it's in many cays the closest look inside the mueller investigation and what the special counsel wants to know. going to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts now. this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. we've got more on the major breaking newings tonight. on the russian investigation we're learning robert mueller has nearly 50 questions he wants to ask president trump, that's according to the new york times. which obtain the list of the question on trump's ties to russia and whether he obstructed justice. those questions also touch on the president's businesses. his discussions with his fixers, michael cohen as well, about a moscow real estate deal. there's a lot to get to. our justice correspondent is evan perez. senior white house vrpt is jeff

zeleny. michael the investigate correspondent at yahoo news. evan i'll start with you. what do we know about these questions and where do they come from? >> they or ridge nate with the mueller team a month ago. they laid out four different groups topic of questions if he agreed to sit down with an interview of the mueller investigator. these particular interviews of the "new york times" tonight essentially note that the president's lawyers took, they made these questions up based on what the mueller team was asking. it's a pretty good, i think, representation. we wrote a story about a month ago in which we described the four main topics. to see the specific questions is very intriguing. a lot of it has to do with obstruction of justice but there's a lot of them, 25% of

the 50 or so questions that have to do with whether or not the trump campaign was legally coordinating with russia. what this tells us is that the subject of collusion, despite what you hear from the white house, the fact the president, 15 times a day tweets out that there was no collusion, it tells us robert mueller is not don with the collusion question. one of the questions in particular is one in which the question says, what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by paul manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign? here so far, don, we have not heard of any particular connection, you know, the charges that paul manafort is facing here in the district of columbia and in virginia. they don't have anything to do with russia but his business in ukraine. it might indicate they have additional information, of course, paul manafort's director, rick gate is now

cooperating with the special counsel. another thing is about the 2015 trip to russia. what relationship did you have with the aguilars and the russian government officials? the aguilars are very wealthy developers in russia. the son of the the singer aguilar is the one who helped put together that trump meeting, has now become the center of a lot of questions that the robert mueller team has been asking of witnesses that's gone before those investigator issues don. >> a number of questions you read had to do with timing, also the meeting in trump tower with the attorney. we're going to go through a lot of these questions so evan stand by. our correspondents and i are going to go through them for you and try to figure out what this means for the investigation of the president. jeff, good evening to you. many of the questions are asking the president about his own words and his tweets. >> don, no question about it. it's almost like a timeline of

what happened, you know really day by day or key moment by key moment in the president's own words. there is volumes upon voluming of what the president has said online through interviews, o ot things. some of the questions, one specific one was on pai 12, 2017, what did you mean by this? of course, that's when the president, after he had the meeting with james comey, he said, look, there are tapes of our conversation. he said, he better hope that -- you know, he said it honestly, there are tapes of our conversation. so clearly the special counsel's office wants to ask the president in many certain instances what he was thinking in the moment and how that fits into the bigger piece of the puzzle here. the president's own words, actions, tweets will be front and center of this. we've asked the white house for a reaction and comment, we have not heard from them an answer.

but, don, we do no there is very much an active consideration discussion with the president sit down and testify. he has said he would, he would like to, he would like to get it over with. his lawyers have been, like, no so fast. that is still a question mark here at the white house. >> i'm wondering if these questions now will be public if that'll make a difference. stand by jeff. here's one question about michael flynn. what did you know about phone calls mr. flynn made with the runner ambassador in late 2016? how was the decision made to fire mr. flynn on february 13 of 2017? talk to me about what's bind these questions. >> one thing that could be behind it, don, is don't forget that president trump asked james comey to let flynn go, to let him go. and so, what really is important

is at that point, what did trump know about flynn's potential liability. i think that's one reason why there may be an interest there. what did trump know about what flynn was doing and when did he know it. that would be one thing that would come to mind. >> all right. juliet there's more, what did you know about sally hates meeting about mr. flynn after the investigation? what was done to reach out to mr. flynn to seek immunity and possible pardon? anything striking here? what is mueller after? >> this is a focus on obstruction of justice. after the the fact after he fires flynn, what are the communications to get flynn not to talk. remember now, flynn is talking and telling us his story. the totality of all of these questions is not the obstruction of justice. these questions are jaw dropping because everything is on the table. i mean, it is -- whether it's

collusion, cooperation, whether the president's comprised, the entirety of these questions, including the ones about flynn, suggests that mueller does not believe it's all a coincidence and that, i believe is the take away. this is not just an obstruction case, this is still at the core of the finances and election and potential collusion. >> okay, michael, the first question i had when i saw this cross i said who leaked these? do you think this was leaked by someone from team trump? >> well, look it's hard to imagine anybody on mueller's team leaked them. and given what the obvious impact of this leak report, very -- and i agree with juliet -- jaw dropping report, is that -- strengths the case for those on the president's legal team saying you can't go in for this interview.

in fact, it's hard to imagine any criminal defense lawyer seeing a list of questions like that who would let his client speak when there would be so much at risk. because, as everybody's mentioned, these are so broad and so wide-ranging and, you know the likelihood is that buried in there is -- you know, millioner's going to -- mueller's going to know the answers to a lot of these and the president would be exposed to perjury if he lied. >> michael, do you think they're spooking to the president through the television as so often said for people who are par of his administration? >> yeah, i think that one never knows. part of this has to be people trying to persuade the president by building pressure for him not to cooperate with mueller. the other thing -- the other take away from this is it makes it crystal clear this investigation isn't going to end any time soon which is what rudy

julianni seems to be suggesting. he can wrap thing up if a few weeks, he was talking about obstruction. clearly every one of those questions are about the president's past, his business dealings in russia and his various relationships. every one of those is interzero one with the question of obstruction. was there something the president was trying to obstruct to prevent the public and the prosecutors from knowing about? so, mueller can't wrap up the obstruction issue until he knows the answer to all these other maps. >> so, evan just looking over the questions, can you tell from these questions whether mueller considers the president a subject of this investigation? remember, there was a -- you know he was told that he wasn't a target but he was a subject. can you tell from these questions? >> well, i think clearly he is a subject. i think it's very easy for you to go from subject to target,

that's the reason why as mike was just saying, it's so easy and so difficult -- so difficult for any lawyer to see these questions and think, okay, this is a good idea for you to go in and do this interview. look, i think when we reported on the story about a month ago about the four main groups of topics, with we knew there were 50 questions the team had come up with based on their conversations with the mueller team, the conversations as we were talking to people really made it clear there was a lot of agitation inside the white house. the legal team, i think looked at what mueller was laying out and they thought, boy, we can't do this. so, this really chrisalizes why there was a lot of agitation. it was after john dowel left the legal team. don, this explains a lot of what we were seeing and sensing behind the scenes of a lot of agitation about where this

investigation could be headed. and the danger signs that were flashing really before their eyes. >> jeff you're able to -- just from being there -- sort of admonish a monitor and predict the mood of the white house and how they're going to respond to this. no response so far because this just broke. i'm sure this morning or maybe in a tweet tonight we may be hearing something about this. >> certainly possible. the president was having dinner outside the white house earlier this evening. about the time this was coming in, he was at his hotel of course, a couple blocks away from the white house. since then it has been very silent around here. you have to -- certainly, i think anything this does is a reminder. the president can say, witch hunt, hoax, this investigation's over as much as he wants, this underscores how it is not. most of his agents and adviser, all of them in this building recognize that. if someone on his side would

have leaked these or let them out, it is a wake-up call if he still wants to and is eager to sit down. i think this certainly makes it look like, look, this is not at the end. this is a long ways to go. >> jeff, thank you very much. everyone else stick around, we have a lot more to come on our breaking news. the list of questions robert mueller wants to ask president trump. that's according to the "new york times." we're going to read to you some of the questions that mueller wants to ask the president. that and what the special counsel wants to ask about the former fbi director james comey as well. we'll be right back. as you can clearly see,

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so, we're back with our breaking news tonight. it is huge news and it might be the best window yet into there russian investigation. the special counsel robert mueller has a list of nearly 50 questions that he wants to ask president trump on his ties to russia, obstruction of justice, on his business and family and closest advisers. back with me the panel. i'm just going to read something from the "new york times" that sums up what this is about and i'll have questions for you guys. the opening inquiries attempt to -- to examine his relationships with his family and closest advisers.

they deal chiefly with the president's high profile firings and security advisers. his treatment of attorney general jeff sessions and a meeting between campaign officials and russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. juliet that sums it up. >> yes, it does. some of the specific questions are phrased really interesting. remember, this is a transcript so we don't know the specific questions. they talk about the trump's campaign outreach to the russians, not what we have come to believe that the russians tried to penetrate the trump campaign. as i was saying earlier, we don't know what the verb or the word is, colluded, cooperated, what are. this issue is not going away in terms of the campaign. look, the totality, i just want to make this clear, is that the president is in some trouble if he can't answer these in a way that put to rest some of these

questions, but we are also in trouble. behind these questions is the russians, and their capability and success of penetrating a campaign of a president of the united states. and nothing has been done to stop them in 2018 or 2020. and we do not know what the russians will do to keep that fact secret. so, this is not just about trump, it's about us. it's worth reminding people that this may seem, you know, legal lisk, it's actually quite, you know, it's quite ex set sentence shl for us that's going on. >> let's go right to michael. there's questions about comey. what was your opinion of mr. comey during the transition? what did you think about mr. combmy's intelligence bereaving on january 26, 2016 about russian interference? what was the purpose of your february 14, 2017 meeting with

mr. comey and what was said? what was the purpose of your january 27th 2017 dinner with mr. comey and what was said? so, the special counsel, michael, wants answers on why comey was fired. question about the dossier. the loyalty test. asking comey to let the investigation into flynn go. what's your reaction? >> that goes straight into obstruction. what was on the president's mind when he fired comey and began the process to decide to fire comey. we talked about it in russian roulette, the book i have out right now, really begins with that january 6th briefing. this is president elect trump at that point, but the intelligence chiefs are briefing him about the russian interference, examine, they all leave the room except for comey, comey tells them about the synopsis of the

allegations in the dossier and after that, what comey didn't know, but which we report about in the book is, the president blows up. he believes its blackmail. he believes comey's trying to shape him down to let him know that he's got something on the president or the president elect at that point and that's where the seeds are planted for the firing of jim comey. and it's likely that mueller already understands that, knows that, and it does lead to questions about everything the white house said publicly about the reasons for firing -- >> evan i'm wondering, now that these questions are out there can the president just reply to the questions on paper? they're out there, he can answer them on paper, he doesn't have to come in and be disposed sod to speak? >> yeah, don that's the argumthe

making. we don't know if mueller is amenable to that. it doesn't seem like that's likely. the reason you ask questions and want to interview someone is because you want to see body language. you don't want to give them a take-home test and have someone else fill out their ans for them. what this sets up, the question is you asked -- you read just now about comey, really sets up an interesting clash here. we know comey's version events. the mellows are now out, he's got this book out. we know his version, he's been on interviews everywhere. this sets up where, whose version of the truth you're going to believe here, comey's or the president's? that's where wrong that's so much agitation in the white house. >> what did you mean in your

interview with lester hot about mr. comey and russia? that's where president trump told lester hot he was thinking about the russian investigation when he fired comey. let's listen. >> regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey, knowing that it was a real good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself. i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story, an excuse by the democrats having lost an election that they should have won. >> renad doe what's your reaction? >> clearly many of these questions, don are meant to try to pin down the president as to what his intent was when he was firing comey. look, the president can fire the fbi director for le in a minugi reasons, for example he did a bad job. if you're firing the fbi director in order to stop an investigation into you or your friends that is obviously

obstruction of justice. and so, all these detailed questions about tweets and conversations and what did he think of comey before these meetings and so on. obviously this question about the interview, they're all meant to rye to pin down the president as to what his intent was. i will tell you, don, the fact that so many of these questions deal with intent and obstruction, tells me -- and really it's a conclusion oouf drawn -- it's likely mueller is viewing in on obstruction. >> everyone stick with me. we got a lot more. an elite list of questions mueller wants to ask president trump. what does he want to ask about attorney general jeff sessions? that next. as a control enthusiast,

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. we're back with our breaking news tonight, nearly 50 questions robert mueller wants to ask the president to determine whether he obstructed justice. back with me now, evan, juliet, michael and renado. michael, these questions related to attorney general jefs

sessions. what did you think and do regarding the accuse l of mr. sessions? what effort did you make to try to get hem to change his mind? did you discuss whether mr. sessions would protect you in reference attorney general? what did you think and react to the news and appointment of special counsel? the special counsel still has a lot to ask him about that. >> right. don, he has a public record. the president has tone about it. he spoken about how he believe erick holder, the previous attorney general actually did a good job in protecting president obama and he sort of wishes that sessions would have done that for him, that's the insinuation he made. i think the special counsel is armed with a lot of the president's own public statements, tweets, his excellents that he's made to his friends which are then linked to the press. there's a lot of material to work with. the fact is jeff sessions has no

choice but to recuse himself in this investigation, simply because he played a role in the campaign, and the justice department rules make it clear he has to recuse himself. the president doesn't buy this but that is the truth. he's been mad at the attorney general for basically doing what he had to do. he was required to do under the rules of the justice department. >> renado i have to ask you, when you're dealing with obstruction, i'm not an attorney but that's what i hear from the attorneys and legal folks here, you have to establish intent correct? what is the intent? and i'm wondering if the president's tweets, what he said is that going to come into play when they're trying to figure out what his intent was behindfully of these meetings and questions or his actions? >> no question. so what mueller has to prove is that president had corrupt intent, in other words the intent to unlawfully interfere with or impede the

investigation. the way you prove as a from t prosecutor, somebody's intent, you don't have a magic telescope that sees inside their brain. you look at their words and actions over a long period of time and you ask a jury to form conclusions about the person's intent from those words and actions. so, for example, why was the president so angry at jeff sessions for doing what he was legally required to do by recusing himself? why did he talk about the attorney general protecting him? why did he fire james comey? why did he tweet about there being tapes during the conversations? all these specific questions that you are reading, don, relate to actions that could be used by a prosecutor to infer that the president was trying to act with the intent to impede the investigation. >> okay, michael, lot of questions related to the campaign's accord nation with russia. questions like there one, when did you become aware of trump

tower meeting? what involvement did you have in the communication strategy including the release of donald trump jr.'s e-mails? during a 2013 trip to russia, what communication and relationships did you have with the russian government officials? what conversations did you have with michael cohen? and others? what conversations did you have about the russian developments and the russian campaign? does this show michael, that the collusion is possibly still on the possible? >> absolutely. what's working behind these questions is, what does mueller know that the trump team doesn't in given the evidence -- the testimony he's gone from michael flynn, from rick gates, from

geor george pop lus. given that makes -- just an example of what could be lurking out there just in the last few days. the release from the white house committee intelligence points. there are data points and nuggets that fill in the blank, including the fact that michael flynn, in december 2015, and his son met with am ambassador kislyak at the private residence. that was further notation there was prior conflict between flynn and kislyak and raises questions about did they continue to talk during the campaign, not just after the president was elected during the transition. similarly, there's e-mail that flynn sends on july 14th, one week before the wikileaks release of the dnc e-mails

saying there are cyber activities that have happened and will happen in this election involving nation states and the dnc. that's pretty eyebrow raising e-mail, and remember, flynn has now cooperated, he's had to tell mueller everything. >> okay. juliet same question. conspiracy, possible conspiracy/collusion still on the possible? do you get these from these questions? >> absolutely. the fact the questions are being asked about the length, real estate deals, meetings that took place before the elections. there's a series of questions that if you are not trump but you know something that is going to make you nervous, that's the one about other cocon spiriters. who else knew about your plan to

fire comey. there are specific questions about kushner and -- this is how a conspiracy unfolds. everyone gets nervous about everyone else and if in fact there is a conspiracy to collude or cooperate or undermine an election, each person is going to eventually be out for themselves. the whole coconspirator, line of questions in what we just saw tonight are fascinating and will probably be terrifying to a bunch of people whose been outside of our focus lately. >> what's interesting to me is that, it said what communications did you have with cohen, and other russian developmenters during the campaign, we know two weeks ago his personal attorney's office, home and hotel room were raided by the fbi. that is factoring into these questions. talk to me about that, can you renado? >> well absolutely. what we don't know, and what's

really not in these questions is, what information does mueller have about some of these other categories? to me the most interesting thing that i gain from reading these questions, don, were you noted that all the questions about the obstruction and intent issues are very highly detailed. they talk about specific tweets, specific conversations. a lot of this stuff about collusion is very high level and vague. what did you know about this, what did you know about that, very proud topics. i find that interesting. a lot of this other stuff has been reported by the media at length, all these tweets, conversations and blow-ups. what mueller knows about the 2013 trip to russia, or conversations between him and cohen and so on, you know the president really probably doesn't know what mueller knows about these. so, i think they kept those very vague and high-level so they

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. here's our breaking news tonight, special council, robert mueller has dozens of questions he want to ask president trump to determine if he's obstructed just and to examine his tie with russia. i want to talk about this with patrick heelly, and pat broo necessary, sara westwood and michael zeldon who was mueller's special assistant at the justice department. good evening for all of you. frank, i want to start, what is your reactions the dozens of questions ruhler wants to ask the president. what do you think? >> it's shows nothing's off the table. there are questions that pertain to collusion, obstruction of justice. i think they're also a reminder

this investigation will not feel complete unless robert mueller has a chance to ask donald trump sot questions. whether he'll get to, remains to be seen but he wants to and are making plans accordingly. i'm going to stand you guys by. we have more breaking news. on the phone, representative adam shift whose a ranking member in the house committee. thank you for coming on and giving your reaction to this report. what do you think? >> i would certainly agree it's a broad list of questions. i'm glad it is as extensive as it is, it means the special counsel has been forced to agree with the warehouse to limit the scope of his questioning. there are some things notable that are left off the list that gives me concern. one is the area the president has tried to draw a red line around and that is the finances

of the trump organization. i think there ought to be questions about did the trump organization receive russian money, was russian money laundered through his properties? did deutsch bank, did he have knowledge of deutsch bank laundering russia's money? those are questions i think the president ought to be asked that i did not see on the list. there's also no questions about the nra doing one of the back challenges. there were other questions about kushner. but notably on the list were questions about the nra. there were a few areas that i think were excluded. what we do see on the list focuses a lot on obstruction of justice, i think for obvious reasons. a lot of those questions are going to be darn difficult for the question to answer. particularly, why if the justification was for the firing of james comey, was this

handling the clinton e-mail investigation, why had he been praising comey over that previously? these are going to be difficult for the president to explain away, i can understand his lawyer's reservation about having him talk to special counsel but special counsel needs to insist. >> congressman, i'm not assuming this is the entire list of questions and exact questions that are going to be asked but those are inquiries you'd like to be touched on? >> yes. it certainly -- the list that was put together looks like a very reasonable ask of the special counsel. those are all areas where, particularly, you know they shed light on the president's intent behind the firing of james comey, the degree which they might have floated pardons over people, is there internal revenue service and jeff sessions recused himself. all of that goes to whether he

was trying to obstruct investigation into liz own campaign. those are perfectly important appropriate questions to be asked. they were also questions on the collusion issue. there were some questions on the business in russia. that intriguing question about paul manafort, are you aware of any effort by your campaign, including -- and he's the only one he singled out -- paul manafort to obtain russia's assistance? that could mean a few thing, it can be to seek out the stolen e-mails from wikileaks, the roger stone inquiries. it could also allude to -- if these questions were obtained from the white house, they're not the questions that's written by mueller, they are the questions as rewritten as notes

taken by the white house lawyer -- >> it's a summation of the questions, absolutely. >> yeah. it could have been they were asking about manafort's outreach to a plan close to the kremlin, where he's trying to get money and offering information on the campaign. so, belled or it -- gar belled or it goes to something -- >> i supposed this question during my last page session. there was a lot of questions related to the campaign coordination with russia. when did you become aware of the trump tower meeting? what involvement did you have in the communication strategy including the release of donald trump jr.'s e-mails? during a 2013 to russia what communications did you have with government official nisi what communications did you have with

michael d. cohen, felix stater and others including relate estate developers during the campaign? that's about business relation. the one thing i asked the other panel, does it appear to you that the possible obstruction of justice, and possible collusion stale on the table? >> well, certainly. if the special council were at the point where he had reached the conclusion where there was no evidence of -- these questions wouldn't be necessary. there was evidence of collusion n that meeting in twum tower and the approach to george papadopoulos and the russian

previewing of those stolen e-mails in the trump campaign's effort to obtain this information. the president's own son saying he'd love to have the help of the russian government. it's perfectly appropriate and deemed necessary for the special counsel to ask about this. we write about a couple of these thing in a minority views we put out. >> did you get to ask the bulk of the questions to the people you interviewed? these are some specific to the president but it is the time of thing you would have asked if your hearings. >> yes, but it's also the type of things that witnesses refuse to answer. the perfect illustration is the cover-up the trump tower meeting, the false statements that came out, well this is only about adoptions. we ask about that. we asked don junior about his conversation with liz father where they concocted allegedly this false statement together,

he refused to answer. we asked picks about, she refused. we asked bannon about it, he refused. the republicans were more than happy to take knnone for the answers. there were also obscuring the fact that they prevented us to fining out the answer to very important questions about collusion. one of the ones we highlight in our report is, in the set-up to that trump tower meeting there are calls going back and forth between don junior and amy, the son of the russian donald trump -- >> you're talking about the block number two? >> the blocked number is a call that takes place -- an incoming call that takes place between two calls, between don junior and son of this russian. now the president used a blocked

number during the campaign. what we wanted to know is, okay who is this call from? the president's son claimed not to know, not to remember. that doesn't seem particularly credible but there's an easy way to find out. we could subpoena the telephone records but the republicans were unwilling to. they didn't want to find evidence of collusion so they ignored the evidence we found and played it impossible to fine out additional facts. >> congressman shift, appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thank you, don. 50 questions at least the special counsel wants to ask the president of the united states including russia, possible collusion, campaign interference. we'll be right back. ♪[upbeat music]

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>> we are back now with our breaking news. i want to talk to patrick, you heard, patrick, what the congressman said. what was your reaction? >> what stood out the most was his point about what bob mueller may know that is not reflected in these questions. we have michael flynn who has pled guilty. we have papadopoulos. his lawyers can prep him for these open-ended questions. but if the president goes into this interview and he starts talking the way he usually talks, which is veer very quickly into exaggerations, into falseho

falsehoods, into lies, whether he's going to ultimately be caught out by some piece of information that bob mueller knows because michael flynn has gwynn him some kind of evidence on this or rick gates, it's a very tricky situation for president trump to go into. and how do you prep president trump into this kind of situation, don? you know how he is. he's not someone who stooks to a script. he's someone who can get very proud and very defensive, and he can say things. >> that's. >> -- that's his personality. >> and his lawyers are arguing, do this in writing, we can vet it. but then you catch him out and say what have you got to hide? why are you afraid to sit down. bill clinton sat down with ken starr. what do you have to hide? and they may be able to essentially goad him into a very difficult situation. >> you talked about the people who pled guilty, george papadopoulos, mike flynn, this

is part of mueller's probe, not specifically connected all of them to the president. >> michael flynn ultimately and rick gates during the campaign, some of these questions -- would they have questions to the block number? he would know who that block number is? >> i would think so. if it's knowable, i think he would know it, sure. we don't know whether it's knowable, but if it's knowable, i think bob mueller will know it. and we should presuppose that with all of these questions. bob mueller has a lot of information. he's formed an opinion about sort of the time line or the essential core facts which he believes to be true. and now he's going to ask the president for his opinion about each of them. i don't think this is in any

way, shape or form, a perjury trap as some guests have sort of implied in the sense that they're going to try to catch him up in something. i think these are going to be fair and open-ended questions where the president if he's truthful should have no problem in avoiding any sort of perjury or false statements. he just has to be truthful. >> if he shows truth then there's no perjury to worry about. >> exactly. and there's some questions here, though, that are complicated. there's a question here, don, about sanction, whether there was any discussions with russians about sanctions. quid pro quo theory. >> i'm going to get to all of that. i need to get to sara. what's the biggest question you have for the white house tonight? >> well, i think the big question is whether president trump is going to sit down and answer these questions in person, make himself available for a long period of time to address all of them, or whether they're going to try to funnel the president's answers into

some kind of written response. obviously that's the approach his lawyers would prefer to minimize his legal exposure. we don't know how aggressively the mueller team is going to try to push to get the president to sit down with the special counsel. so it will be interesting to see whether the legal team feels with these questions in hand they can prepare the president adequately, or if they're still going to push to keep him away from that sitdown interview at all cost, even if they know walking through the door what it is mueller is going to be asking the president. >> i'm happy that you all sat here and had the interview with adam schiff and cut your interview short. robert mueller has 50 questions he wants to ask the president. that i list of questions leaked tonight. ♪

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a governor for all of california. >> we're lye with all the breaking news tonight. this is a big deal in the russia investigation. the special counsel robert mueller has nearly 50 questions he