Hello and welcome to the slate, Political Gap Fest for February 8, 2018, the Correction

Not a Crash Edition I'm David Klotz about the Obscura. I'm in Washington, DC, joining me

together a matched pair from the CBS studio in Manhattan. John Dickerson of CBS is this morning,

Howdy John. Hello David, we're in the CBS studio thanks to the great work and for which we're

grateful of Dustin Jureve. Thank you Dustin. Emily Bazlone of the New York Times magazine at John

Sy. Hello Emily. Hello hello. I have no one to thank. On this week's Gap Fest, the president's

lawyers are setting him up to refuse an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller, even as the

newness memo fallout continues. We'll talk about the latest twists and turns in the Russia investigation.

Then stocks are down, then down, then back up. Why is the stock market, which has been so boring,

suddenly so interesting, then the very disturbing Rob Porter domestic abuse scandal that's

transfixing White House world, plus we will have cocktail chatter. And we have a live show coming up,

well, we have a couple of live shows coming up, our Portland show as we mentioned last week is sold out.

That's okay. We are going to be in St. Louis. Well, it's not okay if you live in Portland, but we're

going to be in St. Louis, Missouri and St. Louis, Missouri, both of those cities on May 2nd at the

Sheldon concert hall. You can get tickets at slate.com slash live. Learn more about that show. Tickets are

going quickly, so go there. Fast. It's our first show in Missouri, St. Louis, Sheldon concert hall on

May 2nd, Slate.com slash live for tickets. There is lots to talk about. We can start with the

Trump and Mueller Teta TET. The New York Times reported this week that the president's lead lawyer,

John Dowd, is urging President Trump not to submit to us sit down and interview a special counsel,

Robert Mueller, about Russia. The president has said that he wants to talk on the record to Mueller,

because of course he did nothing wrong. There's no obstruction or collusion. So he's, of course,

he's glad to talk about it. But as the Times nicely put it, Trump's history of lying has his

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