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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. There. Its just bad weather, stay there, my friend. Rain, rain, rain. Thank you so much. Joining me now political reporter for the guardian and steph knight, reporter for axios. Ladies, thanks. Sabrina, is there any indication that were getting to the end, the final stretch of whether or not the president will submit to an interview with Robert Mueller . Weve been having the same conversation for months as to what the scope of that interview might look like and the ongoing negotiations with the president s legal team and an interview that would be partially done in person. And then there would perhaps be some questions in written format. So it doesnt really seem like much progress because its something is that we were talking about earlier this year. Whats quite clear is that, the president s legal team does not want him to sit down with the < ....
That the communications they had were innocuous. but he was also offered a role on what would have been trump s transition team. and when butina was introduced to him, that is how he was introduced, someone who would have influence in the forthcoming administration if trump were in fact interested. so it s quite clear she was interested at a minimum getting closer to people within the trump campaign universe. and potentially the forthcoming administration. presumably, so you could try and peddle some influence. how about you, stef, what s your take on this? it s just another example of someone connected to russia that did have interactions with people on the trump campaign. if you kind of zoom out and look at how many instances have been popping up, similar stories to maria. and i think this is going to go somewhere. we re going to keep seeing more of these incidents come up. and it s clear that she was ....