as they negotiate for an interview and the parameters of an interview, i think mueller is saying, look, we don t have the goods yet. you re just a subject. you re not a criminal target, and i think it s an attempt to have the president raise the comfort level and get him to sit down. i m going to squeeze in a question. mcclampy reports that mcclatchy reports that they re looking at business deals michael cohen was involved in for trump organization. how hifth significant is this? other networks are saying this is beyond the scope of mueller s inquiry, he s not only is he looking at the president s family business and finances, now he s looking at the president s attorney s business dealings. here s why it s very, very releva relevant, pertinent, and certainly within scope remember that the special counsel inquiry started as a russian counterintelligence investigation. mueller s trying to figure out where russians came in, how early, how many years ago, and whether or not our
president s thugs, details, accusations of similar behavior over the years. looking at that tweet, it seems like avenatti comes just short of calling president trump a thug. what are your thoughts on all of this? well, i would actually push back on the idea that the 60 minutes interview was a fizzle. i mean, maybe if this was a reality tv show, but this is all extraordinarily serious for all the tawdry details. one of the things that was revealed in that 60 minutes interview was precisely this threat. so i understand having spoken a lot to michael avenatti, he s extraordinarily coy, extraordinarily good at stringing us all along and getting the news coverage he s getting now. at the same time, this is you know, this kind of goes to gangster-like tactics by the president of the united states and his attorney. and if there s anything that links this threat to michael cohen, much less the president, it s extraordinarily serious. speaking of the president, katie, let me bring yo
southern border to stop illegal border crossings and drug trafficking. you ve got texas deploying 250 guardsmen, arizona says it s sending another 150. new mexico is on board, as well. but those three states are all led by republican governors. california, the big blue state which really is at the forefront of the anti-trump resistance movement, california hasn t made a decision yet. and the president s critics say this latest immigration push is in many ways a solution that s looking for a problem. that the picture he paints of crime and people overrunning the border is a manufactured crisis aimed at ginning up his supporters. you ve got california governor jerry brown, he s been silent about there so far even though california did participate in the last two deployments of national guard troops to the mexican border. there was the one by george w. bush in 2006 and the other by former president obama in 2010. jeff, another hot topic today. we talked about the fact that stormy daniel
attention. so in a way it s able to cut, you know, the brilliance, the dark brilliance of trump is that he does so many terrible things that not one of them really stands out. i think michael avenatti is calling his bluff as it were or is able to cut through all the noise. and this one is standing out. it s becoming almost a symbol for all of the other corrupt ways that trump has managed his business empire. it s interesting you mention that. we re going to talk about that later this hour. i have to leave it for now. thank you for your time. thanks. let s turn now to the u.s.-mexico border where president trump just tweeted, look at this, we are sealing up our southern border. the people of our great country want safety and security. the dems have been a sdoer this very important issue a disaster on this very important issue. this as hundreds of members of the national guard prepare to head to the national border at the request of the president. the governors of texas and ari
nondisclosure agreement void, but it also heightens the possibility that the president could be forced to sit for a deposition about all of this. never a dull moment. we ll have to see what happens in the days ahead. great reporting. jeff bennett at the white house, thank you. as scott pruittnationsed a pruitt has faced a growing list of ethics questions, his support in the white house has seemed to strengthen by the day. i can t speak to the future of scott pruitt, i can just talk about where we are now. the white house is aware of these reports. we re obviously looking into those. we don t have any announcements to make as to regards to staffing now. we re aware, and you know, we believe that some of these questions need to be answered. i think that scott has done a fantastic job. i think he s a fantastic person. i just left coal and energy country. they love scott pruitt. i m not going to walk through hypotheticals until we have time to go through a full review.