i want this president, under oath, asked why he took these steps to obstruct justice. i think the evidence is clear that he did, but i still think he ought to have the chance to answer those questions. the only reason that might not happen is i don t think either side wants a lengthy subpoena battle. right. and the president s lawyers would say you re not going to get them because of privilege issues. these are privileged conversations. if mueller disagreed, they would have to go to a subpoena fight. this is where mr. whitaker comes in. before you could get a subpoena, you would have to go to rod rosenstein, and now matt whitaker. that would be decided by the court. but you have to get permission. you have to get approval. if whitaker or rosenstein said no, they couldn t do it. again, we talked about it off camera, the woodward book talked about ty cobb seeing mueller and saying hey, look, i dare you, i double dog dare you, drop the
obstruction of justice. i would want it fill filmed by the american people. i want this president, under oath, asked why he took these steps to obstruct justice. i think the evidence is clear that he did, but i still think he ought to have the chance to answer those questions. the only reason that might not happen is i don t think either side wants a lengthy subpoena battle. the president s lawyers would say you re not going to give them because of privilege issues. if mueller disagreed, they would have to go to a subpoena fight. this is where mr. whitaker comes in. before you could get a subpoena, you would to go to rod rosenstein, and now matt whitaker. that would be decided by the court. but you have to get permission. you have to get approval. if whitaker or rosenstein said no, they couldn t do it. again, we talked about it off
because he and his team have taken both sides of every issue, and a lot of in obstruction investigation is going to come down to the issue of intent. what was the reason the president fired james comey, revoked the security clearance here? and if you have him on record saying i did it for reason a and did it for reason b, and they re completely inconsistent, he s got to be pinned down and live with one of those decisions one way or the other. that s why this subpoena battle is going to become so important. nancy, this is another one of those cases how many people knew he had granted an interview to the wall street journal ? was there anyone there to prep him and keep his thoughts on the straight and narrow, and to you and your sources how much worry is there you re picking up from the west wing? because we re not talk about the trump agenda again tonight. yeah, i think this whole week has been dominated basically by omarosa and the brennan stuff. they re just sort of not able to p
shown for that. the area of focus so far has been obstruction of justice, which he has the right to do under article 2 of the constitution and what did he know about this nothing burger meeting in trump tower and they already got testimony on that so if they can t show a compelling need they can t run a subpoena battle and the conditions being put on this are probably a deadline and a narrow to go and probably in conjunction that they may not accept. if it does go we have eight justices, justice kennedy retired from the bench, and
file a motion to quash. that is filed with the district court and court of appeals. a subpoena for live testimony has never been tested in court as to a president of the united states. there is a lot of language, articles and precedent against that. so he could do it, mueller. he could fail. it would take a lot of time and that really hurts mueller if he loses. i think it does because as long as the subpoena battle is open he will not want to say i closed the investigation. it will take a long time. although i think that the outcome is that mueller will win, we don t know. there is always litigation risks. so here is the other thing. the issue of the president wanting to do an interview. there are different schools of thought, him saying it as bs or means it. he has said it. here is what he said. are you going to talk to mueller? i m looking forward to it,