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that. so, you know, with trump and these investigations, i think we always look at them and we re astounded by the disclosures. he asked his personal lawyer to call the department of homeland security to seize voting machines as a bunch of outside advisers who had very unusual views of power were trying to keep him in office in a coup. that is an incredible fact and really brings trump into it in a new way. but, you know, it is hard not to, as someone who has covered a lot of different versions of this story, just wonder where will it truly go because it just seems that no matter what has happened, dating back to, you know, whether it was asking don mcgahn to fire mueller or firing comey, or the michael cohen investigation where it looked
like trump was in a massive amount of trouble, trump found a way to get out of it. it is one of the things about the trump story that makes it just one of the more incredible ones i have certainly ever covered. yeah. michael schmidt, thank you. fascinating reporting. you know, david ignatius, i noticed something in the story i have noticed in other stories, too. donald trump asks staff members to cross the line and he asks staff members to do things that he knows obviously are extraordinarily wrong. it is just like michael said. he was constantly asking barr and others, don mcgahn, to fire mueller. they refused. asking ken cucinelli, seize voting machines. refused. time and time again through
trump went outside the chain of command. he went to lewandowski because he was not someone currently serving in the administration, because those people, he tried to get don mcgahn to fire mueller, he was trying to get people who were actually his official advisers to do his dirty work for him and limit sessions and the russia investigation, have sessions unrecuse himself, and they weren t doing it so he went to lewandowski because he was a private citizen and you could keep it sort of on the downlow. that s exactly the time that executive privilege should not apply. he made a choice to go outside the chain of command in doing this, because i think he knew it wasn t proper. and that s a choice he made. and now to invoke executive privilege is just particularly absurd so can jerry nadler, once lewandowski sits there and says i won t go beyond what s already in the mueller report, and he s footnoted in it throughout, can jerry nadler find a judge to
protect saudi oil? and coming up here, senator tim kaine joins us from the armed services committee bright lights, big city. elizabeth warren drawing a hauj cro huge crowd to her new york rally. corruption has taken over our government and we are running out of time. we must root it out and return our democracy to the people. and yes, i got a plan for that and white house confidential in an unprecedented move, the trump administration severely limits the testimony of his former campaign manager even though corey lewandowski never worked in the white house, on the eve of today s first impeachment hearing. corey lewandowski, we expect, we hope he doesn t lie under oath he simply has to say yes and true to the facts in the mueller report and that itself will be very damning.