they re not very good, but he does have real lawyers back there. and they are smart enough, even they to understand that the law is not on their side. between u.s. v. nixon and the paula jones case, the judicial system s right to obtain evidence from a president, to put him under oath, to get information is on fairly solid ground. now, could he take an appeal to the supreme court and with his two appointees perhaps get a different ruling? perhaps. but he s not out of the woods yet. i disagree slightly with walter on one thing and that is trump may actually may have erevealed a good deal of the state of his mind through his tweets, through his actions and in those written questions. so trump has a way of telling us exactly what he s thinking and what he s doing and why. so it may be it s not as important as it may be with
an open question. jennifer, we heard earlier today on msnbc who was the solicitor-general who argued the case in terms of their efforts to avoid interviews with prosecutors and such, and here s what he said earlier to me tonight about the idea mueller may ultimately subpoena trump in 2019. what the special counsel wants to know about what donald trump s state of mind is, if he s considering perhaps even naming him an unindicted coconspirator, i think he could easily take an expedited case from the grand jury of the president up to the supreme court and they could hear that case. they could also hear a case involving the house s decision if it comes to that subpoena the mueller report. jennifer, do you think this is something that the white house is still worried would be on the table? i think so. listen, rudy is not the real lawyer. trump does have real lawyers.
that period, he was a campaign surrogate and so he s sort of cracked the door. whether he gets in trouble for it or whether mueller doesn t care about the 87th interview is an open question. jennifer, we heard earlier today on msnbc who was the solicit solicitor-general who argued the case in terms of their efforts to avoid interviews with prosecutors and such, and here s what he said earlier to me tonight about the idea mueller may ultimately subpoena trump in 2019. what the special counsel wants to know about what donald trump s state of mind is, if he s considering perhaps even naming him an unindicted coconspirator, i think he could easily take an expedited case from the grand jury of the president up to the supreme court and they could hear that case. they could also hear a case involving the house s decision
it was basically knocked down in the paula jones case by the united states supreme court where they permitted a civil action to go against bill clinton. the big difference here with president trump is that it s hard for him to say this is going to interfere, the fact that he s involved in a legal action is going to interfere he can t make that argument. yes, because he filed a lawsuit in federal district court in los angeles against a woman who he claims he never met. so when you re doing that, how can you claim that you can t be tied up in court, and besides, he spends so much time on the golf course, all they need to do is just schedule his trial in his golf course time and then let him act as president. what about introducing this legislation that could actually extend the statute of limitations? right. so jerry nadler, who s going to be the head of the judiciary committee which is the committee that would end up overseeing impeachment if it ever came to
well, obviously, a problem, because the stance and the original purpose of the whole scheme, so to speak, was that you had a desire by donald trump to keep stormy daniels quiet. now they tried to have it both ways. they tried to effectively enforce the terms of the nondisclosure agreement while, at the same time, denying that anything happened. a deposition was clearly going to reveal that both of those things could not be true. and it was clear that the game was up when we had michael cohen plead guilty to certain offenses and also say in the course of that plea that he was doing it with the guidance and the coordination of donald trump and he was doing it in order to influence the election. the whole game was really up at that point and there was nothing to be gained substan live and, quite a lot to lose by being deposed by being deposed, he would have splofed himself to a lot of different problems and of course his team very much remembers the paula jones case