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one concession, according to sources he has agreed to reduce his number of questions from pandas initial list of 49 and he s willing to accept some answers in writing, but others he still wants oral answers to. sources say it talks continue but add there is a long way to go. rudy giuliani told fox news his inclination is still to say no to an interview but president trump wants him to keep talking with mueller. news of the mueller response followed a this morning in which president trump criticized the investigation and strongest language yet. the president tweeting this is a terrible situation, attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stay in our country any further. the white house was quick to proclaim he was airing his frustration, not telling jeff sessions what to do. piece stating his opinion clearly and is express
i m ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis bergdorf. judging by new reports and the president s own tweets, donald trump is seeking to end special counsel mueller s investigation one way or another. three sources tell the new york times trump is flouting his lawyers advice and pushing for an interview with robert mueller in hopes it will clear his name. the report came hours after the president released seven tweets with misleading claims about the probe s origin, writing, this is a terrible situation, and attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch-hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. bob mueller is totally conflicted and has 17 angry democrats that are doing his dirty work. are a disgrace to usa. well, the president ignored reporter s questions after a white house meeting while his surrogates said he was merely expressing himself. it is not an order. it is the president s opinion, and it is ridiculous that all
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love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth there s a major disconnect. there was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. another one said 3,000. another five a day. another ten a day. if you sit down with mueller, if they don t have obstruction, we don t know whether they do. he s tweeting. his state of mind is all over the place. he could say he fired comey. if they don t have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, it s conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. so why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when you re going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because that s what this president does, period. harry, so far mueller hasn t moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. this negotiation has been going on since january that
clinton and don, jr. among others. and there is more. a federal judge is forcing a long-time aide to trump advisor roger stone to turnover documents and testify before a grand jury hearing, hearing evidence in the mueller investigation. stone sought damaging information about hillary clinton from wikileaks, the website which published thousands of hacked democratic e-mails, e-mails stolen by russian hackerses, hackers the trump justice department identified as agents of the russian government. there are also new developments in the trial of the president s former campaign manager, paul manafort s bookkeeper testifying that her boss was effectively broke and lying to banks about his precarious financial situation after losing his biggest client, which is the pro-russian former ukrainian president. and that was right about the same time that manafort started working for the trump campaign. the bookkeeper also testified that she knew nothing of foreign accounts controlled by manafort. t
his comments were aimed directly at president bill clinton, amid the monica lewinsky scandal. and if these comments prove anything, it s that hypocrisy in politics is alive and well. that will wrap things up for me this hour. kasie hunt is back with us for the 3:00. kasie, i don t know what mike pence is thinking when he stares adoringly at the speak as the president speaks, but i wonder if any of that is going through his head? reporter: let s just say that some of the behavior that we have, has been alleged against this president, is not necessarily anything that the mike pence that i have covered for many years would have ever approved of. katy, it s nice to see you. you too. iam kasie hunt in for ali velshi. rick gates, former trump deputy campaign manager, and manafort s longtime business partner, has just concluded his testimony and for the first time in the trial, we re hearing about manafort s time with the trump campaign.
gates is cooperating with the special counse