>> GOOD MORNING.
GREAT TO BE WITH YOU.
INTERESTING.
I WANT TO SAY THIS.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE ASKING THE
QUESTION WHY NOT?
WHAT'S THE THINKING BEHIND THIS
IDEA OF NOT FURTHER PUNISHING
THE SAUDI KINGDOM FOR ITS
ALLEGED ROLE PERHAPS IN THE
MURDER OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI?
THE WHITE HOUSE, SECRETARY OF
STATE MIKE POMPEO SAY YESTERDAY
IT IS A MEAN, NASTY WORLD OUT
THERE.
THE THINKING FROM THE WHITE
HOUSE IS IN THAT ENVIRONMENT
YOU HAVE TO MAKE TOUGH CHOICES.
IN THIS CASE IT WOULD APPEAR
THEY'RE MAKING THE CHOICE
MANIFESTLY SO TO STICK WITH THE
SAUDIS.
LET ME TAKE YOU TO TWITTER.
INTERESTING TWEET AS THE
PRESIDENT BEGINS TO VERY SUBTLY
OR PERHAPS NOT SHOW HIS SUPPORT
FOR THE SAUDI KINGDOM.
HE SAID OIL PRICES GETTING
LOWER.
GREAT.
LIKE A BIG TAX CUT FOR AMERICA
AND THE WORLD.
ENJOY.
$54, WAS JUST $82.
THANK YOU FOR SAUDI ARABIA BUT
LET'S GO LOWER.
NOW THE GAS PRICES AND OIL
MOVEMENT COMES AMID THE GROWING
CONSENSUS THAT SAUDI CROWN
PRINCE MAY HAVE ORCHESTRATED
KHASHOGGI'S MURDER.
HE DENIES THAT.
THE PRESIDENT ISN'T READY TO
CAST BLAME.
>> President Trump: THEY DIDN'T
MAKE A DETERMINATION.
IT IS JUST LIKE I SAID, I THINK
IT WAS MAYBE HE DID, MAYBE HE
DIDN'T.
THEY DID NOT MAKE THAT
ASSESSMENT.
THE C.I.A. HAS LOOKED AT IT AND
STUDIED IT A LOT.
THEY HAVE NOTHING DEFINITIVE.
THE FACT IS, MAYBE HE DID,
MAYBE HE DIDN'T.
>> BUT ON CAPITOL HILL THERE
HAS BEEN VERY STRONG
DISAGREEMENT OVER THE
ADMINISTRATION'S UNWILLINGNESS
TO HARSHLY CRITICIZE THE SAUDIS.
CORKER SAID I NEVER THOUGHT I
WOULD SEE THE DAY THE WHITE
HOUSE WOULD MOONLIGHT AS A
PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM FOR THE
CROWN PRINCE OF SAUDI ARABIA.
AS YOU CAN WELL IMAGINE
RUSTLING A BIT OF FEATHERS ON
THE HILL.
>> Sandra: THE PRESIDENT HAS
SUBMITTED THESE WRITTEN ANSWERS
NOW TO SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT
MUELLER.
SO WHERE DOES THE INVESTIGATION
GO FROM HERE?
>> WELL, QUITE OBVIOUSLY THEY
WANT TO SEE THIS THING WRAP UP.
THEY FEEL LIKE THERE HAS BEEN
NO PROOF OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION
AND BE NO PROOF IS THE ATTITUDE
BY THE WHITE HOUSE.
THE REAL QUESTION IS WHERE DO
WE GO FROM HERE?
I HAVE A FEW OPTIONS I CAN
SHARE FOR THE FOLKS AT HOME.
I HAVE THINK THEY'LL FIND IT
INSTRUCTIVE.
ESSENTIALLY WHAT YOU ARE
LOOKING AT NOW IS WHAT WILL
HAPPEN.
WILL THE MUELLER TEAM DECIDE TO
ASK FOR MORE INFORMATION?
THEY COULD DO THAT AFTER
REVIEWING THE PRESIDENT'S
ANSWERS.
THEY COULD ALSO REVIEW THE
ANSWERS, SANDRA, AND SIMPLY
PREPARE TO DISCLOSE THE REPORT,
WHICH IS WHAT I THINK A LOT OF
PEOPLE THINK THEY WILL DO.
THEY COULD COMPARE THE
PRESIDENT'S ANSWERS WITH OTHER
RESPONDENTS AND THAT'S WHEN
THINGS CAN GET THORNY AND THE
NUCLEAR OPTION, TO SUBPOENA THE
PRESIDENT HIMSELF.
NOW, THE LATTER, AS YOU CAN
IMAGINE, COULD CREATE A
CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS.
THE WHITE HOUSE REMAINING
STEADFAST IN ITS INSISTENCE
THERE WAS NEVER ANY COLLUSIONS
WITH THE RUSSIANS.
RUDY GIULIANI SAID THIS.
OUR POSITION FROM THE OUTSET,
MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN ASKED
RAISED SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL
ISSUES AND WAS BEYOND THE SCOPE
OF A LEGITIMATE INQUIRY.
THIS REMAINS OUR POSITION TODAY.
VERY STRONG WORDS THERE FROM
RUDY GIULIANI, SANDRA.
>> Sandra: MEANWHILE AND
FINALLY THERE IS A REPORT THIS
MORNING THAT THE PRESIDENT
WANTED THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
TO PROSECUTE HILLARY CLINTON
AND JAMES COMEY?
>> YEAH.
WE'VE HEARD HIM SAY THIS OFF
THE CUFF.
IT IS VERY INTERESTING, THOUGH,
TO READ THAT TIMES PIECE AND
GET A STRONGER SENSE HE FEELS
LIKE ONE OR BOTH HAVE BROKEN
THE LAW AND THEREFORE MAYBE THE
D.O.J. OUGHT TO LOOK INTO THAT
POSSIBILITY.
BUT LET ME SHARE THIS.
THE TIMES PIECE IS CAREFUL TO
SORT OF GO PAST THE OBSERVATION
ASKING WHY SOMETHING ISN'T
HAPPENING OR HASN'T BEEN
PURSUED OR WANTING IT TO
HAPPEN, LOOK, IT'S NOT THE SAME
AS ORDERING SOMEONE TO DO IT.
STILL, WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL DON
MCGAHN PENNED A WARNING
DETAILING WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IF
IT WAS THOUGHT THE PRESIDENT
WAS USING THE WEIGHT OF THE
D.O.J. TO PURSUE HIS POLITICAL
ENEMIES.
THAT IS NEVER A GOOD IDEA AND
IN PARTICULAR IN THIS CASE.
THAT SAID, BY THE WAY, I SHOULD
SAY IT LOOKS LIKE A TRANQUIL