me that the trump, donald trump s loan documents there show that he has cosigners. that s how he was able to obtain those loans. and that the cosigners are russian oligarchs. what? really question that would explain, it seems to me, every kind words donald trump has ever said about vladimir putin, if true. and i stress the if true. sean: what? really? if true. except, it wasn t true. what you just heard was complete and totally false. but just an average day at nbc news. this is what they do 365 days per year. those documents for those loans are publicly available, lawrenc lawrence. nbc news. hello. online. easily disproven. of course, his lies.
understanding of how this all started tells the american public everything they need to know, tucker. this was a hoax set up by the democrats from moment number one. it wasn t true, this investigation was about trying to figure out what happened. it was trying to back into the result that they wanted. they couldn t do that because there was nothing there. but they drug people through the mud for two years. they spread it in the media, ad nauseam him, without fail. you saw your prior guests earlier today saying the same thing. he still may be working with food and, yes, because donald trump needed to leave his lifestyle of luxury to go work for the russians rather than, because he s sick of what s going on in american politics, because he s sick of politicizing every single aspects and being willing to ruin people s lives, send american lives to fight wars for things that don t exist, all of this nonsense that you talk about, because there s no accountability in
mueller didn t find any evidence of an underlying crime. mueller said very clearly based on the office of legal counsel s office memo we would not go down that road. we were not going to do that because we couldn t accuse the president of a crime because he wouldn t be able to defend himself. those are two different things. absolutely. barr lied. he said the olc opinion was not relevant in mueller decision but it was. it wasn t true. in addition, barr has also suggested there was no evidence with regard to any involvement of the trump campaign with b he said there can t be conclusion because there was no underlying crime. he also said there wasn t evidence of any underlying crime. what mueller said today, which is very important, is that the evidence was insufficient to charge a conspiracy not that
against himself. smollett is charged with making false statements to police and if he s convicted he could face three years behind bars, if not more, actually, if they prove to be a federal crime. steve: right. exactly. that s the question is the feds apparently are looking into the fact that the threat letter was sent through the mail. news conference expected to reveal more details 10:00 a.m. eastern time. we will probably hear what was in the statement he made. actor will head to court this afternoon at 1:30 for a bond hearing. syndicated columnist and author joins us from today out in colorado springs michelle, a lot has been said about this case and a rush to judgment. so many people came out and were so supportive of him when he first told the story which as we now know was not true. right. it wasn t true. and in my experience of reporting on hate crime hoaxes over the last 20 years, when you see one social justice huxter he