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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. This will play out. Which, as of tonight, could serve as the headline for the status of everything. Still under investigation by the special prosecutor. Unclear how this will play out. Leading off our discussion now, joyce nance, former special prosecutor. And former counsel to the mayor of New York City and eugene robinson, Opinion Writer for the washington post. Hes an msnbc political analyst. And you are a former federal prosecutor also. What do you make of the giuliani conditions for the interview . Well, in fairness i was in the Civil Division of the u. S. Attorneys office. I will say that unfortunately giuliani has become someone whose career is not going to be looked at quite the same light as it was before this because he ....
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Rudy giuliani told politico today that the trump team wants to rule outofbounds about half of what Robert Mueller wants to discuss the president. Quote, we dont want questioning on obstruction. They would have to concede that. Robert mueller would not be allowed to ask President Trump what he said to james comey about the fbi investigation of michael flynn. James comey says that the president told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. The only area that the trump team would consider allowing is how donald trump and his campaign interacted with russians during the president ial campaign. A week after report ....
Mueller to accept those conditions? it really depends on what mueller thinks he needs out of this interview. and of course we don t know all of the cards that he s holding right now. but one thing prosecutors don t do when they need an interview with a witness, they don t negotiate because they have the subpoena power. and it is abundantly clear at least in my judgment that they don t plan on indicting the president because they are seeking this interview. according to giuliani and the president s lawyers, they have already said he is a subject, not a target. if mueller needs information that giuliani and the other lawyers aren t willing to seed them the authority to ask, they will simply issue a subpoena for the president and then let that run its way through the court process. how long would that take through the court process? you know, that s a really good question. it would depend on which grand jury they use. they could either go through d.c. or through virginia, which woul ....
Document, nothing. if there has been communication about this recently from the mueller team to the giuliani team, we have to believe rudy giuliani s account of that, which is an extremely difficult thing to do. but let s do it for the sake of this discussion. but the truth is we have no idea what communication has been going on. but if the giuliani conditions are what s being communicated to mueller, is there any way for mueller to accept those conditions? it really depends on what mueller thinks he needs out of this interview. and of course we don t know all of the cards that he s holding right now. but one thing prosecutors don t do when they need an interview with a witness, they don t negotiate because they have the subpoena power. and it is abundantly clear at least in my judgment that they don t plan on indicting the president because they are seeking this interview. according to giuliani and the president s lawyers, they have ....