letter, now we see that they acknowledge he did dictate donald trump jr. s response. that is what rudy giuliani keeps saying. let s listen to the president s lawyer, jay sekulow here, denying that the president dictated this letter. listen to this. that was written by donald trump jr. and i m sure in consultation with his lawyer. that wasn t written by the president. the president didn t sign off on anything, was not involved in the drafting of the statement. he weighed in and offered suggestion like any father would do. it doesn t sound like a changed recollection. that sounds like a lie. either jay sekulow or sarah is lying, or it s possible that the president flatout lied to them. that very well could have happened too but there were several people from our understanding anyway that were around in that circle, so the
have the white house and even the president s lawyer lie, publicly, blatantly lie? well listen, i never think lying is a good idea. i think what the legal team is trying to do is put out the best case they can up front. again, if lying were a crime, there wouldn t be, i don t think, three people left in the united states. in this 20-page letter the president s lawyers in january admitted that the president dictated donald trump jr. s response to the trump tower meeting where he was promised dirt an hillary clinton. jay sekulow, the president s lawyer, repeatedly and publicly said the opposite for like a month last year. sarah sanders flatout said he certainly did not dictate the letter. now we know the president certainly did dictate the letter. so either the president lied to them or they lied to us. there s really no option c here, correct? i think that s correct. if i were betting i think the president probably would say, hey, my recollection on if i did
jr. statement before sarah sands, sekulow, everybody was saying he had nothing to do with it. here they are in a legal letter ng that not true, trump dictated that letter. how is that going to confront them? in many ways. i think it was a concession made because mueller knew it anyway. i don t think they made that concession because they wanted to, but because they had no choice. i would view that statement as leading to and raising a whole host of other questions heoes not want to answer right now. he made that concession in a letter in which he is essentially saying he doesn t want to answer further questions. he doesn t believe a further interview is warranted but that concession cries out for follow up questions. if he was involved in drafting a fallacious press statement about don jr. s meeting with emissaries of the kremlin in june of 2016, the natural follow-up question that any prosecutor would ask is when did
what do you make of this? i actually thought it was revealing and an interesting one that he threw sekulow under the bus. he said this is all about public opinion. if donald trump tries to pardon himself then he will get impeached. if he tries to fire mueller or stop the investigation then he will get impeached. so i think it s very clear what they re doing is they re allowing the president to spout off on twitter. giuliani will come in here and say one thing and he ll probably change his mind and say something else to other news organizations later today or tomorrow. they re trying to confuse things. we have two strategies, one is to discredit everyone involved and two, confuse things so much that the public doesn t know where up is or where down is so when the report ultimately comes out they have an ability to push back and say this was all a big witch hunt. no one really gets it. republican voters, look what we re doing, ignore all of this. we re making a deal with north korea, w
a potential interview. and this special counsel suggested a date, saturday, january 27th. an interview that would last anywhere between four and five hours. we were told. and the president s team just kind of sat there and took it all in and then when they got back together they were actually to the point where they were thinking where can we have this interview? maybe camp david to keep it kind of private. eventually, though, january 29th, two days after the interview to take place, john dowd wrote them a 20-page letter saying absolutely not. this is the attorney before rudy giuliani came into this scene. right, exactly. different set of attorneys for call practical purposes. no. sekulow was an attorney then but the point was to come up with a date, seriously talking about an interview and then it all fell