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
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. About keeping President Trumps secrets but will he keep them if mueller closes a trap on stone. Were learning of another big blow to stone, a judge ordering another person close to stone to appear before the mueller grand jury, thats former stone associate Andrew Miller. He fought a subpoena from mueller, the judge, though, said no. So Andrew Miller will appear. And today trumps former Campaign Chairman faced another day in court. Prosecutors slamming Paul Manafort for a fourth day showing he lied on his taxes, lies, lies, and more lies is the story from prosecutors and lets be clear, roger stone and Paul Manafort were not coffee boys Like Team Trump has tried to dismiss another trump aide who pleaded guilty in the russia informati
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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. This will play out. Which, as of tonight, could serve as the headline for the status of everything. Still under investigation by the special prosecutor. Unclear how this will play out. Leading off our discussion now, joyce nance, former special prosecutor. And former counsel to the mayor of New York City and eugene robinson, Opinion Writer for the washington post. Hes an msnbc political analyst. And you are a former federal prosecutor also. What do you make of the giuliani conditions for the interview . Well, in fairness i was in the Civil Division of the u. S. Attorneys office. I will say that unfortunately giuliani has become someone whose career is not going to be looked at quite the same light as it was before this because he really had a storied career. And what were seeing is just
this complete disintegration of what was a credible lawyer into someone who has lost all credibility. While
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. And we already know that Robert Mueller has found links and coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of donald trump. The meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign shows there are links between the russian government and the campaign. We already know that when the russian government offered to coordinate with donald trump jr. To provide dirt on Hillary Clinton donald trump jr. Said i love it. Now, we have no idea what other links and coordination Robert Mueller has found between the russian government and the Trump Campaign. And we dont know whether any of those links and coordination constitute criminal conduct by anyone named trump. Weve watched donald trump on the Campaign Stage publicly try to link with the russian government and coord
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Trump tower meeting between allegedly his son and some russians and some other folks. And it is true that parts of that investigation have blossomed into whole new areas, such as the manafort trial, which has nothing at all to do with the original russia investigation. In fact its one of the bases that manafort asked the judge to throw that case out, that it exceeded the power of the Special Counsel. So its hard to say what exactly Kristin Davis has information about, because the scope of this investigation is so broad. Just to give a little better sense pulling back the curtain from my conversations in my day job working over at the white house, in a series of conversations i had late this week with sources close to the president , they all tell me that the president s frustration specifically as it relates to paul manafort, remember that specific case he attacked as a hoax on twitter earlier this week, is in the