former attorney general michael mukasey is here. welcome back to primetime. great to have you. great to be with you. happy thanksgiving in advance. and to you. i don t like that clinton and that comey, find a way to go get them. is that something a president can say to the doj? can say, i suppose he can say it. it ain t going to happen. why? it didn t, but why? didn t because nobody at that department would follow that order. this is an echo of something that happened before. recall he had a conversation with don mcgahn. told don mcgahn to call up the doj and get something done. mcgahn said i m not doing it. and you know what? if you order me to do it i m leaving. what does that tell you about the president in terms of what he knows about how power is supposed to be used? is this about misfeasance or potential malfeasance? the difference for the people at home, is this him just not knowing you don t do this or is this him saying i know what my power is and i want to u
the chess board there, and there s this stuff about the white house counsel, don mcgahn, clouding the idea of what s going on with the probe that the white house counsel had to stand up to the president and his impulse to use the doj as his personal strongarm to go after hillary clinton and reportedly james comey. busy night. so let s get into why the president says what he says and do does it connect to rationale? with former communications director anthony scaramucci. always good to have you, welcome back to primetime. happy thanksgiving, chris, good to be here. help me with this one. you could say the world is a messy place, sometimes we re friends with people that we don t like everything they do. we are going to take actions, but there s a political chess board here. saudi arabia is very important to us. and we re going to hold by our values and our objectives. he said none of those things. he grossly exaggerated the money on the table. and as you probably know, you may not
power. that could get you impeached. don t do it. you re going to have a problem. you could have an outcry from the membership of the doj. it s just got bad written all over it. however, his counsel, mcgahn s counsel, then says but the counsel mcgahn has no recollection of the president ever ordering this to be done. what a helpful thing to say to the president. he never ordered it, but i gave him this advice anyway, that you ll be impeached if you do this. frankly, mike, the two things don t go together. if you have to write me a memo like this saying if you do this, clearly i m doing more than asking you for an opinion. not necessarily. come on. you write a memo like that if you want a record of what you told the president. yes, but in what context? that s not a hey mike, do me a favor, if i wanted to go after them, what are my options? you don t write me back a memo, you ll get impeached, this is abuse of power, don t do it, settle down. given the history here where there
point. but it would require doj permission of a man named matthew whitaker. at least for now. so, that is a lot to digest. watch this again on twitter. we ll take it forward as the special probe comes back with any kind of indication of action or inaction but something i want you to keep your eye on, there s a chance that this probe could wrap up and a report could be issued about collusion and the president, but the probe not be over. that they could still be tieing up other avenues. that could happen. so, keep your eyes open about it. we heard there the president for the first time today on his daughter, ivanka s, e-mail controversy. the way he tried to explain it away versus his hillary clinton condemnation. what is that? is it hypocrisy at its highest? that s a good starting point for a great debate. next. and i found out that i ma from the big toe alian. of that sexy italian boot! so this holiday season it s ancestrydna per tutti! order your kit now at ancestry.com
brothers. why does the president put so much on this one man? why? we re lucky to have a great mind to walk us through the implications of much of this tonight. former attorney general michael mukasey is here. welcome back to primetime. great to have you. great to be here. happy thanksgiving in advance. and to you. i don t like that clinton and comey, find a way to go get them. is that something a president can say to the doj? can say, i suppose he can say it, it ain t going to happen. why? it didn t, but why? didn t because nobody at that department would follow that order. this is an echo of sting thomet that happened before. recall he add a conversation with don mcgahn. told don mcgahn to call up the d oj and get something done. if you order me to do it, i m leaving. what does that tell you about