pres Wallace the summit between President Trump and Kim jong-un is on
but what about a trade war with our closest allies
I think the relationship we have right now with doctors as good as it's been in
a long time this hour we'll discuss what to expect from the Singapore summit and
the pushback from Canada Mexico and Europe to the president's tariffs on
imports of steel and aluminum let me be clear these tariffs are totally
unacceptable we have to believe that at some point common sense will prevail a
live interview with Larry Kudlow the top White House economic adviser only on Fox
News Sunday then well president Trump sit for an interview with a special
counsel I'm not gonna let my client testify the president United States even
if he wants to without those documents being produced we'll talk with Corey
Lewandowski mr. Trump's first campaign manager and still a close advisor plus
comments from Roseanne Barr and Samantha bee both spark outrage but very
different results we'll ask our Sunday panel is there a double standard and our
power players of the week share some words of wisdom for the class of 2018
right now on Fox News Sunday and hello again from Fox News in Washington we
begin with breaking news the New York Times is the first to report a story the
president runs legal team sent a memo to Special Counsel Robert Muller in January
asserting broad presidential powers in the memo the lawyers argue the president
cannot be compelled to testify and cannot obstruct justice because he has
authority over all federal investigations and new lead lawyer Rudy
Giuliani tells ABC News if Muller tries to subpoena us were
going to court joining us now from Manchester New Hampshire President drums
first campaign manager and current advisor Corey Lewandowski Corey is that
the president's view that he cannot be compelled to testify and that he cannot
as the president obstruct justice well Chris I think look I'm not an attorney
so I want to be very clear about this but what this memo outlines and what
their team has said was if the Muller team is going to potentially subpoena
the president that is something that they believe is not authorized because
of his position now what they're trying to do Chris is they're trying to sit
down and figure out if the president is going to sit down for an interview and
that interview is going to be based on a narrow scope of questions that the team
is trying to negotiate right now but we're Rudy Giuliani has said as the
president's attorney is if the mower investigators decide to subpoena this
president they will take it to court and I believe the court is gonna be on the
president's side on this but and this specific issue has never been
adjudicated that there is a long history of the courts ordering presidents to do
something and presidents agreeing to do it a subpoena is a court order Thomas
Jefferson had to bow to a court order Richard Nixon had to bow to the Supreme
Court in releasing the Watergate tapes Bill Clinton had to bow to the Supreme
Court when it came to testifying in the Paula Jones civil suit well well that's
exactly right but you have to remember look that Giuliani legal team is trying
to negotiate with the Muller team to decide if it is the right thing to sit
down and have this interview and if so they want to understand what the scope
of the questions are so there's the potential to avoid a subpoena entirely
if the teams can work together and it is determined that the questions that will
be asked will be relevant to a investigation to prove once and for all
there was no collusion and it sounds like what Giuliani and his team are
saying is you don't need to go to the subpoena route but if you do we will
fight it in court the president's been very clear he's offered to sit down with
the mower investigators but he has said and the Giuliani team has said this they
want to understand what the scope of questions are going to be before they
sit down and do that III want to just try to narrow this down a little bit
butler's a rather Giuliani says if Muller gets a a subpoena which is a
court order the Giuliani and the president's legal team are going to go
to court what if the court says no mr. president
you're wrong if the president prepared under his understanding of his powers in
the executive branch is he prepared to defy a court order look I don't think so
and I haven't spoken to the president about it that's a question for his legal
team but I think the president clearly respects the rule of law in the country
there's no question about that but what they're doing it's Chryst
there's a way to avoid all of this there's a way to avoid a potential
constitutional issue on this which is working with Mayor Giuliani and his
legal team and the more investigators if they can come up to a resolution which
is going to ask the president to sit down and have a conversation which is
limited in scope present the interrogatories then the team will
decide if the president's willing to do this but Chris at the end of the day
what the Muller investigators can do is they can write a report to Congress and
to the Justice Department and show that there was no collusion between the
president and the Russians and that's where we are so if the president is
asked to sit down and discuss this he is going to say exactly that because I know
it to be true you know what to be true the American
people know there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the
Russians I want to talk about another part of the memo and we again should
point out this was a memo that was written by the president's former legal
team in January including John Dowd was sent to Muller Rudy Giuliani was not
part of that but the president's lead lawyer he is
embracing that January memo and another part of it basically says the president
has the ability to pardon anybody he wants I want to look back at that
because the president has been busy with his pardoning this week he pardoned
dinesh d'souza a conservative author this week going around the normal
process of going to the Justice Department the office of pardon attorney
he did it unilaterally he says he may pardon Martha Stewart he may pardon
former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich the top Democrat on the House
Intelligence Committee said even before this latest round of pardons that he saw
a pattern here he is I think the president is sending a message basically
I will use the pardon power to pardon people even that a bit convicted of
leaking or obstruction of justice if you're with me I have your back and
longtime Trump advisor Roger stone said this it has to be a signal to Mike Flynn
and Paul Manafort and even robert muller indict people for crimes that don't
pertain to russian collusion and that is what could happen so are you saying is
the president saying as Rudy Giuliani saying he can pardon anybody he wants
including people that are swept up in the special counsels investigation well
Chris the Constitution is very clear and the power of the President as defined by
the Constitution allows him to pardon anybody he wants for federal crimes and
no one is talking about the pardon of the heavyweight boxing champion Jack
Johnson that he pardoned was something that the Obama administration had the
opportunity to do and others but chose not to and so people want to make this a
political issue the pardoning of dinesh d'souza was a
one-off but this president has pardoned I think 0.7% of the applicants in front
of him which is a far lower number than any previous president at this point and
so look is he going to pardon the mark riches of the world like the Clintons
did of course not right those are personal friends of the
president back then who had crimes committed against our government that
were convicted but and they were pardoned for bullying
if he were to pardon and I give emphasis if he were to pardon Michael Flynn or
Paul mana for people that could conceivably give evidence against him
that's a lot worse than markridge yeah but Chris there's absolutely no evidence
whatsoever that the president has ever discussed having a pardon from Mike
Flynn or Paul Manafort or anybody else for that matter and with all due respect
to Roger stone I don't think he has any idea what he's talking about this is not
a sign look I don't know of the president's relationship with Dinesh
D'Souza I don't know I had never met Dinesh D'Souza so I don't think it was a
strong relationship between the president him but he looked at that
particular case saw an injustice that was done which by the way Chris was
selective enforcement by the previous administration for a campaign finance
violation the same exact finance violation I think Roseanne Barr has
admitted to giving too much money to candidates and we haven't seen a
prosecution of her for that and so the president pardoned Dinesh D'Souza on a
one-off opportunity but never ever ever has this present said to the best of my
knowledge he's even thinking about a pardon for a Mike Flynn or yours when he
wants to associate you are saying that he could do it if he wanted to well yeah
of course under the Constitution as illegal authority to pardon anybody
that's the power that lies strictly with the President of the United States no
question all right I want to go to a couple of other subjects let's turn to
Spygate the allegation by you and others and of course by President Trump that
the FBI inserted a spy into the campaign here's what President front said and
also when Republican congressman trey Gowdy said after he got a classified
briefing from the Justice Department of the FBI
how do you like the fact they had people infiltrating our campaign can you
imagine I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow
citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it
has nothing to do with Donald Trump Cory that's Trey Gaudi he's a conservative
Republican he led the Benghazi investigation and he is undercutting
what the President and frankly people like you talk about when you will used
to discuss pi day well Chris I'm very concerned what we
don't know unequivocally is did the FBI take an informant and put them inside
the campaign because I can tell you I never spoke to anyone from the FBI as
the campaign manager for 18 months of that campaign never did they notify me
of their concerns about potential Russian meddling never did they notify
me or anybody else while I was there of a potential spy entering the campaign
never did they notify anybody that I'm aware of that they had those concerns
and what is more disturbing to me is there was only one campaign that was
involved in the general election that took five million dollars went out and
hired a former spy to go create a false dossier to spy on American citizens and
that was the Clinton campaign and it doesn't sound like they were so
concerned that they put a spy into that campaign so this looks like potentially
selective enforcement if this took place and if it did take place Chris there had
better be accountability for sending a spy now clapper says that's not the term
we use anymore and Brennan says we don't use the term spy you call it what you
want when you have a paid government informant who made a lot of money trying
to solicit information from a presidential campaign without notifying
that campaign that's called spying all right one last question I want to get to
because you have joined vice-president Pence's political action committee
involved in raising money and supporting Republican candidates in the midterms
here's some of what President Trump has been saying about Democrats on the
campaign trail remember the term shotgun answer they don't want the world they
want open borders they're more interested in taking care of criminals
than they are and taking care of you we are going to protect your Second
Amendment you won't have a second if the Democrats take over and the
president called Nancy Pelosi the ms-13 lover of course referring to the
terrible violent gang I got 30 seconds for you any of that do you believe over
the line for president Trump Chris it's a clear reminder to the American people
of what happens if the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives
and Nancy Pelosi becomes the next speaker not one Democratic member of the
House of the Senate voted for the historic tax cuts this president tried
to negotiate to get money for the wall and take care of the people that came to
this country through no fault of their own and the Democrats didn't want to do
it because they want to politicize it so this president has to remind the
American people of what is at stake in the 2018 elections and that is moving
our country in the same direction which is the lowest unemployment for African
Americans and Hispanics ever recorded or going back to the ways of more money in
taxes and increasing your taxes under what would be Speaker Pelosi it's a
clear dichotomy and I think the presents on the right track Cory thank you thanks
for joining us today always good to talk with you thank you up next we'll bring
in our Sunday panel to discuss those hateful comments from two comedians that
spark similar outrage but very different consequences this week Plus what would
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