that are still in their infancy. both white house lawyer ty cobb and the president s attorney jay sekulow declined to comment for this story but it is significant in that all of this is entering this new phase with the initial steps of preparation. in the past, the president has seemed receptive to sitting for an interview. do we know if that s still the case? reporter: sources tell us that the president shows more enthusiasm outwardly than behind closed doors at this prospect of sitting down with mueller, saying publicly as you know he has said he would love to do the interview under oath. but privately, trump has been more equivocal about answering mueller s questions, depending on the day, and trump has wavered as friends and advisers have cautioned him of the risk of speaking to prosecutors who have already charged 19 individuals with criminal offenses, including lying. multiple aides to the president continue to describe him as obsessed with the russia probe, becoming increasi
were to puff himself up, to make himself seem more important to others perhaps in the campaign or around him. it s very easy to look as some of the things he said as suspicion. you can also look at them as just kind of bragging and made up. right. well, as we show in our film, although roger has certainly had a pivotal role in historic events of extraordinary consequence, he s also lied about his role and historic events. that s part of his m.o. here. i thought it was really interesting when he said to you about his willingness to appear before the special counsel depends upon the scope of the interview. you know, roger, as we show in our movie, has been by trump s side for three decades and was once his washington lobbyist. i think that roger would be much more reticent to talk about his knowledge of trump s business dealings than he is about the russian collusion investigation. they go back that long that he would know a lot about trump s business dealings? he s literally the f
he s literally the first person to put the idea in trump s mind to run for the presidency way back in 1987, and he s been representing trump as his lobbyist, his political strategist, since the mid- 80s. carrie, the president s supporters say this investigation by mueller has just gone on too long, keep saying, look, we haven t seen anything come out of it. it s been going on for more than a year. it s an argument i don t quite understand because generally you wouldn t see anything come out of an investigation until the investigation reaches its conclusion, and obviously we have seen indictments on russians and obviously the actions against paul manafort and others. given the scope of this investigation, i think it s moving quickly. i mean they ve already launched guilty pleas against several individuals affiliated with the campaign. they have a big pending indictment against the campaign chairman, paul manafort. they have a huge indictment against russian nationals and russian e
things he has said in the past were to puff himself up, to make himself seem more important to others perhaps in the campaign or around him. it s very easy to look as some of the things he said as suspicion. you can also look at them as just kind of bragging and made up. right. well, as we show in our film, although roger has certainly had a pivotal role in historic events of extraordinary consequence, he s also lied about his role and historic events. that s part of his m.o. here. i thought it was really interesting when he said to you about his willingness to appear before the special counsel depends upon the scope of the interview. you know, roger, as we show in our movie, has been by trump s side for three decades and was once his washington lobbyist. i think that roger would be much more reticent to talk about his knowledge of trump s business dealings than he is about the russian collusion investigation. they go back that long that he would know a lot about trump s business d
in terms of assange, he had spoken to us in july and august, 2018, about his desire to meet with julian assange and for us to film it. one of the striking things about this is why he wouldn t have wanted us to be there if he did meet with assange. it would have puffed up his role in the campaign and was consistent with our discussions with him. carrie, just in terms of if robert mueller has been asking questions about him to sam nunberg, to others, is it, should it be a concern to roger stone that he hasn t been asked to come in and talk to mueller? well, i continue to be amazed at the number of individuals affiliated with the trump campaign in some way who, even if they haven t been subpoenaed or asked to be interviewed yet, know that they are in some way being implicated in the investigation, being looked at in the investigation. they have some indication that perhaps some of their records