and yet here it is, relatively small, tolerant, welcoming to outsiders, peaceful, and stunningly beautiful. but oman is facing uncertainty with succession issues and declining oil reserves. the quell of what s next is a big, if often, unspoken one. so pre1970, this was a very different, very different place to live, very different country. quite simply there was nothing. we had only free schools in oman and only for boys. we had only two hospitals. for the whole country? yes, for the whole country. and nine miles of big drug in muscot. and who was beyond was of absolutely no concern to leadership. absolutely, yes. sheik ben sewol mean algofri
his investigation? well, i think he s considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he s weighing that option. i think it s pretty clear by what one of his lawyers said on television recently. i think it would be a very significant mistake, even though i don t interesting now to hear. maggie, it s interesting to hear chris ruddy who clearly talks with the president with some regularity saying that. caller: it s striking and i was thinking about this. there is less of a concern that i have heard and colleagues earlier, less of a concern that i have heard about the idea that the president will fire mueller, although obviously, i think that lives on as a concern even if it s an unspoken one, that
it s an unspoken one, that there s been an effort by ty cobb to sort of simmer down the attention on mueller with the president and be less aggressive and say we have nothing to hide, be transparent, but part of that telling the president that this is going to be over very soon, but he really doesn t know, they don t have a lot of great options dealing with the president. what i do hear concern about among his advisers in the white house, and they are pretty blunt about this. they re very worried about when he goes before mueller, he didn t seem to understand this yesterday when i asked him about being under oath, if you lie to the fbi, ythese are felonies. people are concerned about what he will say in that interview. it s also interesting, to that point, in a 15-minute conversation in which you were in with reporters yesterday, which was not on camera, the president s attorneys immediately had to walk back some of the things he had said