Would come to the table and negotiate something thats fair. If they dont, declare the emergency, build the wall with the United States military because thats what people in this country want. Do you support legislation to end the shutdown once and for all . Well, to modify one of my quotes that usually brings a smile to your face, there certainly would be no education in the third kick of the mule. You just have to have a plan so that you accomplish something by it and then reopen it. And i dont think, given that it went 35 days, we had a plan. In politics we call that getting rolled. Do you support a medicare bill for all . I believe it will eliminate private insurance. For people who like their insurance, they dont get to keep it . Listen, the idea is that everyone gets access to medical care. To replace the entire private system, where companies provide health care for their employees would bankrupt us for a very long time. Is health care a fundamental right for every american . Yes, every american should have the right for Affordable Health care. I thought the Affordable Care act was the right thing to do. Refine it, amend it specifically because premiums have gone up. Elizabeth warren wants to criticize me for being successful . No, i think she believes in programs that will lead to a level of socialism in america. If you want to look at a system thats noncapitalistic, just take a look at what was perhaps the wealthiest country in the world and today people are starving to death. Its called venezuela. All right. Billionaires versus the tax proposal. Former starbucks Ceo Howard Schultz and former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg both potential 2020 candidates, slamming activist candidate elizabeths warrens proposal to levy a wealth tax on the rich. The massachusetts senator wants to tax assets held by the wealthiest in the country rather than simply taxing income, which often allows the ultra rich to pay a lower share of taxes than the middle class family. Under warrens plan, households with assets worth more than 50 million would pay a 2 tax annually. Households with assets more than a billion dollars would pay 3 each year. In all, the plan would only have an impact on 75,000 of the nearly 119 million households in the United States. After the businessman scoffed at her idea, warren responded telling the associated press, quote, another billionaire who thinks that billionaires shouldnt pay more in taxes, no surprises. But thats also not how were going to build a future for this country. Joining me now Washington Post political reporter eugene scott and sa hill kapur. Thank you for being with us. Eugene, let me start with you. Bloomberg and schultz are more in line with democrats and republicans on a lot of issues. Michael bloomberg, youll recall, ran as a republican, although most of his policies do seem in line with democrats except on some of the fiscal policies. Why, why do you think theyre doing this . Well, in part, i do think its true because they are very wealthy and they know that their life styles personally would be deeply impacted by the policy proposals that senator warren is putting forward. But they also seem to believe that thats not the best way to improve the conditions of the middle class or working class americans. Weve seen schultz go on media blitz discussing him rising into wealth from Public Housing and a working class background. He seems to suggest that there are other ways to grow wealth in this country from among poor people besides taxing wealthy people, but he hasnt clearly put forward a plan that would help communicate that to voters. Sa hill, when you think about Elizabeth Warrens plan and there have been other democrats who stated similar things, different but the concept that the wealthy or highest earners need to pay more in taxes, whats the malgt on this . Does it actually help or does it make people think that the tax system would be more fair . Its a popular proposition, ali. The idea of taxing the rich, especially the super rich, polls well nationally. I think Elizabeth Warren is conveying something about herself. Proposals this early are vessels for candidates to convey something about themselves to voters. Shes trying to say shes not afraid to go big and bold and anger some people in transforming the economic system, mitigating income inequality. That i think is going to be a central issue in the democratic primary. Who is the best person to do this . Its obviously going to provoke a robust debate between the left wing of the par at this time and more centrist wing of the party, but we are seeing the window of discourse move in a pretty rapidly left ward direction inside the Democratic Party in the age of trump. Eugene, one of the things that propelled a lot of democrats in the midterm elections was health care. Health care did turnout to be the most important thing for many americans. And a lot of Democratic Candidates have endorsed medicare for all. Which by definition does eliminate a lot of private players in the field. You heard Michael Bloomberg saying an absolute nonstarter that would bankrupt the nation. It is an interesting concept. While most other countries with universal coverage, universal health care dont have as much in terms of infrastructure of private insurers, there are a lot of people employed in that industry in the United States. What do you make of where bloomberg and schultz are visavis a lot of these candidates as sa hill said are moving to the left . To warrens point, if you tax the ultra rich, it would not bankrupt the nation or these industries. When warren has been campaigning, she said taxing the top 1 the rate she would like would provide more money for health care, provide more money for free education, provide more money for jobs and the other ideas shes putting forward. So its not as if warren and other democrats who are leftist are trying to provide medicare for all without bringing the funds from somewhere else. Theyre hoping to bring it from people like bloomberg and schultz. Sa hill, to what degree is Elizabeth Warren maybe just laying down markers, right, for others who declare or say that theyre going to run to either reject, come up with something else, agree with as opposed to offering solid policy preskriptives . Its a huge part of what shes doing. Shes setting the marker early. Im going big, Everyone Needs to match me or raise me. On the issue of medicare or all its a fascinating one. Its startling how quickly this has become a litmus test inside the Democratic Party. So many candidates, not all, but many racing to endorse this. The idea behind this, according to many activists that ive spoken to is to create space for moving the debate. As i mentioned earlier, in a more left ward direction. They know theyre not going to get single payer next year or 2021. The obstacles are enormous for doing that. They want to lower the medicare eligibility age, allowing people to buy into it, putting an insurance option on the aca exchange. This would advance the left goal, governmentrun coverage, and this is i think what theyre trying to do is make the space for that so democratic moderates in two or three years from now will be more comfortable supporting those proposals that are on the left and the debate at this point. Right. Its worth noting in countries like canada and united kingdom, medicare for all type of idea single payer system is not considered a left or right issue or progressive issue, even conservatives in those countries support those ideas. Only in america is it thought of as being that far left. Thanks, guys. Eugene scott and sa hill kapur. Coming up next were going to take a deeper dive into what some of these democrats are proposing in terms of health care. California senator Kamala HarrisJust Announced she would eliminate private insurers completely as part of a medicare for all system. Its not actually as weird as it sounds. Thats kind of how the medicare for all system would probably work. Were going to break down how that works. First Senate Committee chair Chuck Grassley said he plans on investigating the spike in the price of insulin for people suffering from diabetes. Two congressional panels held hearings today on the high cost of Prescription Drug prices. 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Those were potential independent president ial candidate independent president ial candidate Howard Schultz and president ial candidate Michael Bloomberg criticizing Kamala Harriss proposal. She called it medicare for all. She didnt come up with it but she endorsed it. Its Single Payer Health care. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced medicare for all as an act in 2017. Senator harris was among 16 democratic cosponsors at the time. Basically it would provide Health Care Coverage for all americans or socalled universal coverage. The sort that most of the industrial world has, with no deductibles or copays. Health Insurance Companies might be eliminated as a process. Were going to talk about that. Several independent studies estimate the cost at 25 to 35 trillion over a tenyear period. In part, that would be paid for by higher taxes which would be offset by not having to pay health care premiums. Either from the companys point of view or the individuals point of view. Lets talk about this a little more. Joining me is dr. Kavita patel at Johns Hopkins medicine. She helped draft the Affordable Care act also known as obamacare. Good to see you, ali. Lets get through the myths of what medicare for all is or isnt. The rest of the medical world have people covered in health care. Some are in insurance coverage, some are single payer systems like canada or great britain. Most of them are not a medicare for all idea. This is just one type of way to do it. Right, absolutely. And medicare for all, as you just mentioned, can also kind of have different variations to it. You can have kind of a way for you to what senator harris is referring to is really kind of truly what you said that senator sanders started, kind of a Single Payer Health system. But i think the goal is to have care for everyone. And the way you get there in a medicare for all system can be different. You dont have to just turn a light switch on overnight and turn everything off. And you can also even have options where you allow adults to buy into medicare in addition to having a public option in the exchange, which i think a lot of us forget, but when the Affordable Care act was being drafted, actually nancy pelosi as speaker then had the House Democrats drafting a public option. So senator harris, i think, is just bringing back a conversation that honestly, its not a surprise to me that billionaires dont have a lot of fondness for this. I will tell you that americans who are foregoing health care to kind of pay their heating bills right. They are looking for a solution like this. You dont have to be a billionaire. You can be any one of my colleagues here at nbc who have some of the best coverage around. Why would i want to give any of that up for something im sharing with absolutely everyone . Putting aside the quality of care that you can get with a medicare for all system, lets go to what Mike Bloomberg said, that it will bankrupt us, that it will put so many people out of work. The private Health Insurance system which is bigger in america than any other industrialized country, any country anywhere, how do they get affected by a medicare for all system . Right. So, a private Health Insurance company would basically have to compete for if you have a medicare option, which we know actually has lower administrative costs and as you just mentioned, you wouldnt have to pay the premiums because you would have medicare as an option. A private Insurance Market could still compete just like they do in other countries. In germany, there is a in most countries, all the e. U. Countries and the canadian kind of system, theyre all private health insurers. Its just they are actually the ones that the people who are more wealthy and can afford private insurance on top of what the government provides. So what would happen in a current kind of plan if we did actually switch medicare for all on, then all the kind of employerbased tax credits, a lot of the things that you and i as employees would enjoy would go away. Right. Because those would be used to Fund Medicare for all. So when we talk about those costs, those massive costs over ten years of putting in a medicare for all system, we have to keep in mind that we pay two to three times what most industrialized countries pay for very similar outcomes. Sometimes those countries have Better Outcomes than the United States has. Right. Look at your paycheck to think about what your wages would be if those were if the premium dollars youre paying or what you share with your employer and remember, a lot of employees dont actually have employers contributing to their costs, but they access insurance through their employer who then receives a tax credit. So, you know, i dont think senator harris first of all, its interesting that so many of these president ial candidates are putting a pretty bold stake in the ground and i applaud that. I think its because of what you said. This is a top issue for voters. And then the devil is in the details, right . Correct, yes. Just remember barack obama when he was a candidate at this time, was absolutely against an individual mandate. And look what happened when he had to put the Affordable Care act together. There is a lot of work to be done here. A lot of people say to me why would i want a system like canadas if you want to wait and my father is a private guy and doesnt like me discussing his Health Matters on television. When he found he had to have a stint, he got it in a week of being diagnosed as having to have one. His bill was what it cost him to park at the hospital. Thats what he paid. Right. Versus somebody who doesnt have insurance in america who may never get that done. Yeah, i think that and i really would kind of challenge all president ial candidates and any party or independents to just talk about what they would do. You can strengthen the aca. I actually think that the spirit of putting out that issue will draw others to have to come up with something. And by the way, just ali, we talked about this. President trump has eroded much of what the kind of promise not all of it, but taking away the mandate in the Affordable Care act has been this little thread that has been pulled and is unraveling in a lot of the great accomplishments. So we need to do something. Thanks very much. Always good to talk to you. Kavida patel is a fellow with the Brookings Institution and practicing physician at Johns Hopkins. More importantly she was involved in the drafting of the Affordable Care act. The midwest is virtually paralyzed right now. Look at some of those temperatures. I just want to you take a look at that. Lets push in on that a little bit. Look at those negative signs, negative 24, negative 25. Because of a deep freeze that is so brutal, people could lose their lives. Some cities are colder than antarctica, siberia and mars. President trump doesnt understand how it could be so cold in the age of Global Warming. Were going to explain that when we get back. 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Lets assume for a moment the president really is confused about the difference between weather and climate. This is for you, mr. President. Weather is a temporary condition. Today its going to be 28 degrees, low of 5 on thursday in new york, its going to be 15 degrees with a low of 11. Friday, high of 23, low of 70. Thats crazy. How can you imagine that this is Global Warming, a steady increase in temperatures . Weather is a temporary condition. Its whats happening outside your window. It tells you what youre supposed to wear when you go to work today. Weather can vary from the typical climate of an area when there is an seasonal cold or warm front. Climate, on the other hand, is a longterm trend over an area of the planet. Its measured over hundreds, thousands, millions of years. The climate is a way to predict what future conditions will be like. Weather tells you whether you should take an umbrella or not. I never do anyway. As evidence of Climate Change has accumulated, theres another point people like the president have latched into, dismissing human efforts to curb rising temperatures. Listen. I think somethings happening, somethings changing, and it will change back again. I dont think its a hoax. I think theres probably a difference, but i dont know that its manmade. Let me help you with that, mr. President. Take a look at this chart. Co2, Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere has fluctuated for hundreds of years, fluctuated, fluctuated, fluctuated, look at this. Thousands of years this is 400,000 years. Look at this. Look what happens. In 1950, the industrial age, once humans got involved and started burning fossil fuels at increasing rates, this is what happened to co2 output. If thats not enough, theres this. Global temperatures since 1984. Things are pretty steady through the end of the since 1884, things have been pretty steady through the end of the 19th century. But as human industry builds up and the cumulative damage accrues, temperatures start rising in the 50s and 60s. By the 1980s, you can see how alarming the trend is. Why worry about this . Lets say you live somebody owns property in florida or along the atlantic coast. As the ice melts, the sea level rises incrementally. If the green land ice sheets melt completely, sea levels along this area are going to rise by 20 feet. Swallowing, miami, new orleans, and any other area thats shaded in red. You see how this increases . Lets continue to shade this. All of this stuff shaded in red floods. Joining me is Nbc News Technology Correspondent jacob ward. First we hear from politicians and people who doubt Climate Change. Well, its cold where i am or even claiming we have the coldest years on record globally which actually isnt true. Of the ten hottest on record, only two fall outside of the last ten years. So tell me why these opposite ideas, these antiscience ideas persist . Well, i think its exactly what you were pointing out about President Trump. Its basically that our human sensor array is built mostly to just relate to other people in small groups sitting around the camp fire. We are not built as humans to rock huge abstract systemic changes. Were good at snakes and fire and things that are right in front of us. We just dont have the apparatus to imagine the kind of scale of change. You see this in technology. You see this now in Climate Change. We just dont believe it unless its happening in front of our eyes. Turns out our eyes cannot help us with this problem. Which is why some people relate to weather more than they relate to climate. Weather is something i have to react to, i have to put on the right coat. If i dont, ill find out. Right. Im spiernsing this right now. How could it possibly be the planet is getting warmer. The kinds of changes were talking about happen over multiple life times and can sweep us up your eyes wouldnt show to you moment by moment. Its something that challenges human perception. Over hundreds of years, we on a moment by moment basis get tricked by our human senses which is we should believe whats in front of us. You study this. Maybe people are intimidated to come up to you and say things like, you know, i dont think Climate Change is human driven or that humans contribute to it. What does a guy like me who is not a scientist, whats the best answer to people who continue to doubt whether Climate Change is actually a thing . I would say two things. First, if youre the kind of person who wants to go head on at the argument. I wish that we could hand out little placards or get tattooed on our arms, that graphic. When the Industrial Resolution hit, the trend started upward and it became a hockey stick. Now its a run away thing. But if you dont feel like fighting, go the other way and say, what is wrong with creating a more efficient, environmentally sensitive world . We are only going to get better and better at making things if we learn to you to make them in an ecologically and environmentally responsible way. It used to be that was the window dressing you would put on the end of a design project. These days any good architect, any good product designer is trying to make something that is environmentally sensitive. In my mind, i think to myself, dont worry about it if you just dont believe it existentially, i wont fight with you. It means were Getting Better at what we do. When i show the chart of water levels rising, the military, the coast guard, the navy, they all understand this. They are trying to build and mitigate those things. So to the degree that people around the world who have to do things about this are doing things, and in the United StatesGovernment Agencies are dealing with it. State governments are dealing with it. Municipalities are dealing with it. Does it matter let me ask you this. How much does it matter that the United States pulls out of the Paris Climate Accord . Oh, its huge. Its huge. We are one of the great emitters of carbon in the world. We and china are the two. You can argue we are bound up with chinas emissions because some of our manufacturing takes place in china. Thats our emissions, too. As we go so goes the planet in many ways. We have to go with it. For me, i just think that even though you hear at the top of the administration this sort of, you know, weird kind of vague dismissals of Climate Change. In the center of the government, places like the rescue teams that are right now trying to plan for the northern crossing, which theyre planning to open up right where suddenly all the countries sweden, norway, russia, United States, canada that are going to share that morn border theyre going to start sending ships. Can our helicopters rescue people in the middle of that . These are practical people. When you begin to hear military and rescue planners planning for this kind of change, you know its real. Those are not people who take a flyer on theoretical things. Im glad we have you to explain things. One of President Trumps biggest moments announcing plans for a 10 billion manufacturing facility to be built by a Foreign Company in wisconsin. Now that Company Appears to be backtracking on the deal. Well have the new developments next. And were watching markets. Heres a live look at the dow after a rough day yesterday. Were seeing some of that come back. The dow is up more than 1. 2 1. 1 right now. Youre watching velshi ruhle live on msnbc. U are so awesome. But the house was built too small. This is kind of awesome . How long are we here . For one year, sparks will fly. This is not awesome. I just want to make an omlete oh, are you kidding me . 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If you got an apple, it was made by foxconn. It announced what the president called the largest Greenfield Investment by a foreign based company in history with hopes to increase u. S. Production and bring 13,000 jobs to wisconsin. The company is reportedly reconsidering plans to make liquid crystal displays, lcd panels at the 10 billion campus and it intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing work force the project originally promised. Its safe to say this wasnt what the president promised. In case you forgot, here he is praising foxconns investment multiple times. Foxconn will invest in southeast wisconsin while a larger facility is constructed over the coming years. And that facility is currently under negotiation. We have foxconn in wisconsin just announce, we have Many Companies, i say pouring back into the country. I think its going to have a Huge Positive impact on race relation. Foxconn makes the iphones for apple. So Many Companies are building now in our country. This is one of the largest plants in the world. And when you think in terms of 20 million feet, if you build in manhattan a million foot building, thats a very big building. Joining me now is journalist covering foxconn since june of 2017. Rick, thank you for being with us. Whats the reason foxconn is giving for not pulling through on this plan . Its the changing nature of the Global Market place and the industry in which they operate, ali. So, foxconn is a Company Whose chairman has said that he actually would like to replace a lot of the workers who are putting these things together in china, these phones and things like that in china, with robots. So this is a guy who thinks that chinese labor, which is some of the cheapest labor in the world, is too expensive. Why would reasonable people have thought that foxconn would make a very big investment in u. S. Price labor. Thats a good question. And i wish i could answer it for you. I have that question myself. But their plans for the nature of their work force have changed dramatically over the last year. Initially they were talking about three quarters or so, maybe 9, 10,000 people being basically factory workers and the balance being engineers, researchers, that sort of thing. Right. Thats sort of been flipped on its head over the last several months. Yet the president repeatedly praised this deal as proof of bringing jobs back to the United States. Not just the president , by the way, in wisconsin. Scott walker praised it, paul ryan praised t. You heard the president say Many Companies are pouring workers back into the United States. We havent seen a whole lot of evidence of that. One could have seen this coming. If you know anything about foxconn, you could have seen that they sometimes backtrack. In fact, it seems to me in the United States they back pack 100 of the time. There is supposed will i a plant being built of harrisburg, pennsylvania which nobody has evidence of. Thats the one im familiar with. It would have been a much smaller project. In 2013 they announced plans they were going to do this and it just never happened. I will say that even today, in reacting to the writers story of foxconn thinking about, you know, shelving manufacturing of lcd panels in wisconsin, the company said while the market place is changing and we have to adapt with it we still are creating 13,000 jobs in wisconsin. Every time plans surfaces, they repeat the plans. Fair enough, youre a reporter. You have to tell me what theyre saying. Critics of the deal in fact, i want to read this to you. The companys own growth projection ands employment goal suggests the taxpayer investment would take at least 25 years to recoup. Thats according to the wisconsin budget project. This is what you call a sweetheart deal for a company. It wasnt that foxconn decided were going to put a plant in wisconsin. The promises that were made at a governmental level of tax subsidies, it would take taxpayers 25 years to recoup that. Thats true as far as i know. And the subsidy of wages at foxconn was at 17 of the total wage bill, significantly higher than what wisconsin did in the past. Rick, thank you for joining me. Hes with the sentinel. Accused as a pedophile more than a decade ago, what is standing in the way of that investigation . Youre watching velshi ruhle live on msnbc. N msnbc. vo were carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100 online. Now weve created a brand new way for you to sell your car. Whether its a few years old or dinosaur old, we want to buy your car. So go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our technowizardry calculates your cars value and gives you a real offer in seconds. 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Joining me is former prosecutor for the Southern District of new york, mimi. This is the Inspector General for the attorney general, because at the time that this was happening, accosta was an employee of the department of justice. Exactly. I mean, you have here sort of a perfect storm. The concern is that this is really going to fall through the cracks. Accosta now is department of labor, not department of justice. The Inspector General of the department of justice is saying, okay, i hear you. This needs to be looked at. And, in fact, he said in his letter he used the phrase important considerations, i think is what he said about this plea deal, needed to be explored. You know, hes not saying theres nothing here to look at. Hes saying theres something to look at, but i dont have jurisdiction because the Inspector General is does not have review power over pr prosecutorial misconduct. Now, the inexpespector general review, as i understand, claims like if there was criminal conduct on the part of a prosecutor. I dont know that there is enough in the record now to call this criminal, but, you know, there is some possibility that accosta took some kind of prieb or promise for a future position in exchange for this lenient plea deal. In the best Case Scenario its weirdly lenient consideration what the allegations were. In the worst case is it an issue of not taking child sexual abuse seriously enough. Right, you put it exactly right. In the best Case Scenario is frankly not criminal. The best Case Scenario thats this a prosecutor who had relation ships, several attorneys including Alan Dershowitz and others. There was a private meeting that was reported between accosta and one of the attorneys who he was friends with outside of the u. S. Attorneys office privately. I mean, very strange circumstances. And so i think frankly, the best Case Scenario is that he just agreed to lenient deal because they did not take these crimes seriously enough and they need to be relooked at, reexamined in light of what i think is a better understand of what happened to these victims. The worst Case Scenario, it was an explicit deal, epstein who is high powered and perhaps other people who might have been involved. One of the really strange things about this plea agreement is it essentially prohibited stopped any ongoing investigations into other peopl been involved with this scheme with upsteen. Part of the issue is this was 11 years ago. It is unclear of what exactly happened but well continue to follow it. President trump repeatedly threaten to call out of nato. I got to interview the natos attorney general. I will have that next, first, it is time for our monument american, we are honoring the civil rights a activist who would have turned 100 years old. 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Actually future defense means that we defense each other. Right. Nato of course is important for europe based on the principles overall, we keep each other safe. It is a great advantage for the United States to have allies, friends, which always works together with them. Russia and china does not have anything like that. U. S. Does. The only time, it is mostly the United States. 9 11. Hundreds of thousands of european so soldiers have stand together with the United States. Do you have any concerns . Nato is an important document. Article five is the idea that someone attacks one of the 29 members of the country and everybody treats it as an attack on themselves and gets involved in that way. Are you concerned that if there was one of these types of attacks, are you concerned that everybody will stand down or you think nato is as strong as today as it was in 9 11. The reason why we have this collective Defense Force is to prevent the conflict. Because as long as every possible adversary knows that an attack on our nato ally, i have seen that work for 70 years. We noeed to maintain that unity. Thats the best way to preserve the peace and prevent the conflict. Thats the terms. Collective offense, starting to get mutual offense is the best way. Angela merkel, european and European Countries need to take care of itself and now we have seen an Alliance Building between france and germany about sort of a mutual, sort of a n o natoplus. What is that look like . What are they doing different than nato . I think it kind of deliver more European Defense capabilities and Weapon System and all of that is fine. European union can never replace nato especially after brexit. T at least they are moving in the right direction. It has to take place in nato. Not competing but complementing it. Thats natos general. I want to reiterate one point in there. Natos article five calls for mutual defense if any country of nato is attacked, it is considered an attack on all country. Katy tur is with me right now. You know this. The only time article five has ever been invoked was on 9 11. Because that was an attack on america and nato says it was an attack on all of us. Now, they are requests whether if well come to their aid. They sent troops to afghanistan and people die in defense of america because we have a mutual defense. People got a lot of blow back across europe were making that decision. It is important for us and sometimes we forget how good we got it because we have a mutual defense treaty. Ali velshi, i am so happy you underscore. See you in an hour. The man who could be the lynch pin of Robert Muellers investigation will be back in federal court in 48 hours. Yesterday roger stone pleaded not guilty to seven charges including lying to congress and witness tampering. Hes building a very public case to profess his innocence. An interview last night, of perjury as a simple memory lapse and explains why he thinks it is important to make the media realms. To the extent that i made a mistake of memory, they would be without intent or material under the law. For any legal experts