the strange trial of donald trump campaign manager just got stranger. at the same time robert mueller s investigation just took an unexpected turn. first in washington today, the woman known as the manhattan madame is due to appear before the grand jury. her name is kristen davis. she was once a staple of new york s gossip pages. what does she have to do with the 2016 election interference? stand by for that. prosecutors are expected to wrap up the case against paul manafort but not before more drama with the judge. this time involving a noise machine. we re covering both as they unfold. let s begin with paul manafort s trial. court just started and what are we talks about a white noise machine for? reporter: you know, i got to tell you, court started but it
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was back in january, a different sort of war footing now with giuliani and the president going after mueller. you giuliani defended the decision to sends the white house lawyer to the briefing today at the justice department. i can t understand why it s inappropriate for white house counsel to be there. maybe it would be for me or jay sekulow, but not the person representing the president inside the white house. that s a quote from giuliani. and has been pointed out many times today already, you have a lawyer representing the president s personal interests going to a meeting about which they re discussing interviewing the president in connection to the special counsel investigation, wolf. that is a problem. it s not a neutral meeting. the other problem is fair point. there s more breaking news we re following, guys. stick around. blue flames appear among the red and orange lava on hawaii. why they re sparking new fears of explosions.
before the president s team finally rejected the plan in a 20-page letter that was spent to the special counsel. so this possible date for an interview, wolf, has never been reported before. and had they done it, maybe the world would have been a little bit different. and if you ll recall at that time the president s attorneys were quite interested in getting this over with and moving quickly, which is why they considered this very seriously. but in the end, wolf, they decided and then the chief counsel for the president, john dowd, decided that it was just too much of a risk and that on constitutional grounds they felt the president was not required to do it. what do you think, jeffrey? five hours, camp david, a saturday back in january. that s what mueller wanted. didn t happen. right. and i think this is indicative of how everything about the trump presidency has become
grasp to try to justify his claim the fbi was spying on his camane. even going as far to twist james clapper s words about this. it doesn t surprise me rudy giuliani is saying this is something they re going to use. giuliani says they ve got to divulge this information about the confidential source, quote, unless they want to give up an interview with the president. and we ve seen rudy giuliani who is certainly the public face of the president s legal strategy here. he before said that because robert mueller apparently said that the president couldn t be indicted then there was no need for the president to sit down and there was no need for a subpoena either if the president couldn t be indicted. so i think we see this public jockeying back and forth with giuliani and mueller. mueller, of course, essentially silent on this. he s become a bit of a punching bag. a bit of a big shift from where john dowd was, the legal team