Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace 20180527

This would be one to have biggest insults that anyone has ever seen. The president calls it spygate, why impact does this have with interview with special counsel. We will ask one of the president s personal lawyers, Rudy Giuliani. Plus, we will ask our sunday panel about a new warning for tehran. President rohani, understand that your current activities will be met with result. All right now on fox news sunday. To our viewers and to our veterans on this memorial day weekend, welcome to fox news in washington. There are fresh signs that the push is onto revive the historic summit between President Trump and north Korean Leader kim jong un. Since mr. Trump called off the meeting early thursday morning, the two sides apparently have been back in contact. North and south korea held a surprise second meeting on saturday along the dmz and white house advanced team is expected to leave possibly today for singapore just in case. Also this, the president saying last night, there is still a chance the meeting on june 12th could still happen, correspondent kevin corke live from the white house, hello. Bill, hello, from the endorsed release of three american captives, talks between u. S. And north korea appear all but certain and then unravel but perhaps now will happen after all. Take you back to wednesday night following u. S. References to the socalled libyan model which in turn led the north threatening possibly Nuclear Showdown with the u. S. President trump huddled with National Security adviser john bolton, wasnt long after, thursday morning that we are all read the president s letter canceling the summit adding that the u. S. Nuclear capabilities were massive and that he prayed to god they never have to be used. And then friday, 24 hours later, a glimmer of hope as both the president and defense secretary jim mattis seemed to signal optimism that talks could happen after all following statements from pyongyang. All that just ahead of saturdays report that the leaders from north and south met that pyongyangs commitment of the meeting and full denuclearization remains resalute. I think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get done something. If we got that done and if we can be successful in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, that would be a great thing for north korea, it would be a great thing for south korea, great for japan and great for the world. Bill, advanced teams from washington and pyongyang are set to be headed to the region perhaps soon as today in advance of meeting. By the way, date is an interesting, june 12th, 1987, president regan told gorbisach to tear down the wall. We will see if it happens, kevin. Kevin corker from the white house today, kevin, thanks. Joining us mr. Mayor welcome to fox news sunday. I understand you spoke with the president a few hours ago, is he too eager for the summit to happen . Well, sure he is. I think hes positioned it brilliantly even opponents tell you that. He wouldnt summit to that ridiculous comment about meeting on the nuclear battlefield. He canceled it and now we have kim jong un back where he was before, talking about wanting to do it, meeting with the leader of south korea, so i dont want to raise expectations but i think the president s strategy has played out really brilliantly and the most remarkable thing he can do it with all to have interruptions that i have to bring, totally rigged investigation. Yeah, but did he express level of optimism with you, is he too eager to make this summit happen . Well, no. Somebody too eager wouldnt have turned it down. Hes playing this like Ronald Reagan played and his achievement will be as great or greater. When its all finish, but lets hope. It might take six months. Youre right about that. Theyll be stops and starts along the way and we should be certainly aware of that. The summit needs to be decided before the mueller matter moves forward. Lets move to mueller matter. This week you will not move forward with mueller until you understand what was happening with the informant with the Trump Campaign. Sir, what was this person doing with the campaign . Well, i mean, i dont know that yet. I havent been told that. It just further reiterates what i come to conclude after two months of being with this and the president obviously knew from very early which is this is rigged. You have 13 democrats, youve got focus on things that didnt happen, no russia collusion, no obstruction, just defending yourself and now we are into the basis of it being e leg legitimate. Hes questioning whether there should be investigation because they switched over from counterintelligence to criminal, i want to know if they got any evidence in the intelligence probe. I think they didnt. When you say you dont think they did or they did not, you just referred to there, do you have that on good information because there were two classified briefings on thursday this weekend, im told no documents were shown, no one has talked about the briefing, there was a short statement by adam vchiff and he read off of a piece of paper, what can you learn or perhaps now, what do you know about this informant . Well, what i know is what i execulate, no one has shared it with me. Im positive they shared it with the president but probably at this point its better that we dont know. We have to know, however, before we recommend to the president. When you look at how they treated manafort, how they spun into cohen, they are chasing things in the middle east, i mean, the reality is we are not going to sit them down if this is a trap for perjury and we are convinced of that. If they dont show us these documents, we with going to have to say no. Let me emphasize, he wants to explain that he did nothing wrong. Its us the lawyers who have to convince them that this is a trap. So take us inside that meeting with the president then what do you tell him . What does he ask you . What is that interchange . First of all, my job has been to try and negotiate grounds for an interview and weve been doing it. I mean, we have a team now, not only with jay but with jan and shes taking the load really of doing the negotiating with the mueller people. But the reality is that weve all become convinced even though we began with the hope that it could be done in good faith that theres too much. Now, some of it is muellers fault, some isnt. The whole thing with this investigation that was going on which we consider spying was done before mueller got involved, but it completely changed his investigation. Entirely you believe . Yeah. I mean, you have to ask whats the basis of the investigation . That and how about leaked comey report that turns out to come from a guy that, i think, hes one of the biggest liars in the history of washington. Let me get back to what youre referring to. No, they were not. They were spying on a term i dont particularly like on what the russians were doing, trying to understand were the russians infiltrating, trying to gain access and leverage and influence. You called the spy, they called informant. Whats wrong with the government trying to figure out whats wrong with the government trying to figure out what russia was up to . Nothing wrong with the government doing that. Everything wrong with the government spying on a candidate of the opposition party. Thats watergate. Spygate and without any warning to him and now to compound that, to make it into a criminal investigation, bill, thats why this is a rigged investigation. Thats why the president has been right from the beginning. Way back when the president said there was surveillance of his campaign, turns out he was right, it was human surveillance rather than technical surveillance but surveillance nonetheless. Bill your strategy became clear back to james comey, you will put the credibility of the president up against the credibility of james comey and almost every day the week the president has referred to comey. He said this just on wednesday. The fbi is a fantastic institution, but some of the people at the top were rotten apples. James comey was one of them. Ive done Great Service to the country by getting rid of them, firing them. Facts matter, the fbi use of resource, tightly regulated, protecting the country, attacks on the fbi and lying about work with lasting damage to our country, how will republicans explain this to their grandchildren. You are putting james comey on trial and now listening talk to you you are also putting the government on trial based on the investigation saying its not legitimate. I understand where youre coming from, mr. Mayor, but how does this end . Well, first of all, it isnt the government, its james comey, clapper, brennan, the people who took this investigation and turned it on a candidate. You cant say you are spying on the russians if what youre trying to show russians colluding, whatever the hell that means with the Trump Campaign, the spying on Trump Campaign and the president should have been briefed. If he didnt, that would be outrage and at that point the campaign should been briefed. Not treated like criminals when there was no proof of collusion. Year and a half later and theres no proof of collusion, so stop the investigation, stop spending millions of dollars more. Bill if they do not do that, does the president have to fire someone . The president is not going to fire them. That would be playing in the hands of playing victim, they are the watergate, they are the people who committed the crimes. What we have to do is go to court and seek protection from the court if we have to do that. Our first thing is we are not going to testify unless its all straightened out, unless we learn the basis of the russia investigation, they are not going to tell us because the basis is going to turn out spread to trump to be unethical or illegal. They are going to tell us what they have found so far and the basis of the investigation, russian collusion. Here is what they found, zero, nada, nothing. President maybe they should wake up and realize the president is innocent and thats why he wants to it testify, because of them we dont want them to it testify. Its not fair. 13 democrats angry as heck and some of them at Hillary Clintons funeral. When she was supposed to have a victory party. Bill we are a long way from an interview, arent we . Well, maybe we are not along way deciding that we will have one. Everybody will find out they dont have anything. Bill earlier in the week you said, you could sit july, muellers report comes out in september, is that timeline still viable . It is if we could get over what seems to be fairly monumental problems, they keep growing. We dont create them, bill, they created the problem of this what you want to call it, spygate investigation, improper investigation of a candidate, why does everybody get all upset when they invade the Democratic National committee, republicans do and now theyve invaded the Trump Campaign, nobody is angry. Didnt warn him. Bill if you sit for an interview, you could walk into a perjury trap. If you delay or if you say no based on description today democrats can use on midterms, are you essentially boxed in on that schedule . Well, could be. But i dont think so. Here is where we are. We have to be lawyers, the four of us, 5 of us have to act like lawyers and we have to give them the legal advice. He can make the political judgment, look, i can put a different hat on and talk about that too. His Approval Rating its the highest its ever been. I believe the democrats are going up wrong alley here. The republicans did this to clinton and it backfired. The reality is the American People have come to the conclusion everybody else has, this investigation is rigged, its unfair, and if they have to choose on impeachment or not, the president is going to making peace with north korea god willing and we should all be rooting for that, they are not probably, but we are, this could really turn on them and they will not have impeachment in congress that they want. Bill i have two more questions for you, if you dont sit for interview, you could face a subpoena and i know you said you will challenge the subpoena all the way to u. S. Supreme court where you believe you will win because you have the votes, who is the fifth vote at the Supreme Court for you today . Well, i think on the constitutional issue its a close question. I think we win it as does tedd olson who wrote article last week. However, on the olc question, namely do they have the authority to do it, we cant lose, i think we get all votes because the Justice Department defines the authority of the independent counsel, he doesnt have the own authority, the Justice Department says you cannot issue criminal process to sitting president. Thats the law all over the world for head of state. Maybe in the ninth circuit, not in a fair court. Bill hes more likely to sit with chairman kim than bob mueller. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] bill just listening to you, i dont believe the interview will ever happen, am i right, sir . No, it could happen, he wants to do it. So far since ive been in this, all i see are obstacles that they are putting in the way. Starting with cohen. Whats that all about . And then going off on something about the middle east and which turned out to be software that was turned down by the campaign and now the spygate, wow, we have i dont think they are going to want to tell us about it because its so damn embarrassing. I want to emphasize not to the fbi, leadership at the time. Bill last question, do you think you have structured his offense since you came on board . Pardon me . I do, i did. I took over a good situation. Ty and john dowd had done a good job, they got out of the way over disclosure of documents and you you can sit in a position, you dont need them, also a way to resist the subpoena and i think they had they had pretty much defined the fact that this interview had to be on our terms but we cant do it, so i think maybe i gave it more structure, i kind of have knowledge of him probably better than they do. He and i are very good friends for 30 years and i worked very heavily on his campaign so i know, i know this great desire he has to testify but i also know this is an intelligent man who has a lot of other things to do and i cant stand it after this interview over, i will wait for him to call me, i cant interrupt whats going on, i cant interrupt a briefing with bolton and pompeo and this is not important enough. Bill mayor giuliani, thank you for your time. Thanks for spending some of your weekend with us. Thank you. [laughter] bill up next, two key senators react to uncertainty of whether or not the singapore summit will or not the singapore summit will or will not happen stop dancing around the pain thats keeping you awake. Advil pm gives tossing and turning a rest and silences aches and pains. Fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer with advil pm. Get ready for the wild life with one a day mens. 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In a moment we will talk about with senator chris coons, democrat from delaware but first in studio here in washington Missouri Republican senator roy blunt on the Senate Intelligence committee. Senator blunt welcome back to fox news sunday. You were just listening to Rudy Giuliani, what did you think that was important . Rudy giuliani did mention that the president will not stop Mueller Investigation, he would like to have it come to a conclusion and thats where pretty much i am and the whole country, lets get the facts an get this done, find out what there was to find out and move on and i heard him once again say that just like ive said, i dont think we should make it impossible for the president to fire mueller by congressional action because i dont think we have the right to do that but i think it would be foolish thing for the president to do to take that action. Bill the mayor suggested that he will not fire. Absolutely. Bill the president refers to this fbi informant majority a spygate, should the government have informant connected with National Campaign . I think it would be fine to find out what the russians were doing. It would not be fine to find out what the campaign was doing. Im frankly concerned about a lot of the things saw happen between the fbi and both campaigns getting involved with the Clinton Campaign at two different times, both of which i thought reached questionable questions and then if you actually did have someone trying to find out from the campaign what was going on in the campaign and who they were talking to as oppose to legitimately having reasons to believe that they should be there, we will see, its taking a long time to get this information from the fbi and frankly from the National Security team. Bill on north korea, you said this past week that the north koreans like to pretend to negotiate. What was all about this week, was that pretend . Who knows, its right out of north korean play book, we are into three generations, act like you want to negotiate, come up with some outlandish view of what that negotiation means and try to wind up with early benefits to your side and not following through on what youve agreed to do so its not surprising, i dont think, what was probably surprising to them was the president s agreement initially to meet and then his willingness to say, hey, this is not a serious meeting, i

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