Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Things that are not truthful for donald trump. We dont have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from Michael Cohen. The only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he Wasnt Recording Him when he actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few questions. One is who has the greater motive to lie here . One of the things weve learned, say, from Robert Mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. So if Michael Cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from Robert Mueller and he peddles an untrue story, hes going to get himself into a heap of trouble. On the other hand, President Trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few questions. One is who has the greater motive to lie here . One of the things weve learned, say, from Robert Mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. So if Michael Cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from Robert Mueller and he peddles an untrue story, hes going to get himself into a heap of trouble. On the other hand, President Trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a very big deal, in fact, if, a, he knew about this meeting and if he had been lying to the American People about it all along. The second thing, and dan can speak to this, is if youve got a witness who or somebody who may have some credibility
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absolutely not. let me be clear. the kids in that ineligible category were separated in the exact same way from the people say came with from the kids that were in the el gbl category as well. there is a small group in that category of around 650 at this point of children whose parents have committed some form of crime. we don t know the seriousness of that crime. and that came out today inside the courtroom. the largest portion of that group are the 431 parents that have already been kicked out of the country without the children and the children now are sitting here in the united states with no way to actually get back to those parents and the parents certainly categorically can t come back into this country to be reunited with the children. they are stranded here in the united states at this point. that s all that ineligible really means. the aclu is arguing that a lot of those parents that were deported didn t actually understand what they were doing when they signed the waiver f
means? no. absolutely not. let me be clear. the kids in that ineligible category were separated in the exact same way from the people say came with from the kids that were in the el gbl category as well. there is a small group in that category of around 650 at this point of children whose parents have committed some form of crime. we don t know the seriousness of that crime. and that came out today inside the courtroom. the largest portion of that group are the 431 parents that have already been kicked out of the country without the children and the children now are sitting here in the united states with no way to actually get back to those parents and the parents certainly categorically can t come back into this country to be reunited with the children. they are stranded here in the united states at this point. that s all that ineligible really means. the aclu is arguing that a lot of those parents that were deported didn t actually understand what they were doing when they signed