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we re talking about this yaush investigation. sources say mueller has given lawyers a range of topics that could be asked about. also to show level of cooperation, the president has provided his lawyers released a batch of figures on exactly how much they and the trump campaign have worked with investigators. 20-plus white house staffers gave interviews and thousands of pages were turned over. you can see the breakdown on the dismissals of michael flynn and james comey. to add to all of that, during this impromptu q & a before he left for davos, world economic forum, the president said he would do the mueller interview under oath. are you going to talk to mueller? i m looking forward to it, actually. you want to? here is the story. is there a date set? there s been no collusion whatsoever, no obstruction whatsoever and i m looking forward to it. you would do it under oath? oh, i would did it under
you fight back john, you fight back. oh, it s obstruction. so here is the thing. i hope so. with me now, robert bauer, former white house counsel for the obama administration. a pleasure. welcome to cnn. thank you. first, just listening to the president, fighting back, obstruction and, p.s., we can t crawl into the president s mind to know what he was referencing. what do you take of his obstruction of justice definition there? i don t know that he was lawyering. what does that mean? i don t know that he was articulating a legal basis. if i had to guess i would say that he has a political right to complain about these obstruction charges and the investigation in russia a hoax doesn t constitute obstruction of justice. on another level you can take other actions that you view as fighting back and they would constitute obstruction of justice. there s some confusion there between what he thinks his
leap from i have been told by someone that there are off-site secret meetings happening at the fbi to, it must have to do with secret society, a reference, a partial reference in a text with no context. even if he was right, it s irresponsible to go out and say this is evidence. even if he was born out it is quite clear now that we ve seen the whole text, now that we know from cnn reporting that this was a joke, that there was nothing before or after mentioned about a secret society. now we know he was wrong. even if he was right, he shouldn t have done it. what about the fact that at the very end, as manu had mentioned, wait until we see the new texts. like he s dangling just a little bit of something saying, let s just all wait and see here, as in conspiracy to be continued. again, is it possible there s something in this new tro texts?
initially supposed to be in davos, switzerland, with her husband, the president. she canceled that trip. and, right now, first lady, melania trump, is suddenly making this unannounced trip to florida. what s wha cnn is learning about why she s headed south next. you do all this research