clinton had to testify in a civil lawsuit while he was president. but he was certainly impeached and then was not tried in the senate. suppose bill clinton had said suppose president clinton and his lawyer bob bennett had just said no, i m president of the united states. my client s president of the united states. i m not going to sit before a grand jury or a paula jones matter. i m not going to do it. what would have happened? i think, well, they would have compelled him to do so. how. well, i don t understand the mechanics. i don t know that i necessarily understand the mechanics either. i think that special counsel mueller can compel him to come and be questioned in an interview or before a grand jury. i think that could take place. i don t know that he can actually be tried as president. but if i could just add a little more color to these e-mails?
oligarch, air ras aglab rove was really pushing this meeting when his employees said it might be a bad idea. he wanted it to happen. he s close to putin. he tried to broker a meeting. so the question is why? why is this oligarch close to putin pushing this relationship with donald trump? intelligence sources have a couple of theories. one of them is that this could have been a dangle, russian intelligence trying to figure out how the trump team would react to this. this could be an attempt to plant kompromat. if mike and his colleagues hadn t exposed this meeting, the russians would know these secrets and no one else. they would have that over the trump administration that don junior had gone to a foreign government looking for dirt on his opponent. that s the way intelligence officials look at what could have been going on here, chris. why didn t they give dirt to the trump people and manafort and the other guys?
relationship. they had to keep quiet before the candidate faced the voters. there is an the question of government ethics and responsibility for reporting all these issues and not reporting them as we hear, he didn t report it for two years. right, the head of the oeg thinks this is something that needed to be disclosed and that s why he presented to rod rosenstein at the justice department to determine whether or not there should be criminal charges filed. this is a big, big deal. charge all the guys that work with the president but you can t charge the president. right. according to what giuliani has said and again, whether or not we take that with a grain of salt is the irony donald trump is going to be in better shape if it turns out there s 100 women this will be standard operating procedure not some random event done to save the election. that s what rudy is suggesting. > i think that would be helpful to trump s case in that narrow way. let me go back to paul. that
ended up merging into paula jones which merged into lewinsky. that went on for four years. for all conservatives complaining about a one-year investigation of a president, your investigation went four years. nobody complained at the end of the first quarter and blew the whistle and said stop the game back then. this time around they are. we ll talk about that. where does mueller find his way into this? somehow i believe had he something to do with the new york office of the u.s. attorneys going after this case in the first place. it all seems to be somewhat related. he referred it to them. he referred it and anon what grounds. i don t know that it was part of his mandate. he s got rosenstein has an instructioning. > anything that arises from this investigation is in that mandate. by that definition, you could really investigate anything. i don t know why he referred it to them. all i know is the people in donald trump s inner circle, this has been the case for six to eight mont
welcome back to hardball. today the republican-led senate judiciary committee released thousands of pages of testimony from donald trump jr. and other participants in that infamous trump tower meeting. remember that. with russians in june of 2016. we already know trump junior took that meeting on the promise of russian dirt on hockey which he thought would help his father s campaign. yet, multiple times throughout his testimony, trump junior denied on the record that he ever informed his father of the meeting. saying i never discussed it with him at all. and that i wouldn t have wasted his time with it. he further suggested that the president didn t learn of the meeting till a year later when it was revealed last summer. he s aware of it now because he s read it. it s been in the papers. we re learning phone records show on the day trump junior was planning that meeting, june 6th, had he two conversations with someone at i an blocked phone number. then the third call on june 9th