The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, lets be clear and fair. Anger, ego, incompetence, thats not enough. The higher bar here is corrupt intent in a persons mind. So mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. And tonight trumps lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, theyre not accepting this full interview yet. So theyre using two tactics. Leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio callin show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. We give you the unusual scene this morning. Rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay sekulow on sekulows r
defended by the justice department and its lawyers. quote, stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years recorded in american history is that presidents are not kings. so that s one avenue. also tonight the supreme court stepped in and issued a stay on a subpoena from congress for eight years of the president s financial records. this comes amid another case percolating through the supreme court where trump s lawyers are asking the court to look at a ruling in which the president has been directed to hand over his tax returns to the manhattan district attorney cy vance. to talk through these i want to bring in mimi rocah and nick akerman. let s start with judge jackson s ruling in this district court. it s a long ruling and it s quite goes right to the point. she writes however busy or essential a presidential aide might be and whatever their proximity to sensitive domestic the president doesn t have the power to excuse him or her from taking action that the law
you re trying to hit in responding to the special counsel? look, we don t have an internal deadline. mayor, i know you ve said and i ve said we want to see this come to closure soon here. mayor? yeah, we do. yeah, it s about time that it ends. we do not want to run into the november elections. so back up from that. this should be over with by september 1st. trump s lawyers, using their public profiles on a radio show to leak their negotiations in realtime and create more media content. that is what s happening right now. now here was their discussion of the big enchilada, the trump interview. if there s going to be an interview, let s have it. he s got all the information he needs. the interview will provide nothing in addition to what he already has. so he can write his report. we have been willing to say here s the answer he will give and we ll be stuck with it. and of course the question will be, look, we have an ongoing dialogue with the office of special counsel in a
aides that she felt were undermining her and shutting her out. there was a concerted effort by chief of staff john kelly to really limit access to the president in the oval office. so i think she probably had a lot more access early on in the white house, saw that diminish. that really upset her and it ended with her being escorted off the white house grounds for trying to literally confront and call out the president for that. mike, you saw the important recording that we garnered from celebrity big brother in the introduction to the segment and i want to play for you some earlier omarosa because it s not like any of this couldn t have been predicted when it goes to donald trump s judgment about who he wants to let in run the government, be paid by our tax dollars and have access to all sorts of private interactions. this is a person who has prided herself and mr. trump on settling scores. take a look. every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to president trump.
up to the supreme court where trump is currently trying to install a hand-picked judge known for his skepticism of the power of prosecutors like bob mueller. so let s get to it. i m joined by l.e. honig, joyce vance and mike lupica. i ll begin with you. you ve tried many cases and been around many cases. have you ever seen live leaks of interview negotiations on a call-in show. no, i ve never seen anything like it. i think what s happening is there s a chess game getting under way. rudy giuliani is making these demands on conditions for an interview that are really just outrageous. he wants written questions. i ve done hundreds of witness interviews. i ve never once submitted a written question. it defeats the whole purpose. you need to size the person up. you don t just want their lawyer to turn out some lawyerly