Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. A lot to get into. Stay tuned, its time for our breaking news opening monologue. We are going to start, we are going to go very slow tonight because a lot of new information. Robert mueller and his team of partisan investigators, they want to face off with the president of the United States number but today President Trumps attorneys flatly rejected, rightly so, muellers interview terms. They have countered with a proposal of their own. In a statement, the attorney for President Trump, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote we are restating what we have been saying for months, it is time for the office of the Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further delay. The former mayor is not predicting that the investigation could be over by september 1st. He will be right here on the show with more details in just a few moments. Without a doubt, President Trump should be aware. Mueller, his merry band of antitrump deep
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, lets be clear and fair. Anger, ego, incompetence, thats not enough. The higher bar here is corrupt intent in a persons mind. So mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. And tonight trumps lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, theyre not accepting this full interview yet. So theyre using two tactics. Leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio callin show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. We give you the unusual scene this morning. Rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay sekulow on sekulows r
Is not the truth. Is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception . Its time to go deep. Lets get after it. In an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. All this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white House Counsel cooperated with muellers probe more than trump might have known. Here to discuss that and much more, former Attorney General michael mukasey. Judge, good to have you as always. Good to be with you. So if you were to hear that the president has decided, im taking over this probe. Im taking it over. What would your reaction be . I would shake myself and wake up. Just a dream . Yeah. Can he, or should he not . I i have no idea whether he can. I cant believe that he can. Hed have to fire mueller in the
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Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Cut off all ties with Christopher Steele because he was leaking and lying about potentially classified information to the media again to peddle his lies to influence the outcome of our election. This all comes on the heels of last nights shocking report that showed that Christopher Steele was working closely with bruce ohr before and after the 2016 election, again to spread the lies from his dirty dossier. He had no faith in those lies. Throughout the highest levels of what is supposed to be our fair and unbiased justice system. Equal justice under the law, equal applications of the law. At the time, the fourth highest Ranking Member of obamas department of justice, he has since been demoted because of his unethical ties to steal and fusion gps. Sara carter, john solomon will be joining us in a moment with more details. These are shocking new developments. It is far worse than we ever thought. But first we are also currently
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Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Completely debunked the campaignrelated charges. Lets take a look. The general counsel for the clinton mob family, lanny davis, he had his client pleaded to two counts of criminality that dont exist. These Campaign Finance violations all over tv saying implicates the president directly. Re first, lets back up. It is a guilty plea. It is a plea bargain between ale prosecutor and a criminal. A criminal who doesnt want to spend the rest of his life in prison. That is not precedent. That applies only to that specific case. Nobody cites Plea Bargains for precedent. Thats number one. Number two, just because a Prosecutor Says that somebody violated a campaign law, doesnt make it so. Hes not the judge, hes not the jury. We didnt adjudicate anything. It never went to court. Thats number two. A Campaign Expenditure under our
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