accidentally but in discussing a material matter you intentionally misstate it or omit. then yes you have committed a federal crime and you can be prosecuted. it s not perjury, which is lying under oath. but this crime of making a false statement to a federal agent would be available in that setting. charlie n your reporting, what does it look like? what do the other options look like for the white house if they don t want to go down this road of the land mine that you write about that an interview would entail? do they have a list of other options? because they are not getting rid of robert mueller. they have been talking about, mr. mueller what if we instead gave you a written statement, written answers in response to the questions you may have about these various topics? it doesn t seem like of course we are seeing all this through a glass darkly. but that doesn t seem like anything the special counsel s office issing go to be satisfied by. that sets up the question of
they have and one lie or one close to a lie about a material matter and he s facing a potential indictment. i don t know what would happen with the indictment because he is a sitting president. no sitting president has ever been indicted for a crime but if the feds want to trap you, they are very, very good at doing it. donald trump is a very headstrong person who probably believes he is smarter than his interrogators and he may be, but he doesn t know more about the case than they do. it s a trap and he ought to stay away from it. martha: if you are the white house attorneys, you re trying to push at this point for submitted questions and answers on paper. will they get that? if i m the attorney i don t want my client to communicate with bob mueller at all. bob mueller and his team martha: do they have to? they absolutely don t. he doesn t have to speak to them. they can ask for it and he can say thank you, no, i m the president and i have more important things to do. that s
dream act is stalled. romney bashed the president s end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he s elected in november. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, let s step back and look at the issue. what would you do about it? as you know, he was president for the last three and a half years, did nothing on immigration. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap measure.
dream act is stalled. romney bashed the president s end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he s elected in november. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, let s step back and look at the issue. what would you do about it? as you know, he was president for the last 3 1/2 years, did nothing on immigration. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap measure. romney d
end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he s elected in november. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, let s step back and look at the issue. what would you do about it? as you know, he was president for the last three and a half years, did nothing on immigration. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap measure. during the rest of the interview, romney didn t r