remarks come as he is now being advised by former new york city mayor rudy giuliani who has warned trump against sitting down for a mueller interview answer as mueller considers using a subpoena to force trump to testify before his grand jury. now, if team trump plans to fight a potential subpoena, that fight could take months and go all the way to the supreme court. three presidents have been subpoenaed in the past, thomas jefferson for documents, rich and nixon for tapes and bill clinton for testimony in a civil dispute. jefferson partially complied with his subpoena and bill clinton s was dismissed when he volunteered to testify in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by paula jones. but as for nixon, he refused to comply for the subpoena with the subpoena until the supreme court in a unanimous decision forced him to obey. by releasing taped white house conversations, including the smoking gun tape about watergate that led to his resignation. so if mueller subpoenas trump
drum beat, this sort of trying to muddy the waters about the actual law. right. but, i mean, the logical reason for them on the side of the trump side, jill i will come to you is in this case you are not talking about civil damages for a sexual harassment lawsuit, you are talking about potential crimes for which someone could in theory be jailed and you are talking about the president of the united states. one could see the partisan logic on the court to say it s a little different. there is a court order this is july 24, 1974, you will be familiar with this from the court s opinion. the president s generalized assertion of privilege must yield to the demonstrated specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial and the fundamental demands of due process of law in the fair administration of criminal justice. now, let s quickly play 15 seconds of the tapes that they released that literally zeroed in on the obstruction, potential criminal case that nixon was facing. telly, talk
pressure on china they could think he s unhinged. like we think kim jong-un is a nut. they could think trump is a nut. he could actually punch the button and do something. they don t know him. nixon used to say this. richard nixon going back that far used to say i want people to think i m crazy. i want them to think i can t be trusted. under nixon, we had great foreign relations. he may have been a bozo on one issue we also had kissinger. i m not sure mike pompeo qualifies in that weight category. i can try. look, if there is if there s a face-to-face discussion between trump and kim jong-un. kim jong-un already comes out the winner. he s already been taken seriously by the most powerful country in the world. he has said he s going to stop testing. it s an important statistic. north korea has tested six times. india tested six times.
involved in an investigation by the president. john dean under nixon whose testimony was paramount turned down 7 figures to write a book and waited until the scandal died down and, of course, monica lewinsky. liz: we don t have a lot of time, but i want to get a response from both of you because obviously the news of the day is syria, david, i want to get your reaction that the white house had a coalition when they made the attacks. always better to have a coalition and president trump was right to highlight participation of uk and france. i m glad that they did strikes. we need deterrence to assad s violence and his own people. we did strike a year ago, those were great too. the problem is there wasn t engagement. what i want to see more engagement by the u.s. in syria, it can t be we are going to
the white house counsel under nixon, don mcgahn and carrie made this point in the last hour is at the center of an awful lot of conversations, knows an awful lot about the inner workings of the white house and particularly this administration and what was said and what wasn t said. does he if he works for the office of the white house, not for donald trump as an individual, does he have an obligation to report anything that he feels is improper? not a there s an ethical obligation that he has. he represents the office of the president and not the occupant of the office. if he sees wrongdoing going on in the office, he may have to go first and say to the office to whoever occupies the office, stop it, mr. trump. this is illegal and i represent this entity, this organization, and you re violating the law. now, if he can t stop it, he may have obligations to go higher and to report out.