is that accurate? i m taking that that s a yes. she s dancing very, very close to the law, and she s playing coy when asked key questions, what did you do? did you accept payment, what she s doing is a race to sue me, if you want to sue me, do, but we go back to court and the evidence is public. reporter: the silence on the critical questions is different than what she said in the 2011 interview, not published until last week. she told in-touch magazine there was a sexual encounter with donald trump in 2006 at a resort in nevada, and that trump was, quote, submiten with her. the trump lawyer denies any affair took place. he never responded to our request whether he paid $130,000 in hush money to daniels. cohen forwarded the statement from daniels denying an affair or hush money. the white house dismissed the story as old allegations, but avoided addressing the substance of the claim. for the president, he s
the white house. we are learning now, millions of documents, dozens of people have been interviewed, millions of documents have been made available while president trump s lawyer walks back readiness to talk under oath with the special counsel. plus, tonight, the white house plays let s make a deal offering a deal to the path ray for citizenship for nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants. will republicans fight it? plus, why did the first lady make an unscheduled trip to florida after skipping out of a chance to accompany her husband to switzerland? we ll have more on that. stay with us. when i found out i had age-related macular degeneration, amd, i wanted to fight back. my doctor and i came up with a plan. it includes preservision. only preservision areds 2 has the exact nutrient formula recommended by the national eye institute to help reduce the risk of progression of moderate to advanced amd backed by 15 years of clinical studies.
an interview with the president, he s further along than we expected because we anticipate an interview with a key figure like the president is going to take place towards the latter part of the investigation, not the early or middle part of the investigation. i do want to push back, though, on this presentation they are trying to make today, which is they are fully cooperating, and they made all these people available. the reality is, we saw just as recently a week ago when we had steve bannon before the house intelligence committee, the white house instruct him, not to assert privilege, but refuse to answer a whole series of questions. that s not cooperation. that s hiding the ball. they can t have it both ways. well steve bannon will answer all the questions, we re told, once appears before the special counsel, taking place fairly soon, right? yes. he s going to have to. i think the white house recognizes that the president that they can just tell him not to answer questions wit
there s no collusion. now they say, oh, well, did he fight back? you fight back, you say sir. you fight back, oh, it s obstruction. reporter: as trump s legal team cleans up the president s comments you would under oath? yes. absolutely. reporter: sources say the president s lawyers could push for written responses to mueller s questions instead of a sit-down. white house special counsel ty cobbs, saying the president wants to talk to mueller, but they proceed with caution. do you have any fear of a perjury trial? no, but i think it would be foolish without considering that possibility. reporter: a source telling cnn the president s attorney will argue to mueller s team there s no case against trump. i can tell you, there s no collusion. i couldn t have cared less about russians having to do with my campaign. reporter: meanwhile, chuck grassley announcing today he wants to release the transcript
the wall. i m fascinated to see how it lands. it will make neither liberals nor conservatives happy, a recipe for potential success. yeahyeah. i could see it something the senate passes, but the question is, what gets through the house? yeah. you have paul ryan with the conservative block, perhaps if it has the president, premature, but called amnesty don, and so, you know, the question is whether there s going to be a real conservative backlash, and whether, in the end, the president, himself, will remain on this plan. what do you think? well, of course, to gloria s point, what are democrats on the other side saying? yeah. this fight goes now from just one about a border wall and in dreams ers to curtailing visas issued and chain migration. you have many democrats saying no deal. this was about a border wall and