president s outside legal team with a list of some 52 questions that mueller wants to ask the president if they do sit down together. so some cooperation there from the mueller side. handing over those questions. alan dershowitz, the noted constitutional attorney that had dinner at the white house with president trump, weighing in on this this morning saying he thinks the president should respond to the questions with some written answers but shouldn t get anywhere near the special counsel in person. listen here. i think he would be in a better position challenging this legally than sitting down with the special counsel and answering that list of 40 some odd questions that are so open-ended, so vague and so general. the president weighing in on this this morning writing there was no collusion, it s a hoax and there s no obstruction of justice. that is a setup and trap. the president goes on to talk about all the other things that are going on in the world, jon, that people should
et tu, jay? in march mueller s team agreed to provide the president s lawyers with more specific information about the subjects prosecutors wished to discuss with the preds. according to three sources, trump lawyer jay sekulow compiled a list of 49 questions that the team believed the president would be asked. so everything in the tweet the president put out yesterday, almost everything was incorrect. mainly that it would have been leaked from the mueller side. that it was a witch hunt. quite clearly these questions came from president trump s own legal team or someone very close to it. he needs to talk to his own lawyers. which something you could have said over the past six months. a couple of things are clearly apparent from the leak of these supposed questions. they re not really questions. they re topics. and 49 different topics, is that s going to be an extensive interview if he ever did indeed sit with bob mueller s team, which he probably won t. but one thing seems to be
second. couple quick questions. jonathan turley, obviously the news about bob mueller, saying, well, you know, fantastic. you can say what you want to say, but you ve got the power to pardon, but i have the power to subpoena. where do we go from here a little chilling, isn t it? if robert mueller decides to subpoena the president? not a good place from the perspective of the president. he can follow the rather checkered legacy of richard nixon and bill clinton. this did not work out well. the law is on mueller s side. i think the president will lose. i m surprised this is still being entertained. like the old joke, the guy jumping off the high-rise and saying so far so good as he passes floor by floor. it s not going to end well. and so if you re going to fight with the special counsel, he s likely to prevail. you ll have more extended litigation going through the midterms, but he does have the right to call you. but if he calls you before that
resist that request for an interview. also, you know, look, we don t know where they came from. it is suggestive that it seems like these are notes have a conversation that makes it more likely that it came from the trump side than the mueller side, but it s not dispositive. we do know this, the president s tweet is once again wrong. no questions on collusion. there are lots of questions on collusion. remember, collusion is not a crime. it s a suggestion of a type of activity. conspiracy would be a crime. there are lots of questions that go to those areas. thank you both very much. what potential legal trouble could the president face based on these questions? we know that robert mueller wants to ask all of those. those are fine print. we ll explain more and we have our legal experts here next. business. with dell small business technology advisors you get the one-on-one partnership you need to grow your business. the dell vostro 15 laptop. contact a dell advisor today.
the questions is somebody who is involved in the russia issue. in other words, there are no other people involved in any of the obstruction or any other issues. everybody is in there because of the possible russia connection. it s a great point you make because some of the critics here have said, oh, maybe they ve lost sight of that, and as you re pointing out we don t believe this to be a leak from the mueller side. they re all over it. in every single one of these questions involving another person whether it s don junior, jared kushner, paul manafort they re all people one way or another are involved in the question mueller has, the most important question he s looking at. was there any quadination between the russian government and the campaign. then there s the other piece i want to get you in on wra, ja there s tweets that go to it