at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. developing at this hour, the u.s. and nato offering no concessions to russia on its demands for resolving the ukraine crisis. the kremlin confirming vladimir putin has read the u.s. and nato written responses, but the kremlin also warning, quote, there are few reasons for optimism. cnn s nic robertson live in moscow with more for us this hour. nic, what s the latest from there? reporter: yeah, said for us in this written response, there are some issues that we can talk
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mueller will say you refused. we re moving on without you. how mueller wraps things up with the president answering questions. it s your contention, he will say fine, got it, check mark. mover on. absolutely. much of this is window dressing for the public s perception. mueller was playing this game with the public perception of i have to allow my target, let s call the president a target, chance to respond. he has chosen the route of written responses. he s chosen not to obstruction and that s it. i ll tell the public you had your shot. you didn t have your chance. we re done. that s what s going on. there is also the person of when we talk about his change. there s somebody new who is overseeing the peshl counsspeci investigation. the president was asked about whittaker and his response is interesting. i know you saw it but i want to play it for folks. it s going to be up to him.
leaving doubt is he wanted to hand in a lot of written responses. you re talk about the wo woodward reporting? no the other book. the miller book. they didn t want trump giving up anything. he didn t think he would tell the truth in any form. particularly with the miller book what they said is there was an interview that was scheduled. it was going to be at camp david. it was cancelled and dowd but jay seculo was preparing responses to the 19 or so questions. they didn t think it was a good idea because they didn t want to have the president giving anymore written responses. nick, that goes to something else that donald trump said in his appearance today where he sort of made light of what he views as attempts to trick people into perjuring themselves. take a look.
demanded ideological purity. the president saying he wants jordan potentially to be the ranking member on the judiciary committee again related to the potential impeachment proceedings. so we ll be watching that through the afternoon. casey hunt, thank you. we ll talk more about the florida recount later on. but up next, new developments in the russia investigation. a source telling us written responses to bob mueller from president trump might come as early as this week. what we know about what those answers might revolve around and how much they matter or maybe not to the special counsel, that is next.