2018 election game by striking down partisan gerrymandering. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp, did the white house back the trump base. Theyre backing citizenship for 1. 8 million undocumented immigrants, but it will come at a steep cost for democrats. Well get to that story in a ploemant. Were going to begin with the president running towards a showdown with bob mueller, as his allies beg him to run away from sitting down with bob mueller. See if you notice a pattern. Under no circumstances should he grant mr. Mueller an interview. Its a suicide mission. Its a very clear perjury trap. Do you think thats a good move for him . Horrible. If i were his attorney, i would grab him by the ankle to prevent him from going into a room and given sworn testimony, walk into a perjury trap. I wouldnt let him get anywhere near this. Trump improvises as he goes. Its a perjury trap. Even if mueller isnt setting it up as a perjury
Presidency if allowed to continue unabated indefinitely. If he is concerned the investigation is moving to the west l wing, he has cause to worry. Mueller has focused on events since the election, not during the campaign, in his conversations with trumps lawyer, suggesting that mueller is zeroing in on the president s potential efforts to obstruct justice. All this just days after we learned that mueller has crossed what the president has said was his red line, subpoenaing his private business. The Trump Organization. Now nbc news confirming the New York Times reporting that the president has added an attorney known to pushing the Conspiracy Theory the fbi and Justice Department are out to frame the president. Thats where we begin this afternoon and joining us now from the Washington Post, White House Reporter ashley parker. With me here on set, Betsy Woodruff daily beast reporter. Chuck rosenberg, former u. S. Attorney and former senior official at the fbi now fortunately for our bene
Difficult for john dowd to maintain the same sort of relationship that he has had with the president. For the last nine or ten months. So dowd decided it was time to resign. Quite a strain, taking the role of the lead outside attorney. I dont know how much that might have played into it. Dowd has decided that he is not going to be with the president s legal team any more. Leaves him with two attorneys on the outside. Joe de genova along with jay seculow, a familiar face on fox news. Those two are now taking the helm. The outside counsel for the president , there are plans to bring more attorneys on to bolster that team as well. As the mueller investigation, harris, approaches a critical phase, that may include an interview of the president by Robert Mueller. John dowd was very much in opposition to that idea. Didnt see a real reason for it. Particularly with the tense upon tens of thousands of pages of documents, emails, other materials that he and ty cobb had been producing to the mue
Good evening. Im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily. There are two stories consuming this white house right now. Russia and Stormy Daniels. Today the white house announced it is expelling 60 of putins diplomats and shutting a fas alt in seattle. They joined with allies in responding to the alleged use of a deadly nerve agent to attempt to murder a spy in britain. We heard from numerous white house officials calling out russia but we did not hear from the president. At least not yet. And as for the white houses thinking on what the president might say about russias actions again, ill classify this action as both brazen and reckless. And i dont want to get ahead of president may declare later on. If today was a battle of narratives you could say the white house was trying to contain the narrative involving trump and putin and have lost control of the narrative involving trump and a porn star. They denied Stormy Daniels allegations like the white house did aga
Colleague report that Robert Mueller has raised the possibility of a president ial subpoena with trumps legal team. That gets your attention. They write, quote, in a tense meeting in early march with the special counsel, President Trumps lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk to federal investigators, probing russias interference in the 2016 president ial campaign. But special counsel Robert Mueller responded that he had another option if trump declined. He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury according to four people familiar with the encounter. Muellers warning, the first time he has known to mention a possible subpoena to trumps legal team. This isnt some game, dowd said, with two people with knowledge to his comments. You are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. In the wake of the testy march 5 meeting, muellers team agreed to provide the president s lawyers with more specific information about the subjects that pros