the trump legal team in terms of the defense of donald trump to have gone with kelly to be able to go to the any of these meetings. we re hearing that they only came at the beginning for a few minutes. and yet why unless they re trying to intimidate people into this information. so giuliani said, katie, if the spying was inappropriate that means we may have an entirely illegitimate investigation. is there credence to that legally speaking? or is he pulling something from the trump playbook and trying to put that out there. to offer that concern. so that s the irritating component of the giuliani comments that are made willy nilly out into the public. and it troubles me because he is a lawyer ostensibly. so as a lawyer you do have an obligation to make sure that what you say is basically right and do you have an obligation to make sure that you re careful about extra judicial statements made by you, especially when you re representing a party so when giuliani makes these statements,
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frequently to local police escorts or local deny liplomati staff. position they a also they are the saisame heighe coin, but that is also not accurate. but you almost never see them i think i have a couple somewhere, but this is not a diplomatic statement. so let s get back to the substance. just a few headlines that have come out, the president expects good news on trade with south korea, he thinks kim jung-un is serious about denuclearization, says they will move forward with the summit. this meeting happens, south koreans are a bit nervous. they see john bolton and the clip we played from the vice president and they see evidence that in their view that conservatives, skrept skieptics trying to poison the well.
reinforce your case, give awe little bit of insurance. the statements from ty are really chilling. you know he s a very good lawyer. and this is, he s saying what many of us assume. which is that this was a leak for people who wanted to poison the well. people who didn t want him to sit down. that s an extraordinary statement about a legal team that s still divided. but i think that what you see with ty cobb s departure is that the president has decided to go with the worst-case scenario. he s basically decided look, what if i just go ahead and confront mueller, attack him in the media. don t cooperate? let s go straight to that option. there s certain clarity in that. there may even be some cathartic benefits in that. but it could also be catastrophic. even though you re walking away from cooperation, you re leaving all of these people. like cohen, like stone. who are still in the system. and they re going to be very
constitutional law attorney and law professor at george washington university. good evening to you. when these questions started pouring out, we all poured through them to try to figure out what they tell us about the direction of this investigation. what was your overall take away with the tenor of these questions and what he s going for? first of all, the release of these questions was a very aggressive act and its most likely someone who doesn t want the interview to occur. if you don t poison the well that you intend to drink from. that s what this was an effort to do, to show that the questions were brought to possibly justify a refusal by the president to sit down with mueller. otherwise, most of the questions, i would say 90%, or highly predictable. if you were to sit down and write out the questions about three months after mueller was appointed, most of these questions would be those questions. there are some that do cross that redline that ed henry was