Martin luther king jr. s friend, john lewis, gets tonights last word. Up next, new reporting white house chief of staff john kelly warned epa director skon pruitt the scandals had to end. Thats on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams and that starts now. Tonight, the president may feel relief, but hes not off the hook in the Russia Investigation. As new questions emerge about him being a subject. And legal advice for donald trump is offered up this evening on fox news. Plus what happens when Robert Mueller delivers his report . Well ask a powerful member of the Senate Judiciary committee. And reality check. Donald trump on day 440. Learning that enacting policy as president is a lot harder than delivering an Applause Line on the stump. The 11th hour on a wednesday night begins now. Although he is a subject . There was no collusion between the president and russia, so nothing has changed. We know what we did and what we didnt do. So none of this comes as much of a surprise. The Washington
joining us now is sol wisenberg former independent counsel, fox news contributor and david schoen former trump impeachment lawyer. sol, what the surrogates of the biden campaign who pass themselves off as objective lawyers what what they are now urging is this. watch. what i say is safety first. the law actually has a vehicle to hold the dangerous defendant accountable and it s called pre-trial detention. when the fines come, the judge also generally say and i promise you, mr. defendant, if you do it again for a third time, you re going into a jail cell. i have a hard time imagining donald trump making it through this trial without landing in a jail cell. wow. say that again? [laughter] laura: look at those cackling cackling people on the panel. sol, your reaction to that? they are salivating over the prospect of pre-trial detention
back before january 6th, regarding the seating of the electors, the certification of the vote, it doesn t matter because we don t live in a country where disagreements about politics or the law, land you before a federal grand jury or bankrupt you. or at least i didn t think we lived in that type of a country. until yesterday. thanks, jack. and that s the angle. me now is mike davis article three project and david schoen former trump impeachment lawyer. mike, i m watching larry tribe in our arrange gel, basically the inventor of the novel, you know, controversial legal theory that gets shot down left and right and now that s apparently a federal crime. yeah. i mean, i didn t realize that objecting to elections was a felony in the united states of america, at least it wasn t in 1968, 2,000, 2004, and 2016 when democrats objected to.
this all comes after he finally wrapped up his child support dispute over the grandchild we were just discussing that joe biden still won t acknowledge. and once that was done, hunter scurried off on the taxpayer s dime to camp david for a relaxing weekend ahead of his next court battle. this time over tax and gun charges. the u.s. attorney investigating hunter, david vice spoke out over the weekend. he denies whistleblower allegations that the probe was influenced by politics or that he was hamstrung while making prosecutorial decisions. quote, i have been granted ultimate authority over this matter including responsibility for deciding where and when and whether to file charges. but that is just not true. even in his own words. joining me is david schon former trump impeachment lawyer. david, do you believe david weiss? what is your take on it?
yes, we believed so and but we ll never know now because we weren t allowed to access it. laura: never know now. is that really accurate, too? could we learn more? well, the more we peel back this onion the more two themes emerge. one, everything that garland claimed about the supposed independence of the investigation seems tonight to have been a lie. and, two, the suggestion that this was solely a hunter biden problem was and continues to be impossible to believe. joining me now is david schoen form trump impeachment lawyer and form assistant us attorney as well. sol i want to start with you. i want you to examining what looks like doj malfeasance here especially as it relates to merrick garland and the u.s. attorney david weiss. well, merrick garland is either the most naive attorney general in the history of the