as well as paul, thank you so much. fitting in a break. come can up an exclusive guest making a beat debut. bob woodward is here live. he s seen it all. we re excited to have him join us on the eve of these hearings. later in the show, a member of congress questioning muellerer questions me live. how do you actually do it? and we have aer dive what some are saying is an explicit effort to the gag mueller by trump s attorney general. i m ari melber. by trump s attorney general i m ari melber distracted teenager has the car. at subaru, we re taking on distracted driving [ping] with sensors that alert you when your eyes are off the road. the all-new subaru forester. the safest forester ever.
was it criminal? trump talked about and sent people out to let s get rid of bob mueller, the special counsel and his investigation, but it never happened. in the case of nixon, he did. let me pause you on the word you just used. to a criminal degree, you say the mueller report does show an effort to strangle the probe [yes, clearly. what should americans make of that? people are going to look at it very, very differently, and that s the beauty of this report. this is the beauty of having somebody like mueller testify. and people are focused on it, and they re going to learn from it. and where it goes i don t know. in the case of nixon, when all the evidence or the evidence up to the month nixon resigned in
chuck will be back tomorrow with more meet the press daily. stay with msnbc tomorrow as robert mueller testifies on the hill. our special coverage begins at 8:30 a.m. eastern. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. we are 15 hours it away from history right here in washington. special counsel mueller testify before congress in public on the criminal evidence against president trump for the first time. that s why pretty much whatever happens tomorrow is high stakes. democrats think mueller s appearance in the flesh will bring to life a case they say already exists on paper. the evidence that the donald trump committed crimes in office. but many of trump s defenders say they re confident in the other side of this argument. that mueller did not charge an election conspiracy, that his worst findings have been out there for months and in terms of politically damaging trump, tomorrow could be if their words
justice, which i liked. thank you, my friend. jay-z in that line says do it for the culture to let hem know. it sounds like you want bob mueller to let them know. the question is, which parts of the report are these questioners going to get at. volume 1 has good news for the white house if there s substantive questioning, the focus is on that. the american public may go the whole thing that was started to see if the election was like a crime, that could be news if they focus on wait a minute, donald trump s own lawyers so that s like his guy got an order so flat lit illegal in his view he didn t just plan to resign. i called his own criminal defense lawyer. do people know about that? certainly lots of people don t. a significant portion of americans don t know that mueller wrote a report. trump s relationships with lawyers could be an interesting through line for tomorrow. there s a section in the report
where it describes one of trump s lawyers calling one of michael flynn s lawyers and in this my mouthed way and hemming and hawing and suggesting flynn might get a pardon. i spoke with a doj official upwards of two years about the relationship trump had with lawyers and had person based on their knowledge of his history and having a sense early on, said look, trump view lawyers like they re tools and sledgehammers that he can use to get his way. some lawyers are tools. eleanor, you wanted to disagree with something. yeah, the roy cohn image always comes up when you think of donald trump. but it s a good thing that a light is going to be shined on this report that says if we could have exonerated the president from wrongdoing we would have done so and we didn t. mr. barr in a burst of candor recently said he was puzzled why