Fox interview fallout shows why Trump’s lawyers don’t want him talking to Mueller

The Daily 202's Big Idea

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Politics, News, Daily News

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🗓️ 24 August 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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President Trump’s lawyers say they’re afraid Mueller will lay “a perjury trap,” but the Fox hit shows Trump doesn’t need to be coaxed like a bear in the backwoods of Maine with donuts.

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0:00.0	The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by Cleveland Clinic,
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0:15.0	Good morning.
0:18.0	I'm James Holman from the Washington Post
0:20.0	and this is the Daily 202 for Friday August 24th.
0:24.0	In today's news, the National Inquirer stored documents about
0:30.6	Trump's hush money payments in a safe.
0:33.0	The president asked his lawyers if he can pardon Paul Manifort
0:38.0	and the Australian Prime Minister is ousted by his own party for trying to address climate change.
0:46.6	But first, the big idea.
0:49.6	Donald Trump's own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, publicly disagreed with his client's suggestion
0:55.8	Thursday that it may be ought to be illegal for, quote, flippers to get plea deals in exchange
1:02.0	for their testimony.
1:04.1	In an exchange with Fox News that aired Thursday morning,
1:07.6	Trump complained about his longtime former attorney Michael Cohen
1:10.9	pleading guilty to eight felonies in a plea deal that named the
1:14.4	president as an unindicted co-conspirator. He also praised his former campaign
1:18.9	chairman Paul Manifort for not cooperating with Special Counsel Bob Mueller.
1:23.6	Here's the president on Fox.
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