Ill speak with congressman of the Armed Services committee. And our correspondents and specialists are all standing by with full coverage. Lets begin with jim acosta covering the president in new jersey. The president still hasnt made up his mind apparently about talking to mueller. What is the latest . Reporter thats right. It doesnt sound like it. He just wrapped up a Round Table Discussion on the issue of Prison Reform over at his golf club in new jersey. He didnt take questions from reporters about subjects like the mueller investigation. So what we have now here is the latest reality tv cliff hanger from President Trump. The president is keeping the country in response. Will he or wont he sit down with Robert Mueller in the Russia Investigation . Its the question of the moment for President Trump. The president Isnt Signaling to reporters which way he is leaning on whether to tell what he knows about the Russia Probe To Special Counsel robert
mueller. Instead he is letting the res
i meant comey, not jeff sessions, freudian slip. but do we want to know why he fired people and whether that was obstruction of justice? no one else can speak to him and those answers. do we want all the information or not as americans? i think the president seen what argue though from a political perspective, but he has answered all of that to the american people numerous times. i understand it hasn t been under oath. but the story changed. you are the lawyer on the panel, from a political perspective, if the president does not respond to the subpoena, saying there is one, or doesn t respond to an interview at all come up with us continue to drag out not just through the midterms, i m talking about through 2020 at this point. how long can a protracted court battle last? gregg: if you could try to expedite it through the u.s. supreme court and i imagine the supreme court would take it fairly quickly. they have done so in the past
the president s legal team is that a subpoena is not something that robert mueller will do because it will make a court battle last for months and months. we don t know what is in it. we suspect based on things that giuliani and other members of the president s legal team and the president has said that there is going to be not much on the table from the president s point of view that has to deal with possible obstruction of justice and it is hard to imagine that robert mueller will be okay with that. is it appropriate for the attorney for the president of the united states to be making this kind of political calculation suggesting if there is no deal it might be good for republicans in the mid term