So glad to have you with us. And we have breaking news. The president angry, lashing out, going off on twitter by attack Robert Mueller, the free press, and even threatening a Government Shutdown if democrats wont agree to pay for his border wall. The president arrived at the white house just a few minutes ago. Its unclear right now if hell continue his tirade once he settled in for the night. Its also unclear what exactly has set him off. But it could be a number of things, as weve told you. His former attorney and loyal friend Michael Cohen appears to be ready to flip on him. Sources say cohen is willing to tell mueller that trump knew in advance about that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting, the one with the russians, Offering Dirt on hillary clinton. And on top of that the president has learned along with everyone else that cohen has been secretly recording their private conversations for who knows how long. We played one of those tapes for you last week. Its the one where trump and
house counsel. a longtime republican, who was responsible for shepherding through donald trump s judicial nominations. his testimony was consistent with what he told robert mueller. and congress, they re done. they ve done all they can. i think it took them too long. i think jerry nadler got slow played. it doesn t mean it s over. merrick garland has a job to do. i understand it s a difficult thing, but sometimes as a prosecutor, you have to do difficult things if they re also the right thing. this has been such a crazy period, is there, i don t know, is there intention just to sort of, to go easy on everyone, to bend over backwards to prove they re not out to get the former administration and in
counsel don mcgahn confirming to congress that the former occupant of the oval office pressured him to fire robert mueller. he said he refused to do that, and considered that a point of no return. transcripts of his closed-door testimony released by house democrats today. elie honig joins us, good to see you. don mcgahn said he felt perturbed and trapped by the request for him to fire robert mueller mid-investigation. this is obstruction 101, no? yeah. perturbed and trapped are understatements. this is the single most flagrant instance of obstruction of justice.
donald trump instructed don mcgahn to fire robert mueller. he kept coming back, saying get it done. eventually trump said, i need you to lie about it and make a false document about it. i don t care how strongly you want to defend donald trump, no president has to power to instruct someone to create a false document. mcgahn says that trump told him, you had better deny this. what does that mean? he s telling him to say something that is false, he s instructing his counsel? yeah. it s the coverup. donald trump is telling his white house counsel, i need to you make up a fake story. that s why i m looking down the street at the justice department. it s taken congress two years to
the purpose that we all have, and i hope that first and foremost we all are patriotic americans who when times are tough, we will focus on what s important and do our jobs. president trump couldn t do what he does without the staff who does it for him. don mcgahn showed that. he ordered don mcgahn to fire robert mueller and don mcgahn didn t do it. this director of national intelligence has done what the president wants. he could have gone the other way, mcguire could have gone the other way. the justice department has done what the president wants on this whistleblower report. what should be the penalties for the people who don t approach this work the way don mcgahn did and refuse to do the illegal things that the president wants them to do? well, let me just say, number one, if you re breaking the law, you re breaking the law and you should be held accountable, and i think that is something we should be looking at every step of the way of holding people accountable. because ever