here in New York foxes alert now awaiting the arrival of a vice president
Mike Pence at the Pentagon where he will be meeting with top brass about the
formation of a space force and then deliver critical remarks on that all
this and keeping with President Trump's call for a new branch of the military
for the future to protect vital US interests in outer space we will bring
you those remarks when they get underway from the Pentagon coming up here team
has responded to robert muller and they have one main condition and the russia
probe welcome to a brand new hour of America's newsroom I'm Sandra Smith
making it making it simple there i'm bill hemmer good morning we'll try and
keep it that way we don't know the specifics but trump's legal team playing
this one close the main message appears to be wrap it up by September and that
brings us to today's newsroom music president Trump's lawyers making what
they're calling a counteroffer for an interview with the special counsel
Robert Muller Rudy Giuliani says it may be quote the last best chance special
counsel Robert Muller has to secure president Trump's testimony this is a
good-faith attempt to try and meet the special counsel part of the way and wrap
up this investigation we offered them an opportunity to do a form of questioning
you can say yes or no Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz thinks the
strategy is to make it impossible for Muller to accept the president's terms
they're gonna make Muller an offer he can't accept some reports indicate the
offer includes a condition the president won't be asked about obstruction of
justice if there's any type of interview whether
it's written or otherwise it will be the appropriate type of response this legal
team is not walking this president to a perjury trap not going to happen
Mahler reiterated the need to interview Trump both to understand whether he had
any corrupt intent to thwart the rush investigation and to complete this
obstruction of justice portion of his probe why do you want to get him under
oath you think we're fools they want to get among the others you want to trap
him in a perjury but we're not gonna let you do that bottom line these two sides
are still pretty far apart the ball is now in Bullards court how much does he
really want an interview and to what degree does he realize this may be his
last chance to get more the ultimate decision whether to do it
is up to the president let's bring in today's headliner Anthony scare Moochie
former White House communications director Anthony great to see you this
morning hey good morning guys all right so
you've heard the response big news yeah so what do you think about it well
listen I think it's the right strategy I mean you know it's talking from the
president's legal team they've got to make sure that it's a very narrow banded
window of questions they're obviously going to be concerned about the perjury
issue if you if you were sitting with that legal team right now you would say
the president did absolutely nothing wrong but we can have anything what they
used to say about Watergate to cover up being worse than the crime or any
potential perjury and so that it's absolutely the right strategy and I
would also recommend to the President as I've said let's not tweet about it
anymore no no tweets related to the Trump Tower
meetings no treats related to any of this stuff because I think he's going to
get what he wants I do not believe that he's a target of these investigations as
it relates to Russian collusion but what's at issue is did he do something
related to obstructing justice and so I clearly believe that he did not do that
and now it'll be up to his legal team to prove that the robert muller and so but
i do think my former law school professor alan dershowitz is right
they're gonna make this thing very very narrow because ideally they really don't
want the president to testify but no the president now Sandra and the
president probably very much so wants to testify because look what where's
everything on a sleeve yeah he doesn't think he did anything wrong what
Dershowitz said with Sandra last hours that this goes to the Supreme Court and
if it does the court will rule in favor of some questions and rule out of favor
for other questions so what would be in Anthony and what would be out well
listen I mean what would clearly be in is whether or not they have the right to
speak to the president through the subpoena process and so I think the
conservatives on the court would probably said that they don't you have
to leave the president alone he's got a very difficult job and the Liberals
would probably say that he did they do and so they would probably split the
baby and allow certain questions to be asked and other questions frankly not to
be asked it's interesting because you know Ryan guy those are not Ryan but
Judge Kevin all wrote a lot of stuff the way he's handle a lot of aspects to the
to the presidency and so but this is not a freewheeling situation okay this
requires a tremendous amount of verbal discipline it requires a tremendous
amount of coaching and listen it's gotta be very frustrating for the president
because he's probably sitting there saying I've done absolutely nothing
wrong I've got the economy humming I've got the unemployment numbers at an
all-time low I'm fixing the Korean problem I'm decimating the Iranians if
you guys just leave me alone we've got a roller coaster of winning taking place
and so he's sort of probably upset about the whole thing having said that the
locomotion on this thing started after the Comey firing and hopefully it will
it will conclude soon and they've got to wrap it up here hopefully with a
narrowbanded testimony or no testimony but I really hope it doesn't go to the
Supreme Court guys because well every time something goes to the Supreme Court
it's like lighting another match in the partisan struggle that we have going on
in the country right a lot of people think if you don't get answer by the 1st
of September it slides at the end of the year even next year because the midterm
september/october and speaking of which we're still digesting the news from
Tuesday night I you are as well how you can go into
central Ohio and win the district two years ago by 11 points Mitt Romney won
it by 10 and now you're you're in a virtual dead heat Karl Rove writes three
in the Wall Street Journal all about this very interesting I'll take number
six guys this is what he says okay with regard to the president taken on the
stump etc well this is number five taken as a whole Tuesday's results don't
justify the president's declaration of the giant red wave is coming it's not
yes the GOP can add seats in the Senate there are 26 Democratic seats up ten in
states mr. Trump carried five and states of care by 18 points or more not
significant compare that with just nine Republicans up and only one in a State
Hillary Clinton carried no Senate landscape has been as favorable to party
and power some senators are first elected by popular vote 1914 he goes on
to argue that yes the president drives people to the polls when he makes
appearances in different districts across the country but he also drives up
the other side as well and soft Republicans likely will stay home as we
have seen in Ohio and we saw in Pennsylvania 18 just react to that
Anthony is that the reality for midterms and 95 he's in it he's in a yeah well
he's in a stew political scientist and it just what ends up happening is the
the party that's out of office is riled up and they have higher voter
participation going into these midterms and you could just look at the rob a
Sereno race in Westchester last year Rob got more votes than he got
in 2013 but he still lost my 26,000 because there was a rush of registered
Democrats that came to the polls and so what Karl's worried about and you could
clearly see it in district 12 in Ohio two days ago or a day ago that that's
going to be a problem look I was out in Cleveland over the last two days
marketing for my firm talk to a lot of people out there
the president is got a great campaign style but he really should dial down he
really should dial down some of the tweets because a lot of these Mis
Midwesterners that actually really like him they don't like certain aspects of
that bellicosity and so you've got 90 two days left I told Sandra the other
night that is a lifetime in American politics and so you cannot underestimate
the president he went from the Access Hollywood tape on October 7th to an
electoral success on November the 8th one short month later and so my bed is
is that the White House and the president are recalibrating a campaign
strategy right now based on what took place this week and I would not count
him out it may not be a red wave but it may not also be the blue wave that
everybody's talking about either because of the economy guys not religious all
those parameters are good at that point that bill bill went on to make and this
wall street journal editorial number 7 guys it is a good one and I think it's
worth pointing this out because he is showing up and endorsing these
candidates and making a big difference can he keep that up is the question in
this piece that writes Tuesday's results cast doubt on the current White House
strategy to make the election a referendum on Donald Trump the president
took credit late Tuesday for bald ursins apparent Ohio victory and perhaps his
visit to the district Saturday evening motivated some GOP voters but his
omnipresence also motivates Democrats while it may demotivate soft Republicans
and independents who dislike mr. Trump could that be the case Anthony well
listen I'm certain that there's an element of truth to that because that's
happening it happened to Reagan at 82 it happened to Barack Obama in 2010 so
there's obviously an element of truth of that but they're not to use a sports
metaphor but if you've got Donald J Trump and you have the opportunity to
deploy him in your district given the popularity that he has with the
Republican base and given the ability for him to turn out rock star like
audiences and crowds and get the media attention on your agenda you're gonna go
with Donald J Trump it's like putting Tom Brady in two minutes to go in the
fourth quarter and the Super Bowl you're bringing you're bringing the big guns in
there and even if the opposing side is going to lead to more participation on
their side that is still your best strategy if you're looking at a game
theory model so the president's got the energy of five people I suspect it he'll
be out they're over the next 90 days in a way
that will surprise everybody because of his stamina and his endurance and by the
way he likes it now you could see it on Saturday night
he was very you know he's very unplugged he's very comfortable in front of that
microphone in that audience and he's look I think he looked I think he likes
that a lot more than talking about Robert Muller and the Russian
investigation thanks it that way yeah Anthony scary Moochie thank you great to
be here some more breaking news US ambassador nikki Haley UN nikki Haley
speaking exclusively to Fox News on the bold new action the Trump team is taking
against Iran here was part of what she said on that they can play politics all
they want what we know was it was a bad deal we wanted to get out of the deal
and we did that and now they're paying the price
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