question of whether or not rod rosenstein should be recused. he oversees the mueller investigation because he has to. because jeff sessions is recused because of his actions, you know, in the run-up to the election and the aftermath. so should rosenstein now be recused? is he really the right person to oversee an investigation into a man who he may have helped in the chaotic days after, you know, the election and just before jim comey was fired? k. and i think rosenstein had given an interview a while back which i think is quoted in the times piece this evening in which rosenstein essentially says he s in communication with muell mueller, if mueller ever tells him he s a, you know, a witness or believes mueller should step aside that he would. that rosenstein should step aside, rosenstein says he would. that s absolutely correct. and so far as we know, mueller hasn t done that. because we re going to take representati representative s word that he would recuse himself if necessar
high profile cases of presidential power and presidential mischief. they re girding for a fight. it s all the president talks about in private is wanting to fight this wanting to fight mueller. wanting to get it over. and the problem is to get it over, certainly if you want to get it over quickly, he has to do the interview with mueller. now that we all know what the questions are that he s going to ask, every lawyer you talk to, every lawyer that trump talks to says hell no, you can t sit for an interview like that you ll trap yourself. too broad, too much into your thinking. it covers every part of your life. way too many landmines for the most disciplined of clients, and certainly way too many for donald trump. jim vandehei. you can sign up for the axios newsletter at axios.com. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. and morning joe starts right now. there was no knowledge of
president may rely more heavily on executive privilege, which could shut down certain questions from robert mueller. the scope of that interview is being negotiated. with prudy giuliani explain wha they want. questions in advance. relevant topics. and they are going to decide before the end of the summer. reporter: so what happens if both sides can t come to an agreement? mueller might try to force the president to talk by issuing a subpoena. any president can be subpoenaed, jefferson, nixon and clinton all were. but it would be up to the president whether to comply or not. he would have four options to consider. option one, testify and answer questions like the president said he d be willing to do last summer. 100%. reporter: option two, plead the fifth and answer no questions. a maneuver he s blasted before. the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you
because you said i accepted their recommendation. but you had already made the decision. i was going to fire regardless of the recommendation. so michael flynn is hitting the campaign trail this weekend on behalf of a republican hopeful. he s scheduled to appear in billings, montana, with troy downing, one of four candidates running in the june 5th republican senate primary. he s promoting his appearance on the campaign website. flynn has pled guilty to lying to the fbi as part of the special counsel s probe. we reported that mueller s team asked that flynn s sentencing be delayed by 60 days, quote, due to the status of the special counsel s investigation. joining us now from washington is white house report er for th associated press jill colvin. lots to talk about. let s start with the legal front. the team there has been shaken up with giuliani being added.
from what we can expect to see from the legal team going forward, what should we be looking at here? this is significant not just because new people have joined the team, but this indicates that the white house is going to be going in a much more aggressive direction now. ty cobb was the person in the room who always spoken as being the moderating influence. he was encouraging the president and everyone else around the president to cooperate with muell mueller s investigation. he said if we sit down for the interviews and provide the documents, that s the best strategy to make this it thing go away. he was also the one that kept promise lg the president this thing is is going to be over by thanksgiving of last year. that obviously hasn t. happened. keep in mind that there is likely or there s talk there could be some changes in the white house counsel s team with right now the white house counsel looking for the exits. we could see him taking over