the soviet empire. and former whitewater counsel, sal. sal what did you take away from that interview with rudy? well, i look at everything like this as an interview as the performance level and the substantive level. at the performance level, he did a very good job. this is what he should have done from the beginning. he was much more polished, he knew more. that was good. many statements were incorrect and some were preposterous and some were arguments and opinions. there is no way that the person under investigation or his attorney getson to say it s beea year, that s too much. but again, in terms of performance, i thought he did pretty well. laura: let s play the first sound byte from this interview with the question whether thees
lying.g. yet, the screws were put on to michael flynn and he eventually pled guilty. it moved forward. so you can imagine the screws being put potentially to a lot of these other staffers who have done interviews. i think the politics of this is interesting. i can see the comfort that president trump has and rudy ruy being a fighter for him. michael horowitz may have a lot of details that have yet to be revealed. laura: your book, three days over moscow, the president, president regan, he goes to moscow in 1988. he gives a speech. think about korea, whether the summit will happen or not happen, i wonder if there will be a day, it would be great, if we could have president trump go
president himself can be indicted. reason they can t indict him, they can t issue a subpoena to him. clinton opposed the subpoena. his administration said they m can t do that. laura: brett, it s interesting, the judgege made a point earlier today. he said when mueller said we are not going to indict the president because we are going to stand by this justice department advisory opinion that you can t indict a sitting president. this was in 1999 advisory opinion, it wasn t binding. so if mueller wanted to change his approach on that he could, which i found interesting. i thought that was a fascinating part of the interview. rudy is hanging on to that, that the team may have told him that about the indictment and staying