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will be. he said we don t want questioning on obstruction. they would have to concede that. they are not on the same page on this crucial issue of obstruction of justice. why do you think the president is so against questions about obstruction of justice given that the public record on this speaks for itself? he said one thing to nbc news and another thing on twitter. why wouldn t he answer questions when he has been so public about it? what is his issue with it? i think the president does want to sit down with bob mueller and his legal counsel is advising him against this. every good attorney wants to make sure that their client doesn t make any statements that can come back to cause them pain in the future. that is what his legal team i think is recommending that the president doesn t sit down. i think the president does want to sit down with bob mueller and get this behind him. there this is whole idea out there that he
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
International coalition to extract friendly united states citizens and allies? he just made his first phone call to boris johnson of england yesterday. this has been going on for almost a week now. you have to actually pick up the phone. i don t understand how somebody doesn t sit down and say maybe we should get the americans out and that the last people out should be the united states military because they have the most capability. the exact opposite happened. where is kamala harris? talk about the southern border. she is in charge of the southern border. yeah, what does she do all day? harris: i wish you were back on oversight. maybe you could find out. you know what? there is not a single hearing called about the origins of covid. there is not a single hearing to yank people up on capitol hill about what is going on in afghanistan.
That of his behavior inside that meeting with the leadership high pressure let me remind folks of this. kellyanne, what was my temperament in the room. very calm, no temper tantrum zboo mr. president why would you have to raise your voice you were calm and direct. what was my attitude yesterday at the meeting. they are right. kellyanne is right you were calm. wlafs my tone at the meeting. very calm. i ve seen both and this was definitely not an angry or a ranting, very calm and straightforward. he says congresswoman within he was simply misrepresented by the democrats in the room. well, nifrpg about it from this perspective, chris. he walks into the room, doesn t sit down. they re there to in good faith negotiate a deal on infrastructure. he says, i m not going to talk to you until you stop. stop these investigations. i mean, that is another act of obstructing congress now. and then he walks out to the rose garden and gives his speech. i mean, that is a pet lant child