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is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
Decision about whether i m telling the truth or not. that s highly prejudicial, though. if you were going to say that he were lying even if it s just in a report, you ve got a standard of proof. that s a crime, perjury. it s not just we believe comey, we don t like you, so we re going to believe him and not you. you give reasons why, but ultimately it s a credibility decision, and i wouldn t want the credibility decision made by the people who are staffing that investigation. you don t have any concerns if you were representing the president that he would be able to tell the truth in the chair? i would have his concerns about his tendency, as you put it, to improvise. of course i would have concerns about that. i m rational. judge, thank you for your perspective. as we go through this process, i will call on you time and time again. love to come back. all right. in a new attempt to discredit mueller, the president says study the late joe mccarthy. does he really want to b
Though. if you were going to say that he were lying even if it s just in a report, you ve got a standard of proof. that s a crime, perjury. it s not just we believe comey, we don t like you, so we re going to believe him and not you. you give reasons why, but ultimately it s a credibility decision, and i wouldn t want the credibility decision made by the people who are staffing that investigation. you don t have any concerns if you were representing the president that he would be able to tell the truth in the chair? i would have his concerns about his tendency, as you put it, to improvise. of course i would have concerns about that. i m rational. judge, thank you for your perspective. as we go through this process, i will call on you time and time again. love to come back. all right. in a new attempt to discredit mueller, the president says study the late joe mccarthy. does he really want to be making comparisons to mccarthy now? the truth is the truth. something that we ac