News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Mueller lately. Seems like every ten days or so, this whips back up. You have the manafort trial, as jeff mentioned. I also think he probably doesnt distinguish too much between what mueller is doing and what prosecutors in new york are looking into with cohen. You have that sort of implied threat from cohen over the trump tower meetings. And all this stuff is together. Also at a time when we know his team wants him to focus on what mueller is doing as far as election hacking. We know that trumps team wanted him to try to own this issue, to focus on what we have now, over two dozen russian nationals and companies that have been targeted by mueller. It seems like some real work is being done there to sort of unwind what happened during the 2016 elections, but its hard to for this administration to focus on that or do anything
of New Washington rules. So we dont Know If Mueller will abide by that traditional thinking. But peop
of new washington rules. so we don t know if mueller will abide by that traditional thinking. but people who know him say he is a traditionalist. he wants to do this by the book. that means, you know, labor day is creeping ever closer. we have about a month. the president s team is certainly aware of that, you know, traditional deadline. so they sense that the clock is ticking down to could be ticking down to something. and i was told this morning that it is what we have talked about so many times around this table and elsewhere, and that is the president, even as he says and is forced to say last week that russia meddled in america s election, that the minute he believes the minute he gives an inch on that, then the conversation shifts to the legitimacy of his presidency. he would rather have the public fight and the dialogue about meddling rather than the legitimacy of his presidency. so that s what a trump source said to me just this morning. manu, i want to ask you about some
tested and it s not in question. nixon was forced to produce the tapes and bill clinton was compelled to participate in a civil, not a criminal but a civil case. so the idea that the president could be subpoenaed is not open to question. harris: let s go to the white house correspondent kevin corke on the north lawn. good afternoon. what himes said is this is never tested. so we don t know if mueller will try to subpoena the president and we don t know what the courts might say moving forward. from the white house perspective, they would take this to the u.s. supreme court. the president has been forceful in his criticism of the mueller team to have the anti-trump partisans and operating far afield from original mandate.