Dershowitz on Trump Sit-Down with Mueller: ‘It’s a Perjury Trap’

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SMITH: "If the president agrees to the subpoena, you're saying, he has the ability to fight it and you listed the ways his team could do that. but if he agrees to the subpoena and sits down to these questions, where does it end up?"
DERSHOWITZ: "Well It depends on -- on what he answers. I think if I were the president’s lawyer — and I’m not, let me be clear about that --"
SMITH: "Got it."
DERSHOWITZ: "-- I would take advantage of these questions and I would submit answers in writing to almost all of them and then make objections to the others based on Article 2 of the Constitution. And then tell the American public look, I’ve answered all these questions, why are they trying to bring me into a grand jury? This interferes with my right to govern and I think he would be in a better position politically and perhaps even legally if he were to provide answers to the questions. Remember one of the reasons they want to haul him in front of a grand jury or ask him questions is because they want to see if he is going to lie. This is a perjury trap in some ways. And it's not a proper role of the grand jury to set perjury traps or subjects of criminal prosecutions. The role of the grand jury is to obtain information they don’t already have, not to give the subject an opportunity to lie about answers that they do already have."