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all this is ken vogel of the new york times and also the law firm of butler rocca and dershowitz, former federal prosecutor georgetown law 0 professor and legal analyst paul butler. former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york also an msnbc legal analyst mimi rocca, and professor emeritus at harvard law school, alan dershowitz. he is the author of the book the case against impeaching trump. thanks to all of you for being with us on this sunday night. ken vogel, i want to start with you just in terms of what we ve been seeing out of the white house from this president today. what prompted this flurry of tweets? well, clearly he s fairly under a lot of pressure. michael cohen is coming out publicly and releasing the tape of the conversation regarding a payoff to a woman who alleged he had an affair with her, has seemed to set him off in a way we haven t seen hi
no question about it. talk to your doctor about chantix. welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live in washington from 7:00 to 9:00 eastern. tonight the president lashes out against robert mueller claiming conflicts of interest. plus russia gate travels to the worst airport gate in america. don junior and robert mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at reagan national airport. at the same time the president s inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. later we ll talk to senator chris van hollen about matters
foreign and domestic. he floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. but we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a greatest hits of grievances against special counsel robert mueller. quote, is robert mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a ver
that s what i mean. you don t think that russia spent money to try to develop this case against bill broaderror the zip brothers or whoever this information? don t you think the people from wikileaks and the people from manning and don t you think they spent money and the pentagon papers? it costs money to get information. that was not provided to the campaign. that was provided directly to the campaign. if you re trying to target a person, you can stretch the law that way. but that s not the way civil liberties lawyers should approach a problem of criminal law. the concept of it requires that you define the criminal law in
What mr. dershowitz was saying. yes, if you think that is a violation of campaign finance violation, knowledge of campaign finance violation, and an effort to cover that up by mischaracterizing and miss reporting on a federal election commission, filing that there was something of value, sought or received, from a foreign power. okay. now that s a good question. 9 answer is that something of value is first amendment protected information. then the campaign finance law has to be construed as it was intended, to cover money and other material payments. but if it were construed to cover information to be used in a campaign, it would violate the first amendment. a foreign power spent money to develop and then provide that was not public information. i don t understand that. what money that s what i mean. you don t think that russia spent money to try to develop this case against bill broaderror the zip brothers or whoever this information?