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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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. On the other hand, you know, while that seems like a petty thing and an inargable thing, that might really get under the skin of the president when it comes to somebody who has become his most important ally on capitol hill. One of the things they did on that Impeachment Discussion is they lied to their contributors with this notion that it is Senate Procedure to immediately take up a bill of impeachment from the House Of Representatives and the senate can do no other business. The House Of Representatives sent over the impeachment of a federal judge in 1988 in august. The senate didnt take up the trial until 14 months later. And even then they did it parttime, a couple of hours a day here and there. It doesnt in any way clog up the senate on the confirmation of brett kavanaugh. So my reading of that was then just lying to their enthuiasts
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the president could perjure himself only if he plans to lie and/or if he plans to cover up further what he knows he did. so it isn t a perjury trap unless the witness wants to lie about something. and it s shocking that we are at a state of affairs where the president of the united states lawyer is saying that he could commit perjury. yeah. the president s lawyer s public negotiating position is the president is so guilty of something that he will lie about it and commit perjury if he is interviewed by the mueller team. that s their public position. we re going to have to take a break here. glen, thank you for helping us. and jill will be back with us when we come back because we will get jill s legal reaction to those secret audio recordings of deven nunez. rached pl eel played these in t hour, but rachel didn t get a
jill, it certainly sounds like a game to me. they have been playing this for public relations. i agree with you that they probably never intended. and probably the most shocking thing that rudy giuliani said is that the president could perjure himself if he went in. the president could perjure himself only if he plans to lie and/or if he plans to cover up further what he knows he did. so it isn t a perjury trap unless the witness wants to lie about something. and it s shocking that we are at a state of affairs where the president of the united states lawyer is saying that he could commit perjury. yeah. the president s lawyer s public negotiating position is the president is so guilty of something that he will lie about it and commit perjury if he is interviewed by the mueller team. that s their public position.