university school of law. sol, because these are two such different characters and very different men, is there any constant that is transferable, a standard that would apply to the questioning of one, and ergo, to the other? well, for any investigation like this and any questioning like this, you obviously want to be totally prepared. and mueller s got a great experienced, brilliant crew with him. the most important thing i think that assuming this questioning takes place, either informally or at the grand jury, let s say it happens informally, most important thing is to not have time constraint on it. to make it clear there s not going be a time limitation on the questioning. that s number one. number two, is to serve notice on the president that he s going to answer every question unless he claims a privilege. he will not be allowed to do
and their reporting that all but one member of his legal team is against a trump sit-down with mueller for fear of false statements, contradictions and legal jeopardy. here with us tonight to talk about all of it, sol wisenberg, deputy independent counsel for the whitewater lewinsky investigation. to conduct the grand jury questioning of president bill clinton. we welcome to the broadcast, mimi roka, former attorney for the southern district of new york. currently a distinguished fellow and criminal justice at the pace university school of law. sol, because these are two such different characters and very different men, is there any constant that is transferable, a standard that would apply to the questioning of one, and ergo, to the other? well, for any investigation like this and any questioning like this, you obviously want to be totally prepared. and mueller s got a great experien
nucleus question around which everything else rotates? well, i mean, if we re talking about obstruction, which is one area, which some people tend to forget, there s a whole big other piece of this investigation that they re going to want to talk about and get to the bottom of. if we re talking about obstruction, it s going to be what did donald trump know and when did he know it, and what was he thinking when he fired jim comey? what was his intent? for example, they re going to want to know, did he know, you know, that flynn had lied to the fbi? and remember, flynn s cooperating now, so they ve already talked to flynn about this. and that s a very important part of how this is going to work when they re interviewing him or questioning him. because they already have a set of answers from flynn. and so they re going to compare those answers and, you know, see which ones make the most sense really. what a harrowing business you guys work in. counselor and counselor, our thanks. we d
committee, whether to release this second democratic memo, gone they released the first memo as you just pointed out over the extraordinarily public and firm objections from the fbi and the justice department. saying releasing the first memo would be extremely reckless. it is pretty clear trump is in a difficult situation right now. does he release a memo that we can fully expect undermines his argument and his argument is simple, that the fbi was politically motivated in starting the russia investigation, this gop memo proves it, so the russia investigation is a hoax. democrats say, wait, wait, wait, we have ten pages that show basically none of that is true, and here s our evidence. you know, it s arguable that they have a case to make. we haven t seen this memo, but already the author of the first memo, the republican memo, has basically conceded that, yes, they got a fact wrong, that the fbi did tell a fisa court that
we ve seen from the white house, from the president, an effort to try to undermine the credibility of the independent investigation being done by the department of justice under mr. mueller. by attacking the justice department and the fbi, the president is attempting to discredit the russia investigation and protect himself and his family. from connecticut, maryland, and hawaii, democrats in the senate today expressing concerns over republican attempts to discredit this russia investigation. as we mentioned, president trump met today with the man overseeing the investigation about the controversial house intelligence committee dueling memos. chief of staff john kelly addressed the president s meeting with rod rosenstein earlier today. had a great conversation, help the president understand the differences between the first memo, second memo. are you leaning toward