that mr. mueller could lose in court. besides being politically dead wrong i believe the advice of his attorneys stands at odds with the president s own public statements just last month. trump not only said he would be willing to speak with mueller but that he was looking forward to it. are you going to talk to mueller? i m looking forward to it actually. do you have a date set, mr. president? no, just talking about two or three weeks. i would love to do it. again, i have to say subject to my lawyers and all of that, but i would love to do it. to reach a higher standard, you would do it under oath. yeah, absolutely. with an ultimate decision expected within weeks, the question now is whether trump s attorneys will prevail in keeping the president away from mueller and if so whether the president will be served with a grand jury subpoena. joining me is the author of that story michael schmidt, new york times reporter and an msnbc national security contributor.ken dilani
trump s legal team is telling the president to refuse the special counsel s request to question him. according to four people briefed on the matter lawyers for president trump advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel. their concern is the president who has a history of making false statements and contradicting himself could be charged with lying to investigators. however, refusing to cooperate with the special counsel s request for a voluntary interview carries the risk mueller could hit the president with a grand jury subpoena, a move that would quickly escalate the potential legal battle all the way to the supreme court. in january, nbc news reported the president s attorneys were seeking potential compromise that could avoid an encounter with mueller all together. now his lawyers is appear to risk a possible legal 0 showdown. they believe the special counsel might be willing to subpoena the president and set off a showdown
november, they ll say no, trump told me that was someone else s fault. if you re retired and watching fixed income and you don t have a chance to make new money that, market thing scared the heck out of you yesterday. it was a good opportunity for people on the right to say blame the left. there are people who communicated with the president in the last 24 hours and said this is why you don t want to take credit too much for the stock market. you want to talk about other things in the economy. this is a president who doesn t listen to advice if he doesn t want to hear it. why did trump run for president? first birtherism, then obama ripped him at the correspondent s dinner. trump s always been obsessed with barack obama. he played a brand of white identity politics that galvanized people who had a grievance about the fact they had to live through two terms of barack obama and much of the presidency so far the unifying thread has been undoing the things obama did trying to undo the
the truth. that s problematic. with this president, he seems teflon when it comes to those kinds of risks. i wouldn t be surprised if he s willing to take that risk. i guess if he says he can shoot somebody on fifth avenue, i can take the fifth. robert mueller and his investigators have been thorough in their investigation as the washington post reported. people who appeared before mueller s team say prosecutors have detailed accounts of events sometimes to the minnesota and have surprise witnesses by showing them e-mails or documents they were unaware the team had or their colleagues had written. the prospect trump would be outmatched by the prosecutor would be why his defenders are warning him not to cooperate. under no circumstances should he grant mr. mueller an interview. it s a suicide mission. it s a very clear perjury trap. if you ask me, don t do it. i don t care what format, i don t care what circumstances. don t do it.
happening it because of him. even in the same day. but ginger, here s the problem. to pinpoint one day a monday in february a year into your term more than a year in to your term and say this day is obama s fault after saying day after day after day this great news is me, i did this but there one day sean hannity says this is all obama. don t they laugh? don t them have tissue rejection? even i m a right winger, enough. it s important to remember this day came after trump s biggest legislative victory he claims was the reason the market had gone up as far as it had in the last month. there s the ability to just sort of wave your hand and say pay attention over here. don t look what s happening over there. he s banking someone who may be saw the news about what the markets did on monday saw him accusing democrats of treason or blaming obama and waves it off. when they get to the polls in