questions at all from mueller which he acknowledged doing this week. whatever the reason the president is turning up the temperature on the special counsel, just as the prospect of a government shutdown gets linked to over whether we want to protect mueller from the president. what is your answer to the special counsel? we do it next week. they are all done. president trump revealing after nearly a year of negotiations, he has answered written questions from robert mueller. i wrote the answers. my answers don t write answers. i write answers. mr. trump accused prosecutors of setting a perjury trap. i m sure they re tricked up because they let to catch people, was the weather sunny or was it rainy, and instead it may have been a good day, it was rainy, therefore he told a lie, he perjured himself. on thursday, the president tweeted without evidence the mueller s team is screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them, to come up with the answers they want. yo
so, look, john kelly was supposed to be the guy that rights the ship, the guy that brings in order and discipline. unfortunately he failed. i m not certain that anyone that comes into the administration after he is gone will be able to do what he would like for an individual to do, which is to run the white house the way he thinks it should be won. my last question to you is just about the prospect of this perjury trap. we heard about it again from the president in the oval office. in light of what he just said, we have this body of interviews that the president has given. are we assigning too much importance to this sit-down interview? yeah, we are, absolutely. it doesn t make any difference at this point. you also have that sit-down interview with mcgahn. he laid out everything that trump was saying during that whole period of time when he came into office and up to the point that mcgahn left. what more do you need? he s a more reliable witness than donald trump. donald trump wil
serious sprawling investigation and trump understands that. and with the new acting attorney general, trump now has a spy for the first time that is looking at what mueller has. and he has been, trump, throughout his presidency, absolutely in a crazed state because he doesn t know what mueller is doing. now he has a sense of what may be going on, and we may be seeing that in this rageaholic behavior. they wrote about the inner workings of the mueller campaign, we don t know what matt whittaker has been telling him. it it is something he likes to refer to as a perjury trap, that is not something they taught you
to manufacture alleged criminal behavior. a perjury trap you re saying if he said, i knew i didn t know about that meeting in trump tower and it turnds o turns out he did, is that a lie or a perjury trap? it depends on whether it s true or not. it would subject the president to a possibility of a trial and remember the president is subject to the criminal law at least once he leaves office. and to subject himself to the possibility of a trial would be not in the public s interest or certainly not in the president s interest. but if i m just trying to understand. if they re asking a question, did you know about that, and then the written answer, he says, yes, i did, let s just say he did, right? obviously, before he said he didn t. that s a significant lie. that would be fair game, right? it would be. and that s why intelligent defense lawyers do not subject
circus atmosphere, and it s a big mistake. why do you think he s insisting on doing it, then? why is he insisting on writing his own? the question would be whether he did. so he may be saying it but it s not really he may be trying to show macho, but i can t imagine that giuliani wouldn t have gone over the answers to make sure that they re accurate or not. and i m not sure that the president is telling the absolute truth when he says that he wrote these answers out himself. so, if he s not telling the absolute truth there, we know he has a tenuous relationship with the truth in many ways on statements he says separate from this investigation, just in general life when he comes out and says things. why do you call it a perjury trap? maybe it s just there s a lot of lies. well, first a perjury trap, to the viewers, it s the role of a prosecutor to prosecute past an existing criminal behavior. it s not the job of a prosecutor