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
Launched, should come to a close. and, look, we ve spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on an investigation we spend tens of millions of dollars watching him play golf every weekend. the money is not the issue, corey. yeah, but chris, the issue is this. this mueller investigation has had the opportunity now to interview everybody, to talk to everybody. except him, except the man in the middle. but the president didn t do anything, chris. i m not saying he did, but then why wouldn t he talk to mueller? how many times have you heard the president say, you see that guy plead the fif snth thth? that means he s guilty. if you ve got nothing to hide, you talk. how many times has he said, i want to sit down with mueller? so do it. man up and do it. i ll tell you this. i ve spoken to the president on numerous occasions where he s told me he has wanted to sit down with mueller. do it. but he s listening to his attorney. since when? you don t think his attorney
Money on an investigation we spend tens of millions of dollars watching him play golf every weekend. the money is not the issue, corey. yeah, but chris, the issue is this. this mueller investigation has had the opportunity now to interview everybody, to talk to everybody. except him, except the man in the middle. but the president didn t do anything, chris. i m not saying he did, but then why wouldn t he talk to mueller? how many times have you heard the president say, you see that guy plead the fifth? that means he s guilty. if you ve got nothing to hide, you talk. how many times has he said, i want to sit down with mueller? so do it. man up and do it. i ll tell you this. i ve spoken to the president on numerous occasions where he s told me he has wanted to sit down with mueller. do it. but he s listening to his attorney. since when? you don t think his attorneys tell him, don t tweet? you don t think his legal counsel are telling him to do things all the time that