investigation into the handling of presidential documents. the move coming as a surprise to just about everyone. dana: that includes the former president. he was in new york at the time and he says he had been cooperating on the records investigation and argues it was not necessary to raid his home. bill: all of this, dana, setting off a political firestorm as you can imagine. the president s supporters and allies gathering outside mar-a-lago saying it is no coincidence it happened with the mid-terms less than 100 days from today. dana: team fox coverage this morning. jhonattan turley is here with legal analysis. jacqui heinrich at the white house and david lee miller at trump tower and david spunt is at the justice department. no doubt they are being quite tight lipped but a lot of questions, david. no doubt a lot of questions specifically aimed at the officials in this building. though they are not saying anything at this point. former president donald trump was the
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. The other question is there are still missing facts, which is the phone call don junior made to the blocked number and what happened after the meeting that are going to be really important in determining whether there is, in fact, legal jeopardy. You have to remember this is one data point. Were focused on it because of don juniors testimony, his involvement of the emails that came out. And we have Public Knowledge of it. Exactly. Theres another wrinkle and this came out last week is that there may have apparently been a premeeting and one of the attendees may be rick gates, todays star witness in the manafort trial. If he was there at that meeting he has told mueller and his Team Everything about that meeting. What i see with this shift with trump is what has been going on repeatedly in trump world, which is when they sense that theres some bad news coming out, they try to change the story, admit to a little bit, but not the worst part. It star
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Argument that he can only be impeached and he could actually be subject to a criminal prosecution and i think that has to be of concern to his father not only because of dirt on Hillary Clinton is likely something of value and the federal election laws, both the statutes and regulations, say you cant be Foreign Nationals cant muck around in our elections. If youre a Foreign National and youre volunteering on a campaign, you cant throw in 10 for a pizza. Surely theres some liability for mr. Trump junior and the fact that they actually didnt get good dirt does not mean that he didnt solicit it. Weve all had somebody ring the doorbell and say buy candy. If you dont buy the candy doesnt make it soliciting and that is what is unlawful under
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Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. A lot to get into. Stay tuned, its time for our breaking news opening monologue. We are going to start, we are going to go very slow tonight because a lot of new information. Robert mueller and his team of partisan investigators, they want to face off with the president of the United States number but today President Trumps attorneys flatly rejected, rightly so, muellers interview terms. They have countered with a proposal of their own. In a statement, the attorney for President Trump, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote we are restating what we have been saying for months, it is time for the office of the Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further delay. The former mayor is not predicting that the investigation could be over by september 1st. He will be right here on the show with more details in just a few moments. Without a doubt, President Trump should be aware. Mueller, his merry band of antitrump deep
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Cut off all ties with Christopher Steele because he was leaking and lying about potentially classified information to the media again to peddle his lies to influence the outcome of our election. This all comes on the heels of last nights shocking report that showed that Christopher Steele was working closely with bruce ohr before and after the 2016 election, again to spread the lies from his dirty dossier. He had no faith in those lies. Throughout the highest levels of what is supposed to be our fair and unbiased justice system. Equal justice under the law, equal applications of the law. At the time, the fourth highest Ranking Member of obamas department of justice, he has since been demoted because of his unethical ties to steal and fusion gps. Sara carter, john solomon will be joining us in a moment with more details. These are shocking new developments. It is far worse than we ever thought. But first we are also currently
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