Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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in the world than even the russia probe where everyone knows he s lied a lot about a lot of things. what does it tell you, to pick up on margaret s insight there, that he s lying so much in that way, as a kind of aggression? yeah, but i don t think it s aggression, ari. i think mueller is like a boxer who keeps cutting off the ring on trump. you re right to bring up the bertherism thing. his political career was built on that lie. and then he s been going on and on. and we can call it on him all we want. but there s enough suckers out there who would believe this president if he told them water wasn t wet. he tocontinually says the medias the enemy of the people. you know what happens, you get goon squads like in florida last night. trump s supporters according to a new poll say they actually rely on him, 91% rely on trump more than any other source for
mueller investigation. it s heating up. and so this is a guy who lies for reasons. i mean, you know, he started with a lie, the berther lie, the huge lie. it worked. yeah. he got hooked. and then he lies kind of recreationally, for no reason at all, just a natural thing to do. and he can t really help himself. well, it s important you bring up bertherism, mike, because that was a factual assault, a lie, that also related to a kind of cultural ethnic assault that other republicans, many as i ve said on the show before to their credit were not engaging in. john mccain famously rebutting that during the campaign. and trump stood up and saw that s a market opportunity in the republican party and i can do that. and this washington post fact check, i want to say, it s sad to show, but this is part of what we re doing. when you divide up the lies you see there are more on immigration and foreign policy, relating to the other countries