president trump s former attorney, john dowd, tolded associated press that mueller s prosecutors broached the subject during a meeting with trump s legal team. the washington post was first to describe the tense meeting that took place on march 5, in which trump lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators, according to four people familiar with the encounter. but mueller responded that he had another option, if trump declined, he could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury. trump s then-attorney john dowd replied, this isn t some game. he actually should be telling that or he should have been telling that to his client. he said that according to two people with knowledge of his comments, you are screwing with the work of the president of the united states. dowd quit trump s legal team two and a half weeks later. reportedly over disagreements on strategy. and interview negotiations with
why is vladimir putin sending one of his kremlin agents over to talk do you think they want to adopt a child? always possible. it is always possible. humanitarian. plus mike pence praises joe arpaio as a tireless champion to the rule of law. the same joe arpaio who faced jail time for criminal contempt conviction before being pardoned by president trump. thank you, mr. vice president. way to hurt yourself with conservatives, look on twitter. mr. vice president. first here s bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill. bill, it s not, it s not 38 and raining, finally. finally. that was going to be 90 and sunny. so, yes. that s just too hot. no, it s not, we re good. we re fine with jumping straight to summer after the april we just got done with. with the warm weather on the east coast, the middle of the country is dealing with severe
we ll see how it all shakes out. and there are a lot of possible twists around turns. i m with jonathan turley on this. i think mueller has the power to do this. the question is how long it might take and how much of a fight it might be. who knows. rudy giuliani told me yesterday that he has an open mind on the strategy whether or not to sit the president down for an interview. he believes you tailer your strategy to the current events, the best thing that is going to happen for your client. he s not stuck in one mold. we ll see what he decides to recommend and what the president agrees to do. jonathan turley, of the 49 questions that the new york times acquired a couple days ago and were made public to the rest of us yesterday morning, what is most concerning to you if you re on president trump s legal team and what did we learn from the first real look inside the mueller investigation? most of these questions are very predictable. the one i think is the sleeper
more difficult it will be. they ve waited too long in my view, but it s still the best option. he can be prepared for this. and having counsel at his elbow, he can get through it. most of these questions are very predictable. he does have defenses for them. some of them are little more dangerous than others. there are a couple sleeper questions in there, which quite frankly i would be much more concerned with than those getting a lot of attention. carol leonnig, tell us about the story. this is your reporting. well, you know what i found the most compelling about this when we were talking to our sources was the idea of this showdown on march 5th. we thought we understood everything that happened at this meeting between trump s lawyers and bob mueller. you know, we reported some time ago that at this meeting it is where bob mueller explained to trump s lead lawyer, john dowd, look, your client is not a criminal target at this point. he s a subject of my investigation, which, you kno
mueller were derailed by the raid on michael cohen s offices three weeks ago, which rudy giuliani says the president is resisting. and willie of course now since dowd has left, the president has gone to the washington law firm of larry, moe and curly, that s his new legal team. he s got giuliani, too. of counsel. exactly. and then yesterday president trump slammed the release of potential questions we told you about yesterday. the ones robert mueller would have for the president. willie, who would have done that? let s find out. because mueller had so much discipline and he didn t leak out these reports. it might have come from the other side. perhaps the new york times publishing those questions said to come from the president s lawyers notes. trump tweeted so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russian witch hunt were leaked to the media. huh? but this morning no reporting suggests president trump was criticizing notes that came from his own legal team.