. >> joining us now carrie cordero and anne milgram. >> one of two things. he is starting to prepare and beginning soft questioning or getting him comfortable with him. and the other is, testing him out. you would never let someone like the president of the united states walk into an interview and not have him prepped for a good amount of time. they want to see does he lie. how does he respond when he gets questioned. there is this question of how will he do in an interview and a lot of question of whether he should actually sit for the interview. >> carrie, he has been deposed before. and he actually has done a lot better than a lot of people may think. there are concerns that people close to him fear it might -- could he still face perjury charges. >> even if he is not under oath like he would be in a grand jury type proceeding. the big question for these interviews is what is the scope of them substantively. are the interviews going to be limited only to matters pertaining to the russian influence investigation or is it going to cover obstruction or start

joining us, cnn legal analyst carrie cordero and ann milgram. how important is this? >> it could be one of two things. the first is he is really starting to prepare and they are beginning soft questions, sort of getting him comfortable with it. the other option is they are testing him out to see how he would do. you would never let someone like the president of the united states walk into an interview without having been prepped for a good amount of time. it really could be either. but i suspect there may be the possibility they want to see, you know, does he lie, does he equivocate, how does he respond when he gets questions because there is, as you have stated and pamela stated, there is this question of how will he do in an interview and a lot of question of whether he should actually sit for the interview. >> he has been deposed before. some supporters of the president said he's actually done a lot better than people may think. there were concerns, though, from people close to the president that an interview like this could obviously expose him to possible charges

joining us van jones, paris den nard, and anne milgram. it's an odd story. i mean it's again, an indication of the president's team looking for information about these e-mails, something the president himself called out for russia to try to help him find. >> well, absolutely. also it's an indication not just that people in his campaign were looking for this kind of information but also that there were sources from outside of the campaign, whether they be from the dark web or from russia or wherever they might have been that were peddling that information and presenting it to people who were on trump's team and hoping and expecting that they would somehow take it and run with if and try to get it out, swi out, which is in fact it sounds like this person did. >> and they're high level advisers. jared kushner could possibly likely be on that list. it doesn't seem like there was just an interest. there was like a dogged interest, right? they were going to keep looking and keep looking. they knew or believed this was going to be the key to winning, and why wouldn

david chalian, kristen powers, anne milgram, jeffrey toobin, paul begala, and mike shields. jeff, you know, the president saying that basically linking all this to robert mueller, the person who actually authorized this raid would be the head of the southern district who's an appointee of the president. >> geoffrey berman. the u.s. attorney. appointed by donald trump. not just that. remember, he didn't have the authority to order a search warrant by himself. all a u.s. attorney can do is make an application to a magistrate judge who decides whether there's enough evidence to grant a search warrant. so it's not -- his complaint is not just with robert mueller. it's with his own appointee, geoff berman, and the judges who approved the search warrant. so the idea that this is somehow bob mueller off on a rogue tangent by himself is just completely belied by the facts >> it's also interesting to hear them, the president talk about the fbi kind of breaking into his -- as if it's like daniel ellsberg's office, his psychiatrist's office and they're stealing documents. what hoops do