David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run
to be hard to avoid any kind of question involving the collusion issue when the president is basically saying they knew what they were doing when they went into that trump tower meeting. you have focused a lot on the subpoena, specter of a subpoena here, as all of this continues. and you ve talked to a number of legal experts, i know, who have weighed in on this, told you with some surprise. it s curious to them that robert mueller hasn t pursued a subpoena yet. help me understand their thinking, why it seems so unorthodox to them, at least, that robert mueller hasn t done this, as this conversation about an interview continues. well, if robert mueller wanted to talk to the president, if he decides that that is a critical part of his investigation, it s important to use legal tools to get to that result. and a subpoena would take a while. you re going to almost definitely have a court battle. you could see a battle go all the way up to the supreme court. and there s been some repor