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about their testimony. even more stunning, an account the special counsel. that the president asked white some of these things just seem house counsel don mcgahn to put like this is what guilty people out a statement saying he was do. but this is difficult. never asked by the president to we don t know all the answers and it s really difficult to fire mueller when an account untangle. detailing that the president had we know the people who were done just that appeared in the involved in this meeting had a lot of different interests. new york times several weeks there are middle eastern ago. from that times account, the partners who want to drive a wedge between russia and iran. special counsel in the russia there are people we know investigation has learned of two putin had an interest in conversations in recent months in which president trump asked key witnesses about matters they cultivating relationships with donald trump going back years. discussed with investigators. we know t
2010, which was a plan called red map. it was a national program, but in places like alabama, it was very local, very practical, and it ended up being a big deal for a long time. the top republican in the alabama legislature later wrote a book about it, explaining how it worked in that state, which is part hoff wof why we have ane peek at what happened here. he s now in prison, which is an awkward footnote, but that s how it goes. it s pretty simple, the plan, the alabama party quietly solicited funding from rich republican donors from all over the country and they secretly funneled the those donations into individual low-profile state house and state senate races in alabama. and they pick ed the races they were supporting with this national money with the specific goal of winning control of the state legislature for the republican party, right? we think of alabama as a red state, as a state that s almost unilaterally republican controlled and has been for a long time. but that s not t
states senate, the amount of crazy that has been let loose in the republican party is not lost on them. it s despiriting, it s depressing to many of them. and for republicans went through this cycle in 2010, 2012. whether it was, you know, congressman aiken, he had the legitimate rain comment, kristine o donnell, the witch from dl delaware. there was six or seven u.s. senate seats that republicans would have won had they nominated candidates who weren t completely crazy. they were rejected in the general election. we may see that skoocycle repea itself here in 2018. the party had it under control in 2014, 2016, but as john kennedy once said, the problem with riding the tiger is sometimes you wind up inside the tiger. and i think snaf wof that was i
they had been asked to weigh in on this executive order. they had been asked to review it for form and legality. if the department of justice, if their office of legal counsel was given a heads up so to speak about this and asked to review it, wouldn t they have given you a heads up about it? normally they would. my understanding is is that they were asked not to tell us about it. the department of justice office of legal counsel was advised not to inform you specifically, the acting attorney general about this executive order? that s my understanding. do you know why you were not informed? i don t know. i wasn t informed. is that normal procedure? no. first i heard that wof that. was it don t kick this up higher in the department of justice or don t tell sally yates? i don t know all the details about that. in courts around the count, the legal challenges came the next day. sally yates had to decide what she would do. we spent the weekend and a