Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Justice that the president s lawyers have said publically and said it once again today that the president will not answer any questions about obstruction of justice and other issues that the special prosecutor Robert Mueller would like to question the president about. Regular viewers of this hour know i for one believe President Trump was never going to submit to any questions by my prosecutor under any circumstances, even back when the president said the chance of him doing that was 100 . So he said those things under oath. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of this . 100 . I would be glad to tell him exactly what i just told you, jim. 100 . That was a year ago. And now the chances of the president submitting to an interview with Robert Mueller is almost officially publically zero percent. Although the president s lawyers continue to play the public game
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Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Undoubtedly, hes going to confirm all the suspicions mounting for the past year that hes been using his chairmanship to protect the president. We recall last year when he viewed some things he viewed as problematic in those intelligence reports. He rushed to the white house, briefed the president about it before even briefing his committee. He was forced to step aside from the Russia Investigation on his Committee Last year, but he still wielded considerable influence from the outside. He stopped democratic attempts to subpoena witnesses, to get more records, to schedule witness interviews. Behind the scenes, he mounted his own investigation to try to sew doubt on the fbi, the Russia Investigation, the mueller probe. That led to the release of the nunes memo from earlier this year, criticizing how that fisa warrant was obtained to monitor carter page. Democrats say this is all part of this effort by devin nunes to
And when their father the following morning, poppy. So the airline for their part saying they followed all the policies that they have on the books for these unaccompanied minors, but this dad, not too happy. No. All right. Keep us posted, rene. Thank you for that. And thank you, everyone, for being with me today. Im poppy harlow in new york. Ill see you back here tomorrow morning. At this hour with kate bolduan starts now. Hello, everyone, im kate bolduan. Robert mueller, you are on the clock, or thats what Rudy Guiliani would like you to think. President trumps legal team is telling the Special Counsel to wrapup the Russia Investigation within the next three weeks, or else. Or else what . That is not entirely clear. But this is part of the very latest round in the game of cat and mouse that has been playing out for months and months and months about the possibility of trump sitting down for an interview with the Special Counsel. Guiliani says its now muellers move with a deadline fas
Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Something extraneous to the facts of the investigation just to get them to lie. That is clearly not whats going on here. Mueller has 100 valid reasons to want to talk to trump. What we have here is a perjury risk. Its a great risk. Thats because trump isnt capable of telling the truth, and particularly when he knows he is in trouble if he does. So if itts not a perjury trap, which is a technical term. This audio leaked of devin nunes, its not surprising he is carrying water for the president , but it is surprising he would say on the record out loud, out loud to a number of donors, that it ultimately Doesnt Matter What Mueller comes out with, that sessions Wont Unrecrews Ause and its j. Its just up to us to protect the president. Thats saying if Robert Mueller comes back and says we found conspiracy, we found whatever, it doesnt matter for the republicans . Is that a widely held belief or it is an
September, then we have a very, very serious violation of the Justice Department rules that you shouldnt be conducting one of these investigations in the 60day period. There has been an informal tradition in the Justice Department. But in a recent report the Justice Department Inspector General noted the 60day rule is not written or described in any Department Day policy or regulation and does not call to an end for active investigations. Giuliani also attacked the Special Counsels motives. He knows the answers to every question he wants to ask. He is going to ask him did you do you think we are fools . You want to trap him into
perjury. The reality is that he doesnt need to ask a single question on obstruction, he has all the answers. The president is not going to change his testimony. Stop the nonsense. You dont have a case. President trump joining in on the Attack Tweeting today, this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and or conflicted i