David Axelrod on Mueller Report: Trump Thinks He Can Get Away with It

‘Theoretically somebody could go to jail’

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AXELROD: "Well theoretically somebody could go to jail. But what it does is, they are in a big game of stall. And we don’t really know because it’s unprecedented to see the White House take a blanket position on these kind of subpoenas and requests. You know it’s interesting to me as someone who did serve in the Obama administration, to hear the president say it’s a partisan House and we're not going to comply. Well anyone who has any recollection of history understands that it was a pretty partisan House on the other side during the Obama years. They pummeled the president and the White House with subpoenas and requests. And I can't think of one time when those were resisted in this way. Sometimes there were negotiations that ended in sworn depositions rather than open testimony. But, you know, here’s the deal with Donald Trump. He will -- people say where is the line? The line is whatever he can get away with. And he thinks he can get away with this."

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