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>> does this devastation change your opinion on climate change at all, mr. president? >> no. i have a strong opinion. i want great climate. >> sunday, november 18th and "saturday night live" has new details on why amazon picked new york and northern virginia for its new headquarters. >> he attacked me repeatedly on twitter but i chose our new locations because they were ideal for growing business. not just to make donald trump think about how i'm literally hundred times richer than he is. >> our msnbc legal analyst and national intelligent reporter and our public policy teacher. there's been more than 30 guilty please in the russian investigation so far. this weekend president trump says he's answered robert mueller's questions and he plans to get them to the special counsel this week. with democrats taking over control of the house of representatives in just a few weeks time congressman adam schiff the next chairman of the

house intelligence committee will focus on new attention on the ties between russia, the trump campaign and the trump organization. suffice to say pressure is mounting. president trump continues to attack the investigation and not committing to a sit down interview with robert mueller and his team of prosecutors. and his team of prosecutors. >> we haven't even talked about it. i write the answers, not my lawyers. they are tricked up because they like to check people is the weather sunny or rainey. you have to be careful had you answer questions with people that have bad intentions. the witch-hunt should never have taken place. >> free legal advice from the president of the united states. at the beginning of the week you raised the fact that the president would sit down with his legal team. likely go through this list of questions prepared by robert mueller. what do we know about what he answered? help us understand. >> frustrating thing about this

for me, david, we don't know very much at all. we're getting a soda straw view of this which is only what donald trump and his lawyers want to tell the world. what we don't know, is robert mueller threatening to haul the president before the grand jury? why is donald trump not answering any questions about obstruction of justice or anything that happened when he was president and will robert mueller tolerate that? it's hard for most people to imagine he will. we've seen no public evidence that links donald trump directly to the russia election interference. we've seen a lot of evidence of obstruction of justice. how can the president avoid those questions if that goes more to his legal culpability. >> the president is so proud of the fact he did this himself saying in the oval office, reiterating it yesterday it wasn't done by his lawyers. it was the president putting pen to paper. your reaction to that and the way he's treating all of this at this point? >> you know that's not true. maybe he sat down and started to

draft the answers but there's no way his counsel did not red line with a big huge red sharpy the answers that he's potentially going to be giving to mueller. we heard he'll give the answers next week. they are going through another round of editing. these questions are written answers to questions posed by mueller. like ken said they are not dealing with obstruction justice, they are dealing with potential collusion by russia with the trump campaign. they cover five topics. when he answers the questions it begs the question did mueller draft these questions in a very broad sense? they are definitely not was it rainey or sunny or specific questions. when you ask these questions as a lawyer, you're drafting these questions because you want to either say i got you, i know what the answer is and i'm going to lead you down the path to the wrong answer or you are fishing for the information.

we all know mueller has the answer to these questions already because there's no way he would be asking these questions if he didn't know what is the evidence he already has. >> we're less than an hour away from the next interview with the president. chris wallace is sitting down with the president. he'll talk about matthew whitaker, acting attorney general and i suspect we'll talk about this investigation in compliment with him. how do you see the two things? as discreet things or does one affect the other? >> they absolutely affect each other. the first thing, this is like richard nixon on steroids. this is intense. we know in some way, shape or form that appointing, kicking jeff sessions out, particularly after the mid-terms, but appointsing something like matthew whitaker in a place where trump values loyalty but also values control and the ability to control sends a signal, i think, to larger

communities out to the public that this is donald trump trying to regain the reins of this investigation. now there's only so far that key go. there are things that have been happening well before jeff sessions was kicked outs. but now that matthew whitaker is in control, or to some extent in control and has a history and has clearly pointed out that he's a team trump loyaltyist all the way we may see some things shaken up. >> she says richard nixon on steroids. let me play out that mmetaphor. there was a calmer president trump there in the oval office and before he left for california yesterday. am i making too much of that? the way the tone, the approach has changed. >> you may well be because i've seen a lot of reporting that

behind-the-scenes he's very disturbed. in terms of matthew whitaker, look he's absolutely conflicted. on two points. he knows and was the campaign manager for a key witness in the investigation and made all these statements suggesting that he's pre-judged the results of the investigation. here's the thing about that. if he blocks anything that robert mueller wants to do in an investigative sense the regulations say he has to notify congress about that. we'll find out about that eventually. that's a deter rents to any significant impedense of robert mueller. >> let's see whether or not brett kavanaugh gets a test. this litigant who is a lawyer says we want to see rod rosenstein substituted in as the real acting ag versus matthew whitaker. so trump may be raging a lot sooner than we think when some of these legal challenges work

their way up the food chain. >> somebody of interest to robert mueller and his team, he's spoken to the grand jury already about roger stone publicly professing he'll be indicted. he'll be indicted. help us understand that wrinkle of this investigation, where things stand. i know julian assange has been in the knews. perhaps these two things are related, perhaps not. >> what we know for many weeks robert mueller has been parading friends and associates of robert stone before his grand jury. what does that tell us? you don't need a grand jury to do an investigation. you can conduct fbi interviews. a grand jury is used when the prosecutor want to lock in people's story, get them under oath and in the case of jerome correspondsy he told the world he expects to be indicted for perjury and we understand the reason for that is mueller has some emails that suggest he had advance knowledge of the fact

that wikileaks had obtained john podesta's emails before the world knew that. what this is about is mueller investigating whether there was a conduit between the russian, wikileaks and these fringe figures and trump campaign. roger stone is not a fringe figure. he's been an associate of donald trump for years. he technically wasn't with the campaign. the if mueller can prove stone had advance knowledge and talking to people inside the trump campaign that gets us closer to collusion. >> what do you make of this? the role of roger stone not on the fringe but proudly planning to be on the fringe. what do you make of the focus? >> roger stone, the interesting thing, he's been upfront in a lot of ways about his role in the campaign. in the republican party. he has a long history of basically being part of this dirty tricks campaign. he and manafort used to run a firm years ago. they got in some hot water in the early '80s. part of what we're seeing the

chicken is coming home to roost. for the past actually three years roger stone has engaged in this kind of back and forth taunting with the public, with the press, and in some respects with various legal figures and saying i have various information, i have connections to the campaign. but then as more stuff is coming out he's been quick to back track and to say some of this was all talk and no action. the reality of it is, though, roger stone has his hand in this in some way, shape or form. the question is to what extent does he have his hand in this? >> do we have a better sense of this. the fact we have these text messages, this top radio host -- are we getting close to having a better sense? >> roger stone is a hot mess. that's a legal concept. he's a hot mess. he had to amend his testimony three times before the house judiciary committee after press

reports came out busting him where he was inconsistent and not telling the truth. that's a problem. for roger stone now is do or die time. you either come clean but these text messages don't clear him. he tweeted out that wikileaks release of john podesta's emails would happen weeks before it happened. he had prior advance knowledge. whether or not as ken very aptly noted whether or not he gave that advance to the trump campaign from a legal point whether he'll get indicted as a c co-conspirator. >> to bring it full circle the president answering some question, what does that tell you where we are on this investigation. not a time limit but in terms of what needs to happen, what you think may need to happen? >> on obstruction he's not answering questions, so it's unclear where that inquiry goes because in -- >> it could come to a head.

>> trump's former lawyer is quoted mueller wanted to know what was in the president's head, what was his state of mind. he wanted to ask the president. he can't do that unless he subpoenas him. on collusion if you're going down the path of trying to indict roger stone then you want to trip roger stone as they did with manafort and gates. if you want to indict them you have to bring them to trial. i don't see this ending sadly any time soon. >> we'll come back in just a moment. up next he called it a hoax perpetrated by the chinese. here's president trump's latest take on global warming. >> it great climate. we're going to have that. g to ht

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welcome back to "up." president trump made a trip to california yesterday to several cities in california to look at damage caused by the wildfires that have been raging there for more than a week. i want to check in with kathy park who is in par dierks california. what is the latest? what did the president say yesterday? what will happen here as the new week begins? >> reporter: good morning. fire officials reluctant to give a firm date as far as full containment goes because the situation changes every day. for example, there's a red flag warning in place through the end of the afternoon, which could change the fire behavior, but

some good piece of news is that they are gaining ground on this fire. about 55% containment. they have thousands of firefighters working around the clock. meantime just take a look behind me. this is what is left of paradise. we're in front of a mobile home community that has been completely wiped out. now search-and-rescue crews have the tall order of going through the ash, going through property day-by-day. it's going to take weeks potentially combing through the ash and looking for any remains. it could take years to rebuild paradise. certainly is a devastating situation out here. meantime, evacuees outside of paradise, still a lot of confusion as far as the number of unaccounted for. that number has gone up. nearly 1300. officials say there are names that are listed twice on listings and people have been having some issues connecting with loved ones because they are having spotty cell issues. and folks who are older, retirees might not have the

means to connect with their loved ones right away. the situation still in limbo as far as lives go, folks are still told to stay out of this community. this is still a mandatory evacuation zone. we got a tour of the community with a fire official yesterday. this is something that he said after battling fires for nearly two decades, this is something that he says far exceeds anything that he has ever seen in his career. >> thank you very much. appreciate the update. since those fires started president trump has placed part of the blame on forest management. officials have raised the death count to 76. there are more than 1,200 men and women missing. climate change is an underlying cause of the fires and once again weaver seen the president reluctant to say that. this is part of a pattern. here's president trump last month after hurricane michael. >> i think something is happening. something is changing. it will change back again. i'm not denying climate change but it could very well go back.

they say we had hurricanes that were far worse than what we just had with michael. >> who says that? "they" say. what about scientist whose say it's worse than ever? >> you have to show me the scientist, because they have a very big political agenda. >> very next day the president was asked for clarification. here is part of that exchange. >> previously in the past you called it a hoax. >> there's no question, there is something there. manmade or not. i mean there's something there. and it's going to go and go back and forth. >> that was in october. this is what happened this weekend. >> the scene of devastation change your opinion at all on climate change, mr. president? >> no. i want great climate. we'll have that and we'll have forests that are very safe. >> lee, i want to get your reaction. it is an evolution. what do you make of the president's perspective on climate change.

on one hand he's saying it is a cause but not the whole cause. he's talking about scientists in a vague sense. >> absolutely. >> what's his willingness willing to see the facts. >> so, you know, donald trump has a purely political understanding of climate change. by that i mean he only understands it in terms of how is it going to play out amongst my base, how will it play out amongst republicans and the gop. we've seen him flipflop on climate change not justin recent last couple of years but over the duration of his career. ever write time he's jumped into the conversation. on one hand he perpetuates these ideas that run rampant throughout the right-wing and conspiracy theories saying this is the hoax of the chinese. on the other hand, he'll say there might actually be some truth to this but let's pull back. there's nothing we can do about it. what's happening, however, is that reality is butting up

against the president's reactions and his partisan and political reactions. what we'll continue to see particularly we saw it not only the forest fires but we're seeing it with the hurricanes, we're seeing it, say with devastation across the united states, we'll continue to see president trump who has to adjust to the reality of climate change in the united states and in the world because everybody else is adjusting to it. >> you know what's frustrating, david, is we should be frank about this. republican politicians for years have resisted adopting the science on climate change, but right at the time where it's become so obvious to everyone that they are coming around we have a president who is so untethered to reality he can have multiple facts at the same time and it's not clear he'll ever get there. this man can't get off the idea that trade deficits are a loss of income.

even though his economists say that's not the case. i think we're in the same place on climate change for at least another two years. >> i want to play another cut from president's visit to california. he's invoke the scandinavian country saying this is the smokey bear. >> take care of the floors. i was with the president of finland and he said we have a much different -- we're a forest nation. they spend a lot of time and raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem. then when it is, it's a very small problem. >> the hand waving was distractsing but i was watching jerry brown and gavin newsome for their reaction. this is the continuation we've seen. you ha now giving advice on forestry. >> i'm waiting for donald trump to whip out his ph.d. because

he's an expert on this issue. is it infrastructure weak? this speaks toe tissue of are we funding the appropriate national government organizations so they can battle these issues? as a lawyer i want evidence. and there is evidence. it's in the form of science. why it is being ignored? these are things that you don't see our president do exactly because of what leah said. it appeals to his base. it gives his surrogates something to talk about that in my state of florida, we go through hurricanes a lot and they are devastating. somebody like carlos who just lost in florida he's a huge proponents as a republican saying we can't ignore climate change. everybody has to get on this band wagon. the fact that trump as the figure head, the leader of the free world is saying it's bunk, it's not real doesn't do anybody any service. >> let's pull back a little bit.

there's this moment in that axios interview they did with the president, they said this is something that your employees, the government staff created for you. you hear him talk about some scientists bringing up these straw men. how does that play out more broadly to the administration. thousands of career staffers across the government. >> you raise a really good point. for years the defense department and intelligence community has been producing reports suggesting climate change poses a snags security threat. at times that's been controversial. they've been discouraged from doing that under republican administrations. he'll get many more of those reports. the issue with donald trump is it's not clear he's paying attention to any of it. this is a man that does not read. unless they can put it in a two minute powerpoint or video for him, i don't think we're going to see any progress on it. >> what does that moment say to you when he brings up finland. he stuck with him. what does that say about his

thing or approach to policy. something like that, not applicable dare i say finland and the united states are very different countries in many ways. that's something he grabbed on to and how he's seeing this policy. >> so, you know, with donald trump it's all about ego. everything is about him. and it's really interesting to watch him particularly in these settings where it shouldempathy people experiencing these horrors. but, instead, we understand and we see this across really across everything that donald trump does, this is his political outlook, this is who he is, his identity, that it has to be through the narrative of ego and me, me, me. the only way donald trump will understand this is through the prism of what can i, what i do

experience through this. let me relate it to this moment i had in finland. so, this is what we continue to see. it's a pattern. the president is who he is, that's how he's going to understand things and i would not be surprised if we continue to see this kind of thing in the future. >> once again, president trump versus the intelligence communities. we'll talk about the latest assessments from the cia over the killing of "washington post" columnist jamal khashoggi next. t

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welcome back to "up." we continues to learn more about the killing of jamal khashoggi. now president trump is responding to new reports that cia believes saudi arabia's crown prince ordered that killing. >> it's a horrible thing that took place. the killing of a journalist, very, very bad situation. khashoggi and somebody who is respected that should never have happened and we'll be having a very full report over the next two days, probably monday or tuesday. >> the cia assessed nbs was behind it? >> that's a premature report. >> the state department issued a

statement recent reports indicating that the u.s. government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate. there remain numerous unanswered questions with respect to the murder of mr. khashoggi. you toil in these trenches covering national security. what do you make of this divide? i was struck by what "the washington post" editorial board said as is the case the russian interverns -- intervention in the russian investigation -- you got the community and him on the other side. >> that state department statement put up a straw man because no one has reported that the u.s. government has reached a conclusion what "the washington post" has reported and what nbc news has confirmed is that the cia has assessed with some level of confidence that the crown prince ordered the killing. now that doesn't mean they can prove it.

doesn't mean they have smoking gun evidence. they made an assessment. part of that's assessments is that nothing happens in that country without the prince's say so and many much these people have been identified as having close ties to the prince. so, but look i think even under the obama administration this would have been a difficult issue to finesse because the united states is not going to break ties with saudi arabia. we have a lot of sort of interests in common in the middle east. yet the u.s. president has to condemn the murder of a journalist and trump has not been able to bring himself to do that and he clearly is resisting what his intelligence community is telling him in sort of a way that's obvious to all. >> on that point, you listened to the president yesterday. he's talking about this relationship in stark economic terms. again, he's talking about the deal that was brokered when he was overseas. talking about the jobs.

he talked about the national security implications. as ken points out absent from all of those conversation, is anying ing a nlacknowledgement death of this individual. >> he doesn't exist. trump understands this purely in political and economic terms. so i agree. it's absolutely -- it's difficult no matter who is in charge in a situation like this. but, what we're also realizing is that, you know, is donald trump kind of looks for ways to both avoid, you know, placing blame on the crown prince, but also just completely, you know, does not acknowledge the fact that a journalist for "the washington post" has been murdered. what we're seeing is that the president's political maneuverings are a national security issue and that's deeply concerning, deeply troubling particularly as we think in this moment, these intricate moments, you know, of both intelligence and national security and the

kind of leadership that they call for. >> what's at stake here? i want to get to that point. i'll put up a tweet from senator bob corker who sipts as chair of the senate committee on foreign relations. he says everything points to the crown prince of saudi arabia, mbs ordering "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi's killing. the trump administration should make a credible determinesation of spotlight. there is an awful lot at stake here. what do you see happening in the days and weeks to come? >> let's be clear. jamal khashoggi was not just a journalist. he was a united states resident. okay. so he was from the united states. he was a united states resident. and he was, by all accounts, not doing anything wrong when he was lethally injected, dismembered and nobody has seen his own body. his own family asked for the return of his body. at an incredible credible

concept to think we need to get answers on behalf of the united states before the five men who have been sentenced to death already. before they are executed and can't give answers. will we get access? is the united states intelligence communities going to get access to these men in saudi arabia to ask him these questions? probably not. so what we need to do, those is compile all of the information we can based upon all of the intelligence sources we have to be able to find out, really? the end of the day the cia didn't just wake up one day and have an ah-ha moment. oh, my god he had to be involved in this. cia had to have been procession they're for a while. i would like to know also what did trump know, when did trump know this information and why has either there been a disconnect between cia and white house because that freaks me out if the cia has not been communicating with the white house. or if they have why is the white house pretending nothing is going on.

>> ken rose was here yesterday. he said the president didn't know about this. he hasn't talked about this with the cia director. can't be grounded in truth the underlying evidence would be in his intelligence day after day. >> "washington post" reported the president has been briefed. maybe not presented with this final assessments but been briefed in his presidential daily briefing and in other ways. again, this is the whole trump. he discards information that doesn't fit with the view he wants to present on any given day and that appears to be what he's doing. >> after this happened there was a lot of talk about this being a reckoning, a moment in washington with its relationship with saudi arabia. "new york times" reporting that the point person on sanctions when it came to saudi arabia, point person on the persian gulf and national security council has left that position. what effects are you seeing on the ground in washington as a result of this now that we're a

month out from this happening. >> i'm not seeing a reckoning. this view is you guys are all exercised about this because it's a journalist. the saudis were killing service lance in yemen for years and nobody was talking about it. they realize that things will happen and have to happen because this has become such a public scandal and it's an outrage but the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states is not going change very much, i don't think. but mbs the crown prince may be in some trouble. i talked to a former intelligence official said some of these people he proposes to execute come from tribes which is the bedrock of the house of saud. >> coming up here, still licking their wounds republicans are trying to explain away democratic victories in the mid-terms. that's next.

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welcome back to "up." the composition of the next congress continues to come in to focus as we learn the outcomes of many races that have been too close to call. "saturday night live" parodies republicans trying explain away the blue wave. >> some claim suburban women revolted against the republican party but doesn't it feel true that all hispanics voted twice? you can't dismiss that idea simply because it isn't true and sounds insane. now here to explain how rampant

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john kelley is reportedly standing on shaky ground. the vice president's chief of staff reportedly in the mix to replace him. john bolton's deputy was removed at the behest of the first lady. while there's now an acting attorney general the president of the united states will have to name a permanent replacements in the coming months somebody whose name has come up is florida's attorney general, pam bondi. >> i would consider pam for anything. right now i know her volcanology. in the meantime she's got a very good job. and she's doing a very good job. she's always done a very good job. but in some form i would love to have her in the administration. >> president speaking yesterday before heading to california. surrounding me here are those that left the administration. to give us a sense of the turnover. let me ask about kirstjen nielsen, the homeland security secretary. she's been front and center as the president as directed so much of his attention the

u.s.-mexico border. what makes her position so tenuous at this point. >> the president is one happy that she's not moving aggressively enough to institute his draconian figures of shutting down the border. the problem is there are these things called laws she has to follow. she's been trying to explain that to him. she's by no means a moderate on border issues. these guys have been enacted some of the toughest border measures in our history. it's not enough for president trump. this is an issue with john kelley. john kelley brought her in a and she was his deputy. if she goes it looks like kelly is in a perilous position. >> john kelley's role in this administration has been diminished so much. how are we seeing the consequences play out? >> imagine going to the pulpit, you know, every single day, defending trump and then getting, you know, basically drop kicked out of, you know, this position of power because

you're not, you know, aggressive enough or aggressive enough. and this is exactly what we're seeing but not just, you know, with kirstjen nielsen but across the board. so this is what i think john kelley has been trying to juggle. he's also dealing with a petulant guy who sees this as "celebrity apprentice" white house edition. that means we're talking about an office that's unstable. when john kelley was brought in to bring some semblance of stability, part of what we're seeing too is this breakdown of stability or stability model that john kelley was supposed to bring into the white house. part ever what that tells us is that donald trump is donald trump. and so his white house is going to be chaotic no matter how many structures or people you bring in to fix the situation. >> let me turn to our inhouse floridian to ask about pam

bondi. endorsed the president of the united states. she's term limited. tell us a bit about her and why she might be so appealing to the president. chris christie is another president, and chris -- as well. >> yes. >> tell us about how she might fit into the administration. she's the perfect fit for the attorney general because she's a trump surrogate. i mean, she's been unabashedly supportive of him and cleared of any ethics violations for the $25,000 contribution that was made by her. >> in 2014. >> she ran the gamut and she would be the perfect fit for someone like donald trump, but the problem is all of the people who go into the white house administration and the current administration, they seem like they're the perfect fit until we are all now on the over under is someone like secretary nielsen will be out via tweet? will john kelly tell her or will it be on a post-it?

>> nobody really knows how people will go. remember this throughout secretary nielsen's service and matthew whitaker in the meantime until we have an ag, we have 5800 troops at the border doing nothing. 5800 troops that will not go home for thanksgiving and we have $102 million that this border enforcement will not cost the united states and so what? because nielsen doesn't stand her ground and tell him you're wrong and you will have another person that will basically tell trump what he wants to hear. if you're not, you're out and the scary thing likelia said, if it's chaos in the white house, how will you survive another term with chaos in the white house because if the trump administration will be trump world, people will not have the principle standing to say no, i'm not going to do this anymore. >> these tenures could be short and ricardel, to john bolton, the national security council, talk about people who have had disagreements and james mattis

didn't want to hire her because there had been tension there. why is this such an important departure and is it the manner in which it happened that you have the first lady taking the step of firing off her statement and having her press secretary fire off a statement that she, she didn't believe she could be in the administration anymore or is it something bigger about the way that she fit into the administration. >> this doesn't say as much about the trump administration as it does about mayor ricardel and her unlikability and the fact that the first lady decided to, of all of the things to weigh in on this is the one that she decided to weigh in about and decided it make a public stance about it. she was not well liked within the administration or within the white house. >> trump has a platform of anti-bullying? i mean, he's saying he saw "mean girls" is there a book now that melania keep of people that she

doesn't like. even if she wasn't well liked, is she doing her job well? if so, what is melania trump's input on this? because she didn't have enough seats on a plane for her? if that's in terms of excellence and deliverance of your job, we all have a problem. it seemed very petty. >> the last question about filling these jobs and you bring up whitaker, the acting attorney general, to bring in to replace people a permanent basis. how much of a problem is finding good people to do these jobs two years into this administration? >> trump always says i hire the very best people and quickly fires them. >> we'll have somebody else do it including his wife, apparently. one of the things to take into account, there are always going to be people who are going to want to fill these seat. are they going to be the best? are they the most qualified?

will they have the experience? not exactly. what we are seeing now and in fact, there were warnings about this as soon as donald trump came into office and saw this with the transition team. he was going to reward loyalists and he would pull people in from his team who have shown unconditional support, who won't criticize him instead of hiring these other people. so now what we're seeing is a shift, a full-blown shift to exactly that. weir going to staff these positions, not with people based on qualifications and things like that, but instead who can support me and back up what i'm saying and not actually question what i'm doing. >> so the administration of the deferential and the willing, i guess you could say. >> thanks to all of you for joining me this morning and i will remind you. "up" is up every saturday and sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. eastern time and tweet us at uponmsnbc. the president keeps giving

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♪ ♪ well, good morning. welcome back. this is "up." i'm david gura. are we closing in on the final stage of robert mueller's investigation in president trump has proudly said a few times

over the course of the weekend, he has answered some of the special counsel's written questions and he plans to submit his work this week. >> i was asked a series of questions. i've asked them very easily. it didn't take very long to do, and they were my answers. my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. they're not very difficult questions. >> he and his team of lawyers have had nearly 200 days to prepare some late april, the topics robert mueller wanted to tackle with president trump. you can see those 44 questions are behind me, but the president did not answer all of them according to one of his attorneys, rudy giuliani. they all relate to issues before president trump won the 2016 election. trump's lawyers have not yet agreed to answer a larger set of questions that relate to trump's time as president-elect and then as president which takes questions about obstruction of justice off the table and off

the wall behind me, but does it also decrease the odds of there being a sitdown interview? [ inaudible question ] >> we haven't even talked about it. >> safe to say his lawyers have talked about it and they looked back at the interviews president trump has given. along with my colleague, lester holt and more recently with the daily caller. exhibit a, why the president won't sit down with robert muler and his team and it's not just the on the record trump that is causing problems. if you look at the legal record, under oath trump does not perform much better. >> the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing, but the truth? i do. >> do you remember discussing the content of the article with him? >> no. >> mr. sader? >> no. i don't remember. >> how did you prepare for the case? >> i would say virtually nothing. >> if he were sitting in the room right now i really wouldn't know what he