without the president coming to her aide or giuliani coming to her aid. that s everyone who works in this administration. and choose to do it on a daily basis. no one is forcing them to do those jobs. we re hearing all this from giuliani. he says he couldn t be yet nothing from john mcgahn, nothing from emmitt flood, nothing from sekulow. is it that rudy s the new face guy and those guys are doing the work? i think this was, you know, concocted by the president and rudy giuliani sitting together and making a decision to go out and let him make this statement. i think it was a disaster. i mean this whole idea, stephanie, that they were that this payment was made in order to deal with personal problems, family problems, because if it got melania
a first-year prosecutor would do better than that. jill wine-banks your reaction to that? i think the list of questions he s referring to was drafted by sekulow, as i read it, that the special prosecutor gave some subjects that they wanted to talk about and that sekulow produced a list of questions and that list is a very thorough list, as far as it goes, it s a good start. it s not complete, in my view. but it is a very good start and it is a list that any defense lawyer would say, if i m preparing you to be questioned, these are questions that you re likely to be asked. and that s an important thing to keep in mind. so that s just it s juvenile to be attacking the level of competence of what we know to be a very skilled team of lawyers in the prosecutor s office. and we ve seen how unskilled the president s defense team has
characterization. this has become a witch hunt, like the president said. if you look at those questions that are being asked, they re trap questions. a first-year prosecutor would do better than that. jill wine-banks your reaction to that? i think the list of questions he s referring to was drafted by sekulow, as i read it, that the special prosecutor gave some subjects that they wanted to talk about and that sekulow produced a list of questions and that list is a very thorough list, as far as it goes, it s a good start. it s not complete, in my view. but it is a very good start and it is a list that any defense lawyer would say, if i m preparing you to be questioned, these are questions that you re likely to be asked. and that s an important thing to keep in mind. so that s just it s juvenile to be attacking the level of
as it relates to donald trump, but the obstruction piece, which is something he did allegedly or potentially, post-election, the firing of jim comey, having nothing to do with the 2016 election, could be the thing that trips him up, because it certainly seems like we know from cnn s reporting about sort of the questions that have been asked of witnesses in front of the mueller probe do seem to folks a lot of times around, the circumstances around comey s firing. so it may well be no collusion and it still doesn t mean that donald trump is entirely out of the woods. so i mentioned this, molly, in the last segment, but i didn t read the quote. this is another detail from the post about the president s attorneys. and it says, sekulow and cobb gave the president the opposite advice as dowd, that it would be politically difficult for trump to refuse to answer questions after insisting for months there was no collusion or crime, according to three people familiar with the advice. so, mol
folks a lot of times around, the circumstances around comey s firing. so it may well be no collusion and it still doesn t mean that donald trump is entirely out of the woods. so i mentioned this, molly, in the last segment, but i didn t read the quote. this is another detail from the post about the president s attorneys. and it says, sekulow and cobb gave the president the opposite advice as dowd, that it would be politically difficult for trump to refuse to answer questions after insisting for months there was no collusion or crime, according to three people familiar with the advice. so, molly, what do you think politically, would it be difficult for trump to refuse to answer questions? i think it depends on the circumstances. i mean, i always wish that my answer to all of these questions could just be, i have no idea, right? because there s so much we don t know about this investigation. and i know you want me to say more words than that, so i will. just say what you want.