an important point. they re going to control the process. the mandate to the special counsel only assumes that when they re done, they give a report to the attorney general or the acting attorney general, the deputy attorney general at that time whatever. who s overseeing the probe, but not to the american people. and if the president wants to put out a rebuttal, that s fine, but they d better not taking out any of the things in the mueller report. i think it s important, and a lot of folks are questioning the attorney general. the attorney general owes it to the president and any president to give him the opportunity to tell his side of the story at the same time when the reports come out, not one and then the other. and more important than the president is what he owes the american people. yeah. i agreed. and that s a full disclosure of what s in the report and the attorney general of the acting or whatever it should all come out. should not and cannot hold
welcome back. rudy guiliani telling cnn that president trump would consider any followup questions on possible russian collusion after the president s admitted written answers to the special counsel, robert mueller yesterday. guiliani cautioned that any questions about obstruction would likely go unanswered, arguing that the president is protected by executive privilege. alex, does this mean that the mueller probe is coming to an end without that long-discussed presidential sitdown interview? jim, on that question, the mueller side has been very quiet. and in reality, the ball is in their court. so what this round of written answers shows is that president trump is being accommodating for now, but that may be tested by what mueller decides to do next. after months of legal back and forth and tense negotiation, special counsel robert mueller has finally received president
in mueller probe tonight. reports about how guilty trump campaign aids rick gates is giving up information and trump lawyers busting out a new argument about why not only some collusion is okay but protect bid the instituticonstitution. gates is still talking to mueller to this day. he s visits his office numerous times for months. we didn t know that. these are intelligence meetings to get new leads and mueller, not known for going easy, it looks like he s happy with what he s getting from gates because we ll show you he sent to remove gate gps tracker and curfew as a reward for ongoing information. that s the mueller side. on the trump said, the campaign was forced to address the dnc lawsuit which has been making waves because democrats want to apply purchase that the trump
close to it on the mueller side. when are we going to see either a conclusion to the investigation or charges that have something to do with the russian collusion, not other matters. the manafort prosecutions, for example, nothing to do with the trump campaign, nothing to do with russian collusion. harris: what s interesting about what you re saying, i had forgotten, weren t there like five or six simultaneous investigations going on in all of this? mueller isn t the only thing in town but nothing seems to have yielded anything to carry us forward with really knowing much more about what might ve happened. we know russia meddled, the president s team says that happened. that s something that needs to be addressed, finally we have i think some bipartisan interest in that issue, meddling by russia in our political system has been occurring for most of our lifetimes, of course, now
cooperating on may 22nd. that also tells us that hey, the mueller investigation had an active cooperating witness working with them for more than the past three months and none of us had any idea about it. mueller side of this doesn t leak. if you were hoping to get juicy leaks out of the special counsel s office, nobody is getting it. otherwise we would have mattered sam patten was a cooperator and due to be charged someday. the prosecutors say that sam patten lied to and obstructed the senate intelligence committee. and the senate investigation of the scandal. we hadn t even knew that he teld testify. senators put out a statement that he did speak to the committee. there was something about the testimony to the committee