interview with former governor terry mcauliffe. we ll talk about everything from the russia investigation to the healthf his party when he joins me live onset. but first, the start of this week, believe it or not, marks 500 days of the trump administration, and the mueller investigation rolls on with it. this sunday morning we were presented with an evolving posture from the white house. there was the scripture of a secret legal memo that the new york times revealed, and then there was the sermon of how rudy giuliani framed it on the sunday shows. the document written by john dowd and jayekulow before giuliani joined the team asserts that the president could end the special counsel investigation, doesn t need to sit for an interview with robert mueller, could ignore a subpoena, and depending on how you interpret it, could potentially even pardon himself. but pressed to defend those claims, rudy giuliani was not exactly preaching fire and brim stone. you re making a case that he did
constitutional challenges here. that s right. so, this memo is a top to bottom set of, you know, legal claims, factual claims, arguments why he didn t obstruct justice, couldn t have obstructed jus and so forth. but the one that s really breath taking and that makes all the rest of them not matter if it s true is this vision of a president who wields absolute unrevealable control over the justice department, over the machinery of the federal law enforcement, as a result he can shutdown or director close any investigation he wants and he can pardon anyone he wants, even if the evidence shows that his motivation for doing so was corrupt and self-serving. it doesn t matter congress s law of obstruction of justice can t touch the president. the implications of that are so profound. it hearkens back to the nixonian, he can t do it because it would be illegal in our society. right. it s not just a defense, you
outrageous, very over-the-top, based on claims from the new president and you can make of those claims what you will but once again what ends up being important here is not the wild claims of the president, right? not this distracting story that the white house has injected into the national bloodstream. it s not these wild tweets by the president. what instead ends up being really newsworthy and really interesting is what that wild story has shaken loose in terms of factual claims, confirmations, and other from this administration. don t pay attention to what they re saying especially if you don t believe them pay attention to what they re doing. pay attention to what this white house has done in the immediate aftermath and there is something really important that the white house has apparently done in the immediate aftermath of this ridiculous story. do you know who this guy is on the left there? obviously the guy on the right samuel alito, don mcgann is the white house counsel.
like a weird story, it s outrageous, very over-the-top, based on claims from the new president and you can make of those claims what you will but once again what ends up being important here is not the wild claims of the president, right? not this distracting story that the white house has injected into the national bloodstream. it s not these wild tweets by the president. what instead ends up being really newsworthy and really interesting is what that wild story has shaken loose in terms of factual claims, confirmations, and other from this administration. don t pay attention to what they re saying especially if you don t believe them pay attention to what they re doing. pay attention to what this white house has done in the immediate aftermath and there is something really important that the white house has apparently done in the immediate aftermath of this ridiculous story. do you know who this guy is on the left there? obviously the guy on the right samuel alito, don mcgann is
once again what ends up being important here is not the wild claims of the president, right? not this distracting story that the white house has injected into the national bloodstream. it s not these wild tweets by the president. what instead ends up being really newsworthy and really interesting is what that wild story has shaken loose in terms of factual claims, confirmations, and other from this administration. don t pay attention to what they re saying especially if you don t believe them pay attention to what they re doing. pay attention to what this white house has done in the immediate aftermath and there is something really important that the white house has apparently done in the immediate aftermath of this ridiculous story. do you know who this guy is on the left there? obviously the guy on the right samuel alito, don mcgann is the white house counsel. his job is to advise the president.