the rich people don t worry about going to jail, he is more worried about voters than suppo support. and so right now, he is trying to make sure that whatever mueller finds out, and whatever comes out of this investigation, and whether he testifies or not is discredited immediately from the media, because it is coming out of the media. and one of the takeaways here is that the issue, at least the lawyers in the memo alluding to the president admitting that he dictated some text to his son don jr., and that is all regarding the trump tower meeting. yeah. no, there is a lot of oinformation that oinfocoming out on a saturday afternoon, and that is one of the pieces of information that he dictated the content of what came out in the statement that don jr. wrote. but, look, going back to the memo here, and what a brash interpretation of the law that tru trump s attorneys have put forward here insinuating that he should not be forced to testify because essentially he could terminate the
mueller wants to speak with the president before he wraps up the investigation. but the lawyers, and there s part of that letter. president s lawyers fear if he answers questions, the president risks exposing himself to accusations of lying to investigators, which would be perjury, and that is a potential crime and frankly an impeachable offense. geoff, earlier in the day, the precursors to this, was the president alluding to the department of justice, could be leaking his lawyers letters? that s right. we know the new york times reached out to rudy giuliani who is the president s newest attorney for comment, giuliani, we can assume tipped off of the president and that s what led to the tweet where he characterizes the witch hunt, which we should say the special counsel team has racked up multiple indictments. nbc s jegeoff bennet.
president s lawyers would fight tooth and nail. this is sort of the key dick cheney argument when he was vipe. he pushed hard for an expansive view of executive power. this isn t just going to be an issue of whether or not he sits down with an interview. what kind of power presidents. i think a pro tract the legal fight would be likely. always great to have you. appreciate your time. stick around. we ll see you later. coming up, dig deeper into the politics of this very memo that we re talking about and the president s public efforts to undermine the mueller investigation. clooer .
frightened of. because there is no reason the president of the united states should fear giving truthful testimony in front of a grand jury if he is ultimately subpoenaed. the fact he refuses to do that is very dangerous for this country. they say they are being open and key operative in the to. the footnote that the new york times puts in is that hoping they will be able to avoid the investigation into the financial intertwinings of this president. aren t we past that? we are. let s not forget the memo was written in january. i m curious here on a saturday evening, what is rudy giuliani going to say to your colleague chuck todd tomorrow on meet the press that s going to blow this thing up. what is he going to say. i don t know. but we will talk it at great length and it will almost put this story as a back burner to whatever he says tomorrow. you will be watching in earnest tomorrow, won t you susan. watch meet the press. that s a great plug. do not miss that on your n
that s an example of the team policing itself. conflict and scandal free. reality is that the president and his lawyers have been working overtime ever since mueller was named special council to find ways to dis credit this investigation just because of the fact they re deeply concerned about the ultimatum pact this could have on the presidency. . one of the things my father would always say was that s like water off the duck. when this 20 dash page memo hit the mueller team, was that like water off the duck? i would imagine they sat around, made copies, got the coffee out and started reading through it and heads started shaking. again, i d assert they probably concluded this is the best they can come up with, we re okay. this may be well headed to the supreme court. this notion that you can t subpoena a sitting president, the sitting president can t commit a crime or can t obstruct justice, we may be headed to the supreme court, but i m pretty