the law firm founded by mark kasowitz who is president trump s personal lawyer. have you had any conversation about robert mueller or his investigation with anyone at that firm? yes or no? well, is there a person you re talking about i m asking you a very direct question. yes or no. i need to know i m not sure i know everyone at that person at that law firm. who did you talk to? i m not remembering. but i m happy to be refreshed or sir, are your saying that with all that you remember, you have an impeccable memory. you ve been speaking for eight hours about all sorts of things you remember. how can you not remember whether or not you had a conversation about robert mueller or his
against robert mueller being able to compel the president to testify. got to say, i find it hard to believe, though, that john roberts, a man who believes his duty, his responsibility is to protect the institution of the supreme court would yield so much power to the executive branch and you wouldn t have john roberts and perhaps one other republican appointed judge compel the president to testify under oath when a subpoena is delivered to him. well, joe, i don t want to scandalize your knowledge of washington, but i think the mueller part of these hearings and i was down there for a couple of days has more politics than the law. the roe v wade conversation has more law than politics in that what this hearing has unearthed is that you have someone who is giving private, very pro life advice to a pro life administration which underscores
but peace and prosperity. he tries to do that. they can t impeach me things are going too well. it s in there. so counter to who he is. if he today just looked at the camera and said look i don t want to talk about it any more. when it comes out we ll deal with it. obviously they are doing what they are doing. i m running the country. i m making sure you have a job. i m making sure isis never attacks us. i m the president. i m acting like a president. he s incapable of we know that. two things he said that isis was on the run. we finished the job. that would give some credit to obama. if the economy is better that gives credit to president obama. to not talk about the russian interference question and the collusion question he believes that calls into question his very presidency. any conversation about russia he thinks undermines his legitimacy and makes people think maybe he shouldn t be president. he can t allow that. he can stay away from it.
inappropriate conversation with somebody in the president s firm. lawyers are very, very careful about their contacts with judges, and vice versa. judges are extraordinarily circumspect and they are equally careful in talking to lawyers and in my questions to him yesterday he acknowledged knowing only one lawyer at that firm ed mcnally, but equally important he was ambiguous in stating whether he discussed the special counsel with anyone in the white house. and i asked him specifically about his potential conversations on the special counsel. he said i never had an inappropriate conversation, but he wouldn t be more specific about what he has discussed on the special counsel. likewise, he evaded questions about whether he would pardon the president. he refused to say he would
conversation that occurred regarding special counsel mueller s investigation and a simple yes or no is suffice. about his investigation, are you referring to a specific person? i m referring to a specific subject and the specific person i m referring to is you. no, who was the conversation with? you said you had information. that is not the subject of the question, sir. okay. the subject is you and whether you were part of a conversation regarding special counsel mueller s investigation. the answer is no. thank you. it would have been great if could you have said that last night. kavanaugh finally acknowledged knowing kasowitz attorney from their time together in the bush administration but denied he had any contact with the firm regarding the mueller probe or prep for his confirmation hearing. that was really strange. how does he not know? suspicious.