Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Will decide if the president is likely to sit with Robert Mueller for an interview while at bedminster. But it might not be Donald Trumps decision to make, admitting that trump might be, quote, forced to testify on matters that occurred before he took office and that might mean real legal jeopardy for the president. That admission comes as we are learning new details about the trump mayor relationship. Bloomberg reports that the day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the Deputy Director of the fbi trump was in an Office Meeting when it was announced that mueller was announced to be the lead investigator of the campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. Trump blasted session for not knowing the announcement was coming and
of prosecution witnesses who have all been picked for a particular reason. they lay out a pattern and a narrative of who paul manafort is. he s someone who spent a lot of money on his lifestyle and was so desperate to hang on to that lifestyle that he was willing to exaggerate his lifestyle to get bang loans and then deflate it to get taxes. he didn t care who he took down in the process or what dirty characters head to work with to get there. what we ll see going forward is the defense is going to try again and again to discredit witnesses, particularly rick gates. we now know he will testify. the prosecution said yesterday they have every reason to bring him forward and intend on doing sophomore they want to paint rick gates as the lynch pin in the prosecution s argument and show he s not someone who can be trusted. for those reasons we want to
i m laughing over here because i know you ve had to follow this as a big story. this is a massive franchise, the real house wicwives. it s not a small case. no, it s not. if convicted on all of these charges, they could go to prison for up to 50 years. fifty? 5-0. 50. bank fraud, mail fraud, loan application fraud charges, lots of different things that are all spelled out in this indictment. it is not a small case. it definitely isn t. you just spoke about it, some of the things that they alleged that they were making up incomes for themselves in order to get bang loans, in order to get home loans, in order to get and then saying it live on tv, right? evidence to the whole country. well, during the first season at one point, she was shopping for furnishing her new home and had a wad of money and spent $120,000, it seemed, in cash to