interview your chief of staff. let me start with you. the president has every right, whatever your politicses, to have a small group of people. how do you make the case as a prosecutor that i have the right to this information? they have the right to deliver to process privilege. if the communications are about policy matters that the chief of staff is providing, the president, that s the base for the executive privilege. if it s not that, it s not easily established. evan said something interesting. they resisted the testimony, but said we will give it to you if you can establish the two standards that it is necessary and you can get it from nobody else. apparently mueller satisfied that because they made kelly available. if mueller is able to meet that standard, one has to wonder why can t he make it if he hasn t
with ukraine and russia. my colleague spoke today and said and we wanted that manafort was in contact with the president s lawyers and he told dana that in the days before, mueller s team believed he was lying on issues relating to the president as it pertained to the trump tower meeting and the president s knowledge of it. manafort denied that his son don, jr. was meeting with russians at trump tower. according to rudy juliany, that is snag mueller s team made clear. the question is, will that be in the court filings today. we know there were a lot of redactions that led to more questions than answers. we will see if we will gain a better understanding of the russia investigation and what he was lying about.
already as to anybody else he wants to interview. does that mean that down the line the president resists a subpoena for testimony and espy has been met and they get to ta uk to the president. espy a case of previous precedent in this matter. we are waiting to see key documents about paul manafort. the question there is, robert mueller said this guy got a plea deal and he lied to us. he said we know you are lying and he continued to lie. we don t know the lies about the pre-trump manafort world for lobbying and hiding know moy and the like or is it in trump land when he is chairman of the campaign. we don t know the answer to that. that are is the key question here, his lies according to mueller s team. having to do with the president and the trump campaign and any dealings with russia ordealings