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also tonight, one big question about the big summit with north korea. will it even happen? we begin with talks of the president talking to robert mueller. dana bash joins us now. what have you learned about this? >> evan perez, gloria borger and i have learned that the president's legal team is trying to narrow the scope of any special interview with the special counsel and narrow it to russia-related matters that occurred before trump was elected president. now, our sources are telling us that in order to try to avoid a standoff, one possibility they're thinking about is limited trump interview plus written answers to questions that the special counsel clearly wants to ask about things happening during the president's time in the white house, like obstruction of justice. we know that is something the special counsel has been asking people about. >> is there any indication this will actually work, that mueller is willing to cut a deal, or is this just stuff that the legal

team is kind of floating out into the public as a way of, i don't know, influencing something? >> that's a great question. first of all, the answer to that question is obviously this is something that the legal team is trying to get out into the public, or at least entertaining in the public as a way to try to push robert mueller and his team along in this negotiation. and our sources have cautioned us that when both sides are talking, they are just inching toward some agreement. and that's actually the way it was described to us. but mueller has clearly suggested that he's not interested, for example, in the written answers to questions that trump's legal team is suggesting. so, look, there could be a standoff on that, and this case may very well go straight to the supreme court if they can't resolve these issues about whether and when and how the president talks to robert mueller's team. >> what type of interview are president trump's attorneys pushing for? >> well, i mentioned the

in-person or oral interview would be about pre-presidency, and they're trying to get the written questions. but another really interesting thing that we were told about is that the president's team is demanding, really, that there will be and should be an audio recording if there is any, you know, in-person question and answer with the president, because as one source said to me, they want to make sure that everything that is said is -- by everybody is recorded and they have it, transcript of every "t", every "i" that is crossed and dotted, so they have it for legal history and legal purposes. >> asha, is there any way you think robert mueller would go for this idea, or is it nothing?

>> this is more spaghetti they're throwing on the wall and hoping it will stick. i think what they're playing is a game of constitutional chicken. i don't think mueller is going to blink. he wants an interview, and he wants to do it one-on-one and in person. and if he can't get that, i think he will issue a subpoena. and i think rudy giuliani's team needs to be real careful. because if this goes to court, the issue of whether the president can be subpoenaed is, in many ways, inextricably tied up with whether the president can be indicted. that is a legal question that's not been settled, ever. that could be something that's an unintended consequence of something that gets challenged in court that may not go in the president's favor. and if that happens, that opens up a whole new can of worms. >> ryan, do you ever see mueller not agreeing to not asking

questions about possible obstruction of justice? >> if the subject of your investigation is the obstruction of justice, i would think mueller would want to ask questions about obstruction of justice. he's basically asking him to shut down the part he's most interested in. he's saying obstruction, you can't ask about that. i think anything on trump's side is for public consumption, right? if there's something they would be privately telling mr. mueller, i don't think they would leak it to us or anyone else. so i think what he's doing here, he's trying to seem, trump's legal team is trying to put arguments on the table for his defenders to say, huh, look at this. the white house made a reasonable deal, and if mueller rejects it and subpoenas him, they'll be able to see mueller wants to go to the extreme, the president made him a reasonable offer. >> you have to hand it to

trump's legal team for trying to get this out to the public forum. the problem is this will be handled by robert mueller, and you have to hand it to them by trying to limit the size, the scope, the timing, the duration. because of president trump's contempt for the judicious -- judiciary, and disregard for the truth, it makes sense they do this because it puts him in legal jeopardy. i think they're doing the right thing to try to limit the size and scope of this. they'll have difficulty doing that. this is all in robert mueller's hands. he can tell him to go pound sand if he wants to. >> do you think it's smart to play this out publicly like they did? >> sure. can the president be subpoenaed? of course, he can. i was the worst law student in the world and i know. nixon was subpoenaed, and he turned over the tapes that he knew incriminated him. president clinton testified twice in front of ken starr,

once in 1995 about his finances, and once in 1998 about his personal life. no one is above the law. this is an incredibly easy case for mueller to win. i think trump has a track record of bending people to his will. he got that white house doctor, who is an admiral, to embarrass himself. get out there and say trump is 230 pounds. trump's left leg is 230 pounds. please, doc. but he's not going to be able to bend mueller to his will. he can try, but he's going to lose, he's going to have to testify, or take the fifth. >> it seems earlier michael zelden was on, kristin, and he kept referring to the other lawyers on the president's team other than giuliani as the real attorneys, and giuliani is the public face of the legal team. do you think there's truth in that? >> i mean, that seems to be the role giuliani was playing.

it seemed from the very beginning he chose giuliani not for his legal insight, but more toward the fact that he'll go out and be pugilistic. he acts like president trump, in many ways. he says things that are on his mind, he says things that aren't necessarily true, he makes crazy accusations. >> he's also a people that people recognize. >> and he's a star, i guess, to conservatives. it's not something you would attribute to lawyers. i think it's more about him just being willing to say anything and be bombastic. >> do you see mueller agreeing to these ideas? >> there is some benefit to mueller not having a long, drawn-out legal fight and these negotiations are typical. my view is, trump should do everything to avoid testifying. even if he's determined to tell

the truth, even in the scooter libby case, people said contradictory things about what was a relatively minor case. i think he should fight this in court, if it comes to that. it wouldn't surprise me if it breaks down along the lines they're trying to set up here. where he would have to talk about it during the campaign, but he would have a second privilege that he doesn't necessarily have to answer questions about obstruction. >> i think in this case, since the president of the united states won, he's not just some low-level bureaucrat. there are more equities here. if mueller can demonstrate there's some serious crime that

the president of the united states was the only witness to, it's a lockdown case. otherwise, it's going to be more ambiguous. >> you're saying in this case, the president shouldn't cooperat cooperate. >> i don't know what the crime is. >> that's what the prosecution investigated. let me explain, then you can reply. it's a lawful act for a president to fire an fbi director. if it's corruptly motivated, that's an abuse of power. that's not an indictable crime, it's an impeachable offense. it's a high crime or misdemeanor. >> where are you getting this from?

>> the constitution. >> you think it's illegal -- so when gerald ford pardoned richard nixon explicitly to stop any criminal indictment of him, he was obstructing justice and that was a crime? >> that's absurd. >> we're actually investigating potential acts, and there is a provision of the constitution which requires that the president take care that the laws be faithfully executed. to fire the fbi director precisely so that he can quash an investigation into himself or his associates is not faithful execution of the law. it's actually unconstitutional, obstruction is almost built into the constitution. >> the president can commit a crime, but just not by carrying out his lawful duties. it's an abuse of power, but it's

not indictable. >> i want to believe he's innocent. i want to believe there is no coordination. i want to believe the president has done nothing wrong. if your argument is correct and there was no obstruction, why would the legal team ask mueller to take obstruction of justice off the table? and why would they request before he was nominated to be taken off the table? >> because the great possibility of a crime here is to lie under oath. you want to limit his criminal exposure. most of the indictments have to do with people not telling the truth to the fbi. they're process crimes. if you're in any way a target, you want to limit their vulnerability. >> he is completely wrong. the president can commit a crime

while doing them with corrupt motive. if you can't be indicted, you don't have fifth amendment protection. so, he has to testify. >> they don't have a coherent legal strategy. they make these arguments that are actually self-contradictory. if you accept one, then he has to testify. >> the argument is, because there is no indictable crime, therefore, there's no need for him or there's no requirement to testify. or to be subpoenaed. >> if he can never be indicted, including for perjury, he can go in and give testimony. there's nothing that can go wrong. coming up, cohen's business

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taxi king got, he faced several charges and serious jail time. >> 25 years per count, and i think there were four counts. >> how much information would you have to have in order to get the deal he got? >> we are seeing the pattern again and again where people who are on the hook for pretty serious crimes end up with a sweet deal, almost no jail time. this guy actually owed $5 million in back taxes. i think it was reduced to $50,000. it's a good break. this means he has some information that will put more pressure on cohen, and i think the idea here is to get cohen to start cooperating. because he's the big kahuna that's going to have information they really want. >> and the taxi king is going to be the canary king. he's going to start singing like a canary. the judge said to him specifically, do you understand the nature of the benefit your attorneys have provided for you?

he said, yes, i do. because for him to be able to get away from such a long term to now basic probation, he's going to say anything and everything he knows about cohen, they know exactly what he knows and that's going to put pressure on cohen to say anything he knows about trump. >> we don't know, kirsten, that this could lead anywhere to the president. yes, it could very easily lead to cohen but it could actually end with cohen and some shady business practices. >> if he's that close to cohen, maybe cohen has told him things, maybe he knows things. i don't think that's necessarily what will happen. i think this is more concerning to michael cohen, frankly. anybody in the position to have somebody like that that's that close to them and knows that much, being ready to talk would be pretty scary. >> if you were president trump

tonight, do you think you would be concerned about this? >> we don't know what cohen is guilty of. if it's corruption in the taxi business, no, this won't imp implicate the president. if it's just tax evasion, and because mueller handed this off, it doesn't necessarily affect his case. >> they just give this guy a really, really nice deal. if i was the president, i might say, i hope that doesn't happen to michael cohen. if that case is settled which then allows him to testify in the mueller investigation. for the president this is just about a taxi business. >> is this a typical deal they would give somebody just to get michael cohen, or does it seem like they're trying to get somebody bigger than him? >> bigger than michael cohen, s

was the one talking to cohen every day. he probably knows about those dealings, but who knows what else he knows about. i think it's person to emphas e emphasize, mueller isn't the only person in the world that can open a case on the president. he has a mandate where he has to demand a certain scope of topics. and we already heard about the red line about trump's businesses. those might be out of the scope of mueller's investigation. i don't know necessarily that they are, but let's say they are. if the southern district starts uncovering things about the president's shady business past, they can open a case there. i don't think that's off the table. it doesn't mean he has to come and help mueller, it could spawn more cases just in the southern district. >> although it's part of his plea, he has to basically help the state and federal prosecutors. >> a lot. it seems to be a very sweet deal.

to me it says a lot about mueller. by my count this is the fifth guilty plea mueller has gotten in one year. byiran/contra, which went on for six and a half years -- >> it's not real a spinoff of mueller, depending how you count it. that's just one year. >> iran/contra they've gotten two by now, by one year. whitewater had one in its first year. so mueller, for all the complaining about him, he's moving rapidly on a whole host of fronts, and that's really impressive. >> trump rallied against the possibility that the fbi had inserted spies in his 2016 campaign. and the latest from hawaii, where lava is spewing rocks. we'll take you there.

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it would make every political event ever look like small potatoes. if they had spies in my campaign, during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. >> just moments ago the president fired off a pair of new tweets, using the word spy capitalized a total of three times. joining me, senator klobuchar, a member of the judicial committee. senator, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> the president's allies say, if there's no "there" there, what's wrong with having the department of justice look into this and settle it once and for all? >> well, i think you've already seen the fbi director, the intelligence director go meet over at the white house. they are looking into this. what concerns me here is even if you look at the nunes report out of the house, it's very clear that this investigation began when an aide to then-candidate trump, papadopoulos, was meeting with an australian diplomat and said there was dirt on hillary clinton that the russians had. even in the nunes report, he

says that is what started that information flowing to the fbi. even senator warner, who is a ranking member of the senate intelligence committee, said on the shows this weekend that he had not heard of anything about this. and there are always sources in intelligence, but the president appears to be alleging that there was actually a spy embedded in his campaign that in his words has infiltrated the campaign, and that is very different. again, i think the most important thing right now is there is an ongoing investigation being conducted by the former fbi director who was first appointed by a republican president who has great credibility from both sides of the aisle. and everyone from chairman chuck grassley, an ardent republican, on down in the senate, is to allow that investigation to be completed. that is the conclusion of senator warner and senator burr and we have a lot of bipartisan support for allowing this investigation to be completed in

the senate. >> do you disagree with the president, using his own words, that if there were spies in his campaign for political purposes, that would certainly be unprecedented and certainly alarming. >> no, that would be, but that is not what we heard. what we know is the how, and again, i'm quoting the nunes report. what actually began was an outside other country that got intelligence and, in fact, the russians, a foreign power, was getting involved in this. the president's own intelligence head has said, russia is getting bolder. and that's why there is an investigation about russia impacting the campaign. that's why that is the investigation that has credibility to move forward. >> if the confidential source

had been associated with the clinton campaign, would you have rejected that? >> could you repeat that? >> if a confidential source had been, you know, sent to talk to somebody who was working even on the periphery for the trump campaign and it was discovered, would you reject it? >> not if there had been this fact scenario where you have the russians trying to get involved in the campaign. the chairman of the clinton campaign actually had its one time. it's one time, one candidate, one political party. the other time, it will be the other. the evidence points to that the russians were involved in hacking into hillary clinton's campaign and doing something that was favorable to donald trump's campaign.

i think you should always do things on a bipartisan basis. my bigger concern is not who is at the meeting, but the possibility that classified information is given to the members, and if that were to ever get out there, first of all, that's a crime to put that information out there. but by miger probl-- my bigger problem is, going back to 9/11, we didn't have enough sources about what was going on in the world. there has been a major overhaul to try to get that information. to not be in silos, where do you get information from the sources? sources aren't going to go to our country and give us information. they'll go to other countries.

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today the president said a lot of people are saying they had spies in my campaign. but he's been pushing this idea for a while now. first it was the accusation that president obama tapped his phones in trump tower. then this tweet, from sunday.

i hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi/doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposes. and if any such demands or requests were made by people. back now with the panel. the president just continues to use this word, spy. when you hear the word, the idea of a spy infiltrating the campaign, it doesn't seem to be a confidential informant. it's another thing entirely. >> can you imagine, if you're vladimir putin, and the president has decided it's not russian spies he cares about, it's spies in his own

government, and that's what he wants people to talk about? putin must have thought this is the best investment of his reign in russia. >> and his base loves this, believes there are spies infiltrating the campaign. and they're eating this up, and this is tainting their view of this entire process. >> you usually does this stuff, you're right, for just that reason. i operate from the premise that he knows a lot more about this case than i do, right, and mueller knows more. he often will have these eruptions right before something bad is about to break. he's firing up his base for a reason. and i think he wants them to hold firm whenever the next big bombshell hits. >> rich, do you agree or believe that this is part of an effort by the president to undermine the mueller investigation?

>> it's a classic tactic presidents use against special counsels and independent counsels. there's obviously a reason to open a counterintelligence investigation against russia for their meddling in our election. what isn't so clear is there is reason to undertake a counterintelligence investigation against the trump campaign. it appears to have been on really flimsy ground and it's something i think we need to know more about. i'm fully in favor of the most transparent accounting we can have of the way the doj and the fbi handled both of those investigations in 2016. >> i don't know why it's on flimsy ground when they had reasons to believe that russians

were trying to infiltrate the campaign to find out what was going on. i don't understand what they were supposed to do. were they supposed to just sit back and do nothing? he talked about how the fbi was trying to do this to help the other campaign win. >> the fbi briefed the trump campaign in august. >> an informant is a kind of spy. obviously there is no one infiltrated and was embedded in the campaign. >> but that is what he's saying. >> if it was the opposite, the democrats would be outraged. >> you don't want your adversary

to know what you know. so you don't walk in and say, we opened up this case on russian spies. you say, you may be approached by russian agents. please call us. did anybody call? no. the fbi doesn't spy. they catch spies. they did exactly what they are supposed to do. and what we should be asking is, why were these four people there to begin with? >> this is the problem, though. russia was and is our adversary. the trump campaign was not an adversary. you have high-level officials going crazy on twitter and ma making it clear they consider a domestic campaign their adversary. >> you open up investigations on individuals. a crossfire hurricane is kind of an umbrella name for a number of

subcases that were on individuals likely connected to russia. this is a standard investigation that probably followed additional cases because it followed activity. >> what are the majority of the people that have been indicted? mostly russians. you just said the fbi was going after the trump campaign other than russians. >> i'm saying it's a problematic mindset. >> well, he assaults truth first. the fbi cleared hillary, trashed her, and tipped the election to the favor of her opponent.

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>> are you surprised it's run into these obstacles? >> i think it will happen. it may not be june 12th in singapore, it might be july 12th, august 12th. kim jong-un, the north korean ruler, has a real incentive to talk to the united states. and because of that, he's going to make it happen. and of course he'll make it happen. you have two leaders wanting to be in the same room, shake hands. it will happen. >> the president was saying kim jong-un's attitude shifted after talking to the leader of china. >> this is important because he calls out the chinese for sanctions busting. this is significant for us. last year, president trump said, i'm going to go easy on china for trade, because they're helping on north korea. now you've got these trade talks going at the same time. i think trump will lower the boom on trade. we have the leverage to do that.

the crises will intersect and feed off of each other. >> do you think south korea oversold what they were trying to do in here? >> yes, he probably did that. we also have to remember that we have the leverage, even short of this, not only on the russians but on him. trump can do this. that's why he can say, the meeting won't happen but it will still work out. i think he's thinking of sanctions down the road, especially on chinese banks. >> do you think the president has a lot riding on this? did he put too much on it? >> the date is not important, denuclearization is. i think we have to give the president credit. he has gotten north korea to the table further than any other president has in decades, so i think we have to give him credit for that. i think it is important ideally if we would have had all these concessions in place prior to announcing when we were going to have the summit, but i think it's critical for us to be very firm on what exactly do we mean on denuclearization. it has to be complete and

verifiable, irreversible. irreversible. >> you're saying get north korea to the table. but north korea has always wanted one-on-one talks. gordon, am i wrong? one-on-one talks with an american president. has the u.s. gotten anything in return for agreeing to have the talks? >> at this point, we haven't really made concessions. you're absolutely right. when you have trump and kim in the same room, that is a big concession to the north koreans, because that's legitization. i know the president tries to downplay it, but that's true. however, the north koreans have given up a lot. all the pledges that moon jae-in has told us that kim jong-un made. those are markers that president trump and the international community can hold the north koreans to. that's really important for us. >> modify somewhat the joint exercises with south korea. isn't that a concession to north korea?

>> well, it is. and of course we did that for the winter olympics because the south koreans wanted us to. they anticipated moon asking for those exercise to be postponed, which is what we did anyway. >> but he has said -- the president has set the bar for this agreement in the way he has analyzed and criticized the iran deal. >> oh, yeah, big time, big time. >> he thinks it's the worst deal in iran where iran has exported over 90% of the fissile material. even the united states government says they're complying. and yet our president says that's a bad deal. gordon, how do you get a deal better? if the iran deal is terrible how does the president get a better deal with north korea? >> i think iran falls down on inspections because they could have been tougher. this whole issue over can you inspect military bases, which is a real live controversy. it's got to be clear any deal

president trump arrives at has to be first of all we inspect your military basis. >> what does kim say than? >> they don't want that, of course. we not only have to inspect them continually, that is going to be the big sticking point. >> in a summit like this where it's two presidents, two leaders, the dictator and president trump, isn't isn't all the work done? all the detail work is done in days and weeks and maybe months afterwa afterward. so they may come up with a framework for something, but there's -- the devil is in the details. >> yeah, normally the summits are worked out where basically the deal has been struck, and the two leaders meet and they just sign. for instance, that happened with moon jae-in and kim jong-un on april 27th. this one's completely different. >> right. >> you have the summit first and then you work it out later. that's not a criticism, but it is saying that this is a very unconventional way of doing things. >> we have to take a break. thank you all for that. stay with us.

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from the fissures. what happened? >> arnnderson, we're talking abt a fissure that was violently exploding every one or two minutes, sending hot, molten lava in every direction. darryl clinton, he is 57 years old, he was there to protect two of his friends' homes. we were there to interview him. this was not a fun place to be. even walking up to the house was a life and death game of frogger. and clinton was staying there virtually around the clock for almost a week. he was armed with a fire extinguisher, a garden hose and some strategically placed buckets to put out fires if lava hit the house. lava bombs came through the court of appealing in two different places. they broke a window. they took out the septic tank, but none of this seemed to faze darryl clinton. >> this lava bomb came and hit right here, we put that fire out. >> the first day? >> very first day. yeah this one here. >> did that not make you think, hey i shouldn't be here?

>> no. we saw it coming. you might want to step back. >> reporter: so what was amazing as you heard there anderson, he seemed to know almost instantly based on the sound the fissure was making whether he could relax or whether we should be taking cover. but just a day after we recorded that interview, he wasn't paying attention for just a few minutes on the phone when a lava bomb came flying and hit him in the leg. it was about the size of a bowling ball. luckily his ex-wife was there to take him to the hospital. she said the intense heat of the lava somehow cauterized the wound there, stopped it from bleeding as much as it might have. the intense heat also tarted his porch on fire. luckily a neighbor came to put that out. >> that's incredible. that's awful. how is he doing? i assume he is still in the hospital? >> reporter: yeah, we visited

him today anderson and he is in surprising good spirits, especially considering the fact that he has a rod in his leg. he'll need more surgery on top of the two he's already had. bottom line is he knows he's lucky. >> i wonder if you recognize the fact that had this have hit you somewhere else, you might be dead. >> yeah, i've thought about it a couple times and it just scares me to think about it. it could have also missed me and went between my legs too. i think about that more, wouldn't that have have been nice. >> reporter: now the owners of these homes according to clintons say they are immensely grateful for what he did, of course he didn't have to be there. clinton says he obviously regrets getting hurt, but he doesn't regret staying to protect those homes. to his credit, anderson, both of them are still standing. >> just incredible.

scott, please be careful. just extraordinary what's happening there. we'll continue to follow it. thanks very much for watching "360." that's all the time we have tonight. i'll seal you tomorrow night. time to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts right now. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. we're live in washington for you. our breaking news tonight, sources telling cnn president trump's lawyers are trying to limit the questions robert mueller might ask the president in an interview. they want the special counsel to agree not to question trump about -- wait for this -- anything he's done in office. which doesn't sound like a deal mueller would take since it would mean not asking the president about the firing of james comey and possible obstruction of justice. and we've got more breaking news tonight. this on president trump's fixer michael cohen. one of cohen's business partners, a russian immigrant known as the taxi king has