indictments, but if suddenly the president has to say those angry democrats who were working with bob mueller were actually just part of a justice department doing its job after he has criticized the justice department he has been vindicated by them. he is now vindicated, exactly. how do you manage that politically? we obviously can t jump the gun here. we have to see what comes out from barr and what s in the report. if i m at mar-a-lago with the president as pamela has been reporting the lawyers are feeling good. that i would be very happy. absolutely. let s not forget i know we have said it. but this investigation is over. the president never sat down for an interview with robert mueller. that s huge. that was always the big question and something the lawyers never wanted to happen. they were able to prevent that and a subpoena fight. robb eert mueller never put in
subpoena fight, order feels he has all the evidence that he needs because the president has been pretty cooperative in making others available for interviews and in turning over documents so mueller can feel, i have all i would have gotten if i had an interview so let s move on and close this down. and let this be handled by those that i passed off the chat ral cases to. what are the chances we see more indictments? i think we will see more indictments for sure out of southern district of new york. out of the manhattan district attorney s office. we just saw at this time day after manafort s sentencing. i think there s still stuff that will be investigated with respect to the trump organization. the financial crimes investigation. i don t know if we are completely done with the so-called collusion part of the investigation. that is, mueller s counter intelligence and coordination
continue with the gates part of the case. it could therefore be that wiceman is leaving or it could signal that mueller is indeed winding down and he s losing one of his key guys because there s not much more to do. we were just discussing that gates case has not wrapped up yet. michael flynn, the information he gave to prosecutors is still being utilized in some way. although they did say they would be ready to move on. do you think mueller has abandoned efforts to interview president trump? would it appear so. it would seem to me if at this point in the case, all we have is written questions and answers and we see no indication that mueller is moving toward a subpoena, either he can t win a subpoena fight or doesn t want a
now to the nearing deadline on those document requests by the house judiciary committee. the documents from 81 individuals and organizations linked to president trump are due monday. and committee chairman jerry nadler says only about half will be completed. that could set the stage for a subpoena fight over the others. what s more, ivan cal trump is a key focal point of the requests accordings to the new york times of the 81 document requests sent, 52 individuals and organizations were asked to turn over documents related to miss trump or her business interests. let s bring in jonathan alter, columnist for the daily beast and political analyst. reen nan shaw, rick tyler, msnbc little analyst. jonathan, 52 requests related to ivanka trump, none sent to her directly. talk about the strategy behind
criminalb defense attorney, br stephens from the new york times and my dear friend eddie glob. roberto costa, to you first. how would you describe the way the white house or what their strategy is in response to all these requests? they re approaching a subpoena fight. at the moment, they re trying to rebuff democratic requestsin fo documents for possible testimony from white house officials and others around president trump. but if the democrats in the house do not get what they want, this couldth lead to a subpoena fight, a fight that then could extend into the courts. for now, the white house is trying to argue democrats don t have a right to security clearance information because it s classified at some level and it s complicated and sensitive, but democrats are really looking for the president s conduct with regard to those security clearances. and so they may be able to try to have a battle over the extent of what they can find document wise but still ask those tough question