of justice. if they issue a subpoena, that will be unprecedented in the sense that it s pretty clear that a president can t be subpoenaed to a criminal proceeding about him. do we have the real life circumstance going on that the founding fathers thought about. which is a president cannot be distracted by a criminal investigation. you can always prosecute him after. if mueller said to me tomorrow, bring him in, two hours, like you want, no questions that you don t want and we re pretty much ready to clear him. i could not go to the president and say take two days off to get ready for that and screw the whole thing with north korea. so giuliani gave a new justification for why president trump fired jim comey. watch this. he fired him and said i m free of this guy. he went on lester holt. the interview was as good as anybody could do.
this hanging over as a cloud over the elections so that there s a reason that anybody can blame what happens in the fall on him. a lot of people looking into the mueller investigation, if robert mueller is trying to figure out intent. if they re looking at obstruction of justice, intent is critical in a lot of the president s actions and for that you would think they would have to actually interview the president. that s their point i think. they would like to interview him. the point from the white house is we have given you over a million documents from everybody that s talked to the president and that the president of course keeps no notes and does no e-mails. so you have all of this information. the lawyers, i don t think, muell mueller s team, i don t think they re going to buy that but they do understand there s different rules for a president than there are for you and me. does it make sense that rosenstein would say to the president, we think at the end of last week, that
know as recently as last month, muell mueller s prosecutors were executing more search warrantsa them seeking materials for quote on going investigations that were not the subject of prosecution involving paul manafort. oh. and on top of that, honestly, nobody can figure out how it s possible the epa administrator is on his job afternon-step headlines covering everything prom h from him living in a will be bib lobbiest house or maybe not thought as important enough once he got there. joining us now is the great nicole wallace, host of deadline white house weekdays. nice to see you, my friend. nice to see you. you re hosting in for brian s
way more trouble than we can see or something they are seizing from manafort that relates to on going cases against other people? joining us now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney from the state great of alabama, somebody that gets these things much better than i do. thanks for being here. i m somewhat incoherent. you re not incoherent. thank you. you re nice saying it that way. let s listen to the new filing just been made public. nobody had that much time to review it. it appears from back and forth between manafort s lawyers and muell mueller s prosecutors this is the seventh search warrant executed against paul manafort and this can t be reacted even though manafort s lawyers want that because it relates to on going investigations. that vehicles me as strange given manafort is in trail in two different jurisdictions. does this seem more typical for you as someone that s been
recently. the president received programmers to questions that muell mueller wanted to ask him in an interview. this is going to go on for a long time. and maggie, the sentence that said the president received parameters to questions. he wanted john dowd to work with the special counsel. but i don t think you should sit down with the special counsel, mr. president. do we have any indication yet as to whether the president is now more willing to sit down or not? the president goes back and forth between believing that he can essentially sell anyone on anything, that he would be able to do the same with mueller to recognizing that there would be massive dangers in walking into this meeting with mueller s investigators. you know, there is we hear constantly from trump s team, you know, mueller is trying to set a perjury trap. one close trump adviser said to