as the investigation itself, clearly according to guliani it s contingent on them getting access to the president and having an interview with him and that s something that they ve been seeking. so there could be a win-win for both sides but certainly very interesting that they are willing to say we could get this all done by september if you give us time with the president. rick: it sounds like they will get time with the president based on what rudy guliani is saying, although he is on record cautioning against mr. trump speaking with mueller unless and until they know more about this mole that we ve been talking about, suggesting that the president might be walking into a trap. what do you think about that? sure, guliani has certainly set conditions of his own for giving the investigators access to president trump. but i agree with you, that it s sort of a bit of a departure from the words that we ve heard from him so far, suggesting now that it seems more likely that he will si
well. in the first instance i would say he shouldn t be doing it. rick: as we ve seen, robert, these kinds of investigations and these kinds of interviews can often veer drastically off topic. bob mueller could start by asking him about russia and could wind up asking him about any number of things potentially, right? yeah, he could ask about stormy daniels, about payments by cohen, he could ask about lots of different things. i think the president which is a good political skill has a way of cutting to the chase, cutting to the end game first but that s difficult in an interview situation with a prosecutor where you have precise questions, you have to give narrow answers to. rick: once he agreed to the interview, can he then not answer certain questions? it s a voluntary interview so obviously his lawyers and presuming that guliani will be by his side can interrupt or consult with him during the interview and presumably they worked out ground rules in advance that these are th
but assuming it does go ahead, there s a lot of preparation that s required to go to that. that will be a historic meeting the north korean leader and the president, if he does have a sit-down with robert mueller s team would absolutely need to prepare for that. there s a lot of things that he would have to go through with his counsel and so that makes sense really that guliani has said this was something that would happen maybe around july 4th to make sure that it s after that summit and gives the appropriate time and enough time for the president and his advice re advisors to prepar. rick: one of the arguments we ve heard is this could be a breach of the campaign s private communications, that s what rudy guliani is suggesting. and again, if that s indeed what happened, i m sure those are questions that they will ask and i can t address that myself, not having any intel into what happened there but i m sure that s something that the president s team will be pushing for informat
depending on one s point of view. to me, that s a fairly it s odd that the president made the request but it s not that the i.g. would look into something at doj. rick: if the president is watching and he often does, what would be your final thoughts to him about this particular matter, this possible interview with robert mueller? i would just say listen to your lawyers, your instincts are great on lots of things but this is something where you listen to the experienced people. if you have trust in rudy guliani, listen to him. and really take his lawyer s advice to heart, they have your best interest, mr. president. rick: thank you for your time tonight. thank you. rick: and the free legal advice for the president who may see the end of this russia investigation which he s been calling for by september 1st, if everything else goes according to plan. thank you again. thank you. rick: now to another top story this hour. steve mnuchin saying the u.s. will now hold off on c
roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we re good. we re good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them out. terminix. defenders of home. rick: i m rick lee then tall. you re watching the fox report. returning to the top story,