you and i would with take if we had to sit for a deposition, you commit perjury. and because it s open season in terms of the discovery and the deposition questioning, when donald trump was asking questions to the robert mueller team, thaw were written questions. there wasn t anything that hadn t been reviewed kaurfully. this is different. he s in a deposition setting. you re not going to be able to reign him un. who s going to be able to say what he wants to say. suppose he says i m not going to listen to a lawyer. i m president of the united states. i m not going to go to a perjury trap. make me. you come get me. 1600 pennsylvania. you send the cops to get me. try it.
that s just done every day. harris: what to think what sitting down with new investigation under oath? chairman schiff says that to a weakness to the truth. what about the other answers are given writing? it s a casting doubt completely on that? he doesn t even have a basis for casting doubt. no reasonable lawyer would ever allow the president to sit down. president clinton did that come and he paid a very heavy price doing that. i think it was the right decision made by trump s lawyers, to answer questions. and not to allow the client to fall into a perjury trap. remember, a perjury trap can result from truthful testimony. if the president gave absolutely truthful testimony and michael cohen contradicted him, and the prosecutors decided to believe michael cohen, that would be a perjury trap. so i see no reason for the president to sit down to have a live testimony. he s not going to do it. that was made clear right from
people like to make fun of democrats if you re on the republican side. don t make fun of jerry nadler. he is smart and knows what he is doing. i think he is trying to get entrap some people in perjury. anybody who testified before like myself truthfully three times under oath. i testified beginning two years ago. maybe i misremember a date, color or smell and i m on a perjury charge. if he gets somebody on a perjury trap like that they get them to flip and say something negative about the president. like michael cohen is doing. jerry nadler is trying to put together and assembly and trying to create another michael cohen so they can impeach the president. that is what this is all about. a perjury trap leading to impeachment and i m not going to play. bill: doesn t look like the president will play, either. adam schiff made an appearance making a case that mueller can t put out a report unless he gets the president under oath. i think it is a mistake.
the beginning. so this is just a political tactic to point out the president won t sit down and have life testimony. the president himself wanted to do it. but his lawyers very wisely said, no way, we will let you walk into a perjury trap at the way that clinton s lawyers allowed him to be want to do perjury trap. harris: he also sued because it puts the bed with her he would talk tell the truth on the record. he wants to prove he could do that this is anybody s client would want to do that. before i let you go, what is important about what we saw in public? because we don t know what michael cohen said privately. at least we don t know yet. we have seen i think it s very important is michael cohen exculpated the president. basically he said, look, the present give me a personal check to repay stormy daniels. that means it was the president s contribution. the president, of course, he s allowed to contribute as much as he wants to to a campaign. to was exculpatory. the other
it seems he will present what he had and not wait. he s not setting a perjury trap trap? i don t think so. your lawyers make sure you don t commit perjury. unless your client wasn t honest. if the client wasn t honest to the lawyer, the lawyers don t know how to draft the correct answer. i think at the point you re about to make is if there s other evidence from let s say three or four people contradicting something the president stated, even if the lawyers crafted the statements, the lawyers only know what the clients and the information they have. they don t know what every one else is saying. thank you so much. coming up, donald trump named co-champion of his golf s club tournament which is so strange considering he didn t play in the tournament. giving himself awards and accolades for stuff he didn t do.