vindman and former ambassador yovanovitch. they are on lone to the white house. president trump is suggesting dismissing them even as advisers firing witnesses could be viewed as reretaliation. the same day the president suggested he may testify in the impeachment inquiry. we learn the house of representatives is investigating whether he lied to special counsel mueller. president provided written answers to mueller s questions in the russia investigation. house lawyers say that need access to grand jury material following a series of revelations at roger stones trial. former deputy campaign chairman testified stone and trump talked about information that was coming that could help the campaign. but the president told mueller he didn t recall discussing wikileaks with stone. all right the supreme court
who broke expectations. first time, non-violent offender. think what manafort was facing. he didn t have anywhere near that, but the message was intact. can i speak about trump for a minute? his written answers to mueller, mueller asked him about his conversations, his multiple conversations with roger stone and the answers multiple times were, i don t recall the substance of those conversations. so you have to now go look back at those questions and the way he answered those questions and what roger stone is convicted of, and we ll see if this surfaces again post-presidency. i just want to stress that this is the same behavior. this is dirty tricks, these are dirty tricks, it s a climate of corruption, it s trying to acquire dirt on your opponents, it s part of american politics, but we shouldn t be proud of it. but it has a different meaning
we don t know that the investigation is over. the house will continue to investigate things like deutsche bank. and i think that the biggest lingering question now is trump compromised by the russians? because there s nothing else that logically explains his behavior and his deference towards vladimir putin. schiff has said that s one of the biggest things he wants to investigate. and i think we re losing sight of the fact that trump submitted written answers to mueller. were there any inconsistencies that mueller wanted to charge him with but couldn t because he s a sitting president? you would expect it to. there s so much out there we don t know. i think the biggest question is what explains the president s behavior throughout course of the campaign? is he compromised by the fact he was doing trump tower moscow?
likely that guiliani may be talking to the president a number of times and maybe getting different stories each time he talks to the president. and then the other lawyers are kind of going nuts over this. neil, i mean, if giuliani is now saying things that conflict with the president s written answers to mueller, how much weight would that carry in terms of mueller s efforts to get some sort of followup interview with the president? i think it can carry a lot. i think putting it mildly, rudy guiliani is not behaving like most lawyers, whether on tv lawyers or any other kind, certainly not a presidential lawyer. i mean, really it s like every sunday is now open mike night with rudy, and it s like, you know, what s he going to test out this time in terms of material? it will bomb and then the next day he s got to walk it back and we ve seen it now time and time again, but you know, one pattern that has emerged is, that first time, whenever he says something, those turn out to be true
something to that. but i think it really is more likely that guiliani may be talking to the president a number of times and maybe getting different stories each time he talks to the president. and then the other lawyers are kind of going nuts over this. neil, if guiliani is saying things that conflict with the president s written answers to mueller, how much weight would that carry in terms of mueller s efforts to get some sort of follow-up interview with the president? i think it can carry a lot. i think putting it mildly, rudy guiliani is not behaving like most lawyers, whether on tv lawyers or any other kind, certainly not a presidential lawyer. i mean, really it s like every sunday is open mic night with rudy and it s like, you know, what s he going to test out this time in terms of material? it will bomb and the next day he s got to walk it back. we ve seen it now time and time again. you know, one pattern that has emerged is, that first time he