president s legal team is preparing a report designed to discredit mueller s conclusions in the russia investigation. the final preparations come a day after the original deadline trump attorney, rudy giuliani set for mueller, but decided to extend. you said there should be a september 1st deadline for mr. mueller to finish whatever he finishes. what happens if he doesn t? it s his problem. september 7th would be the date. the justice department has a rule to stay out of politically charged investigations within 60 days of the election. i hope he respects that. or what? nothing. otherwise, it affects how people look at the legitimacy of the investigation. is it political or a law enforcement investigation? joining me now is ashley. good to see you. you heard trump s personal lawyer say the justice depment has a rule law enforcement
reporter: you ve said there should be a september 1st deadline for mr. mueller to finish whatever he s going to finish. what happens if he doesn t? that s his problem. it s really september 7th, would be the date. the justice department has a rule that you should stay out of politically charged investigations within 60 days of the election. i hope he respects that. reporter: or what? or nothing. otherwise it just affects how people look at the legitimacy of his investigation. is it political or is it a real law enforcement investigation? doj rule giuliani is referencing is a 2012 memo saying law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never select the timing of investigative steps or criminal charges for the purpose of affecting any election. the memo doesn t include any dates or windows of time. so far there is no indication the mueller investigation is nearing its end.
september 1st, one of the dead looirns, rudy giuliani gave special mueller to end the investigation. let s play for you a little bit of what giuliani told my colleague yesterday. you ve said there s should be a september 1st deadline for mr. mueller to finish whatever he is to finish. what if he doesn t? rel september 7th would be the date. the justice department has a rule that you should stay out of politically charged investigations within 60 days of the election. i hope he respects that. or what? well, nothing. i mean, otherwise it just affects how people look at the legit ma legitimacy of his investigation. how does the trump team justify these attempts to discredit the nvinvestigation while this happens. you saw the poll showing a number of americans do agree
president would not sit down for an interview with robert mueller after september 1st, that is tomorrow. earlier this month he told bloomberg news that, quote, if mueller doesn t get it done in the next two or three weeks, we will just unload on him like a ton of bricks. giuliani seemed to back down on that threat, though, today. reporter: you ve said there should be a september 1st deadline for mr. mueller to finish whatever he s going to finish. what happens if he doesn t? that s his problem. it s really september 7th, would be the date. the justice department has a rule that you should stay out of politically charged investigations within 60 days of the election. i hope he respects that. reporter: or what? or nothing. otherwise it just affects how people look at the legitimacy of his investigation. is it political or is it a real law enforcement investigation? the doj rule giuliani is referencing is a 2012 memo saying law enforcement officers and prosecutors may never sele
occurs to me, john mccain is about to be laid to rest and bob mueller served himself in vietnam. will that play into this his thg at all. kasie, very astute. robert mueller, having served, very wired into washington, and i agree with you. he might well be sensitive to that. it s just another reason i have news for rudy, that that september 1st deadline is not going to be met. remember when the deadline was last thanksgiving for this investigation? the lawyers who touch and feel it are involved every day see no sense that this is eminent. they think this is going a while. mike, jonathan lemire. two quick questions. one, roger stone, someone linked to wikileaks, publicly said he anticipates an indictment or