Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Comments are anything to go by. The New York Times reported that the serving White House Counsel Don Mcgahn has done more than 30 hours of voluntary interviews with the special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors. Shortly there after we got new reporting from the times about the president s personal lawyer being sqozed, for look of a better term. The Wall Street Journal is first on the story as they have bone the criminal intrigue surrounding president trumps long time lawyer Michael Cohen from the very beginning. But following the initial reporting a couple weeks ago that the potential charges Michael Cohen might be facing, now the New York Times as of yesterday and the Associated Press as of today, who have both match that had story. So the Wall Street Journal and the ap and the New York Times, all now reporting that Michael Cohens legal vulnerability may be at least in part rehated to
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Has publicly verifiable information, tread lightly. Dont go too fast around this corner. This may be someone trying to trip you up. On top of the mcgahn and cohen news, there have been a bunch of new developments today and into this evening including one that relates to this guy. Remember this guy . He is the one person who has gone to prison already. Actually served his custodial sentence in the russia scandal. His name is alex van der zwaan. Hes a lawyer that served 30 days in federal lockup as punishment for lying to investigators about his role in one of Paul Manaforts foreign lobbying gigs. It has always been possible there was a Big Biographical coincidence about him. It is totally possible its a coincidence. But one of the more intriguing details about him, who has
oligarchs. He described them as having a close relationship with putin. They said significant favors continue to be done in both directions. Quote, st
our objective. dana: you could go on and on. what do you think it was like as a white house communications team watch the president yesterday saying something that totally contradicted everything they had been saying on sanctions now. they wonder is there a way for us to destroy a lot of videotape so no one has it anymore? the vice president said what she said. the white house press secretary and secretary of state said what they said. every person speaking on behalf of this administration talked about sanctions through the prism of deterring putin and they were saying it would deter putin. the suite of sanctions. that didn t work out well. didn t actually happen and here is the president yesterday asserting that he never said any such thing and that sanctions were never meant to deter. it is incoherent. look, we were hopeful these policies would achieve x, y and z, they didn t but we still believe they will achieve a, b and c and we re moving forward
district. they ought to be taxed on making those margins or lower the price. what is happening is gas is $3 neil: you re trying to control prices. didn t richard nixon try that? that didn t work out well. i m not trying to control prices. neil: by going after their profits, you re trying to control prices. i m saying tonight try to charge an excess price when flairry americans are suffering. it s war profiteering. it s like all my sons. our americans were dieing in world war ii and went after americans that were making excess profits. you have putin committing war crimes in ukraine. americans are doing the patriotic thing. they re saying, okay, we understand gas prices have gone up. oil companies making record profits. people say that s not fair. neil: so every sector in the s&p 500 coming off a year of record profits. is this like a rotating machine gun? are you going after others that are enjoying a run up in
i won t take this dangerous trip and go to the southern border because life will be threater there. to stop that desire and that is the practical solution, there s is hubris involved in that. john: we ve tried to change many countries. that didn t work out well. gillian is a smart cookie. we ll see you sunday for fox news sunday. appreciate it. can i say we ll talk about this, the infrastructure deal that isn t a deal and focus on the crime epidemic in this country what can be done about it. we ll have a top white house official, cedric richmond. that coming up on fox news sunday. john: see you then. thanks, chris. in tijuana meantime, thousands of migrants are waiting in a tent city hoping to be grant asylum. that s where we find william la jeunesse. what is the latest? i ve been coming here five