ramifications. i think. he ll make some arrangements that are more palatable to the president s real legal team, but mueller is going to want the answers. he s going to want him to talk. michael? giuliani was wrong again on a whole host of matters. first of all, i think as a legal proposition that past presidents who have tried to defy grand jury subpoenas have all lost. so i think this president well could be in that same situation. secondly, of course, in the bill clinton case where they did subpoena him and they ultimately negotiated an agreement, he testified for four hours in the map room with his lawyers present, and the transmission of that testimony went straight to the grand jury. as for hillary clinton, when she was under direction a the counsel s star, she was invited in the grand jury.
he is also in the lead in a lot of key early states. by this point giuliani was falling out of the lead in iowa and new hampshire. you could kind of see it falling apart. we are not seeing that with trump right now. how durable do you think he is? the iowa poll that you referenced, trump actually improved his numbers over october so from 20% being the top choice among caucus goers in october to 25%. that is after he made really disparaging comments against iowa caucus goers. he called them stupid basically on twitter for choices in candidates so far. the kind of statements he has made so far the divisive statements aren t affecting him. i don t think we have a template for this kind of candidate. i want to see how folks are showing up to his rallies are actually primary and caucus voters. how many of them are republicans and how many are just independents or other kind of sympathetic folks to the trump message who like being in the
first. i m curious of what you make of the trump thing. there has been some pushback saying the media is taking the poll numbers for trump too seriously. i m not sure i go along with it because he has been in the lead pretty much since he got in the race. he is in the lead in a lot of key early states. by this point giuliani was falling out of the lead. we are not seeing that with trump right now. how durable do you think he is? the iowa poll that you referenced, trump actually improved his numbers over october so from 20% being the top choice among caucus goers in october to 25%. that is after really disparaging comments. he called them stupid basically on twitter for choices in candidates so far. the kind of statements he has made so far the divisive statements aren t affecting him. i don t think we have a template for this kind of candidate.
it provides new insight to what we went wrong. good morning. welcome to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. one year ago today, robert mueller was appointed special counsel in the russia investigation. there are important issues marking the milestone. rudy giuliani said he did not indict a sitting president. rudy giuliani said all they can do is write a report. they acknowledge that to us after battling with us. it is a point giuliani reiterated on fox. we will see what legal rem y remedies are available to us. including if they subpoena us, challenge the subpoena. i don t think they agree to the process question. the same reason they cannot indict him, they cannot issue a subpoena to him. clinton opposed a subpoena and voluntarily complied. if mueller s team said if the
campaign contribution because it would have been done, anyway. this is the kind of thing i ve settled for celebrities and famous people. every lawyer who does that kind of work has. number two, even if it was considered a campaign contribution, it was entirely reimbursed out of personal funds, which i don t think we ll even get to because the first one is enough. case closed for donald trump. and i think for michael cohen who i think got a big boost with judge ellis comments the other day. the other day you also told buzzfeed, though, at some point after the 2016 election, michael cohen explained to some people he hadn t been paid by donald trump. then you said cohen met with trump and told him, and giuliani said we ll cover your expenses. they work out this $35,000 a month retainer after that. so the president did know about this after the campaign. can t say that. at some point yes, but it could have been recently, it could have been a while back. those are the facts we re still