that was a jaw-dropping story. if they were fine with it they didn t read the story carefully. it made clear don mcgahn sees himself as the white house counselor lawyer protecting office of the presidency and not donald trump. he thought he was trying to set him up. he made the decision to cooperate with robert mueller. went in there three times, 30 hours of interviews, and the white house does not know what he said. the story suggested that he talked about those episodes where trump was pressuring him to fire mueller and he was resisting because he knew it was improper. that could be damaging. he s the only witness that can give mueller this sort of intimate details of those exchanges. could be very important. dan balls, were you surprised by this, the john dean comparison in particular. you ve seen this arc play out. that s a pretty striking historical comparison. it is. to have the white house counsel in a sense cooperating fully, even if blessed by the white house initially w
potentially being set up. that was a jaw-dropping story. if they were fine with it they didn t read the story carefully. it made clear don mcgahn sees himself as the white house counselor lawyer protecting t office of the presidency and not donald trump. he thought he was trying to set him up. he made the decision to cooperate with robert mueller. went in there three times, 30 hours of interviews, and the white house does not know what he said. the story suggested that he talked about those episodes where trump was pressuring him to fire mueller and he was resisting because he knew it was improper. that could be damaging. he s the only witness that can give mueller this sort of intimate details of those exchanges. could be very important. dan balls, were you surprised by this, the john dean comparison in particular. you ve seen this arc play out. that s a pretty striking historical comparison. it is. to have the white house counsel in a sense cooperating fully, even if blessed by
in 2018. this week ocasio-cortez has come under fire for excluding journalists. her decision to keep the press out of those town halls, quote, a nonstory. her campaign manager said her attempts was to try something unique with her constituents. but this experiment was likely a one-time deal and that future events will be open to the press. seung min kim, you have engaged with miss ocasio-cortez on twitter. this is how you point out how town halls do not work, excluding members of the press. if she had this for immigrants in the community or domestic violence as she pointed out in her tweet to me, we would have found it very understanding. but the fact that everybody was welcome to this town hall except for press, that s just simply not how it works. the press is there to be a
first lady, michelle obama, added, we have your back. openly gay athlete competing in individual sports, martina navratilova and billy bean only came out after they retired. jason collins has changed that. male athletes have been in the closet and are feeling like it is a possibility to come forward. what jason did today is incredible. one brave seven-footer, his career not yet over, the rest of his life just beginning. mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles other reaction from the sports world was mixed with one popular radio host calling the news a nonstory. i really don t care. it means less than nothing to me that there is a gay player now out in the nba. there are plenty of gay people in america. you have to figure some of them are playing sports. while reaction has been mostly positive, even prompting
a phone call from president obama saying he was impressed by collins courage, chris brassard drew fire for these comments on outside the lines. i believe that is walking in open rebellion to god and to jesus christ. espn later apologized calling his comments a distraction. collins revealed his number, 98, is an out spoken sign of solidarity with the gay community. the year matt shepherd was killed in a gay hate crime. shepherd s mother, judy, said that news made her cry. she was honored turning to the boss tom marathon and bombing investigation. fbi agents visited tamerlan tsarnaev s widow and collected a dna sample to compare it to female dna found on one of the bomb fragments used in the marathon attack. that dna could have come from