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
Conversation or george w. bush ever sitting down and having a conversation about private matters or with a special prosecutor. we didn t have the russians knee-deep in our election and dozens and dozens of meetings between obama s guy or bush s guy, pick any guy, the way we ve seen with this administration. look, it took a federal court order for bill clinton to be required to sit down and have a conversation with ken starr and his team. they refused to do it without a federal court order. that s a fact. no. he was subpoenaed, and it went away. clinton never required a subpoena to do it. of course he required it. they had to go to court to require the president to do this. no. the subpoena wound up going away. he wound up complying. now everybody is saying that was a mistake according to your legal reckoning. he should have never done it. so which is it? look, bill clinton was the former attorney general of arkansas, the governor, a yale-educated attorney, and he gets stuck
Required to sit down and have a conversation with ken starr and his team. they refused to do it without a federal court order. that s a fact. and donald trump has said no. he was subpoenaed, and it went away. clinton never required a subpoena to do it. of course he required it. they had to go to court to require the president to do this. no. the subpoena wound up going away. he wound up complying. now everybody is saying that was a mistake according to your legal reckoning. he should have never done it. so which is it? look, bill clinton was the former attorney general of arkansas, the governor, a yale-educated attorney, and he gets stuck on the word is. he gets stuck on the word is. bill clinton ultimately lost his law license for lying to the special prosecutor. so? under oath and was disbarred. right. on the word is. if you are an attorney, why would you ever recommend to your client that you sit down and have a conversation that you re not required to have w