sit down and to explain the president s intent on many of these decisions over the past year. joyce, you get two legal questions to start off. you get to tell our viewers whether it is possible whether we think in the confines of law in 2018 to successfully subpoena a president.
the ultimate question is whether or not he ll be successful in subpoenaing, forcing his testimony. and i think that what you see in this march 5th meeting and in the standoff that my colleague bob costa and i describe is that both sides were kind of plucking around each other, trying to say, hey, we may not have our guy sit down, and the other guy goes, hey, maybe we ll subpoena him then. and ultimately, there s some negatives for both sides, if this happens. if they go to the supreme court, it s going to take bob mueller a long time to get the president s firsthand account of why he took the actions he did. and if they subpoena him, it s going to take a long time for president trump to get the specter of the russia collusion investigation behind him, as he repeatedly claims he would like to do. you also report tonight, carol, that the white house approach to this, as sort of a pr matter, i say political
president to during an interview. it came the information from the mueller team came from after that march 5th meeting. that meeting revealed to both sides that they weren t going to agree on an interview, at least not yet. and you have mueller and his prosecutors and his investigators trying to prod the president and his attorneys to agree to an interview, to not just have written responses to questions but to sit down and to explain the president s intent on many of these decisions over the past year. joyce, you get two legal questions to start off. you get to tell our viewers whether it is possible whether we think in the confines of law in 2018 to successfully subpoena a president. and part two of the question, would mueller have had to have gone in there with at least the tacit approval of rosenstein at doj? it seems clear that doj believes that doj can subpoena a sitting president, and it s extremely unlikely, brian, that
president s current attorney, to compile a list of potential questions that the legal team views as things that mueller could ask. so this started this list started life as kind of the areas well known to mueller and his team that they would obviously want to take the president to during an interview. it came the information from the mueller team came from after that march 5th meeting. that meeting revealed to both sides that they weren t going to agree on an interview, at least not yet. and you have mueller and his prosecutors and his investigators trying to prod the president and his attorneys to agree to an interview, to not just have written responses to questions but to sit down and to explain the president s intent on many of these decisions over the past year. joyce, you get two legal questions to start off. you get to tell our viewers whether it is possible whether we think in the confines of law in 2018 to successfully subpoena
interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. however, special counsel robert mueller responded that he had another option if trump declined to speak with his investigators. mueller warned that he could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury. mueller s warning, the first time he s known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to trump s legal team, spurred a sharp retort from john dowd, who was then the president s lead lawyer on the russia matter. dowd reportedly said, quote, this isn t some game. you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. the post continues, in the wake of the march 5th meeting, mueller s team agreed to provide the president s lawyers with more specific information about the subjects that prosecutors wished to discuss with the president. with these details in hand, trump lawyer jay sekulow compiled a list of 49 questions that the team believed the president would be asked.