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. Mueller outlining their defenses of the president on Obstruction Of Justice. The key element of their defense was that President Trump did not know that his National Security adviser Michael Flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. James comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let it go. The Trump Defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute Obstruction Of Justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating Michael Flynn. But murray waass reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by White House Counsel Don Mcgahn showing e
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
fact they have known for a long time is a troubling fact because when you try to have to establish obstruction of justice you have to show that the person acted with a corrupt intent. and if president trump knew and learned even just before he asked jim comey to stand down on the flynn investigation i think there could be some powerful evidence of the corrupt intent that s necessary. according to murray waa 16789 s reporting this is very clear. people familiar with the matter have told me that both priebus and mcgahn have confirmed in separate interviews with the special counsel that they had told trump that flynn was under investigation by the fbi before he met with comey. 24 dismantd lz the key element in the trump lawyers letter to the prosecutor about why donald trump con have committed obstruction of justice in the flynn matter sxwlp but the trump team s theory from the beginning did not make a lot of sense. their position is trump knew there was no longer an investigation, and
told trump that flynn was under investigation by the fbi before he met with comey. 24 dismantd lz the key element in the trump lawyers letter to the prosecutor about why donald trump con have committed obstruction of justice in the flynn matter sxwlp but the trump team s theory from the beginning did not make a lot of sense. their position is trump knew there was no longer an investigation, and then he walks into a meeting and says hey, by the way, i hope you can see fit to let go, parentheses, an investigation that s not going on. that doesn t make any sense. but that s the trump team s position. in a way this bombshell is something that lakes a lot more sense than the trump team s original theory, which is trump believes there s no investigation, trump goes into meeting with comey and asks comey to let go of an investigation that as far as trump is aware does not exist. and so john, this reporting