The economic recovery is sputtering. Theres no deal between congress and the white house. Mitch mcconnell seems casual about that. Hes tweeting things but not taking ak. Its against that backdrop that we got word tonight that donald trump will hold a News Conference from his golf club in new jersey in minute now where hes taking a nice long weekend. Hes been threatening an executive action to address covid relief but its unclear what he can do without congressional approval. Millions are struggling to pay their rent or buy food for their families after federal unploim benefits and rent relief expired last week. On tovp that, todays disappointing july jobs report shows whatever marginal recovery we have seen in the economy up now has lost its momentum. I do want to start with Associated Press white house reporter. This was a last minute call that donald trump was going to take time off the tee to talk to the nation. Do we know what hes going to be talking about . Hi. Im coming to you fr
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. General under president clinton and former federal prosecutor. Julia, i will have you play a few roles for me tonight because you do also cover the Justice Department. Jeff sessions in the room with the president when he is told that Robert Mueller is going to be Special Counsel, according to bloomberg news. Jeff sessions offered his Rec Resignation in that moment. I think the idea that Robert Mueller had been appointed was pretty obvious right there. He saw the writing on the wall, that it was because he had recused himself from this investigation that this had been allowed to happen, that Rod Rosenstein was allowed to appoint this Special Counsel. The way we all see it and the logical way to see it is the appointment of Robert Mueller was because of the firing of jim comey. It was actually the president s decision to fire jim comey, not Jeff Sessions decision. But knowing donald trump and i
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Jeopardy for the president. Were learning more about the trumpmueller relationship. The day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an Oval Office Meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. The president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over Golf Club Fees could now be investigating him, the person said. Now, we dont know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. But we do know that Christopher Wrey wasnt named until a month after. Read on the man, he knew he would also be
Donald trump knew about the meeting would have been very big news. Donald trump always denying that he knew about the meeting before or knew about the meeting after until it became a public controversy. Yeah. According to the reporting tonight, cohen is claiming that trump was informed about the offer of the meeting, not only in front of him but in front of several other people, which would mean several potential other witnesses. According to this reporti ining tonight, it was donald trump jr. Michael cohen says that he and all the other people there then heard donald trump sr. Assent to the meeting and say it should go forward. He approved it happening. If thats the case, this is this is very serious, not just in terms of what this means about Michael Cohens case and who is leaking what. This could be a very serious criminal matter for the president. And immediate perjury case for the likes of congress for donald trump jr. Because he told one of the congressional committees that he ab
Meeting would have been very big news. Donald trump always denying that he knew about the meeting before or knew about the meeting after until it became a public controversy. Yeah. According to the reporting tonight, cohen is claiming that trump was informed about the offer of the meeting, not only in front of him but in front of several other people, which would mean several potential other witnesses. According to this reporting tonight, it was donald trump jr. Michael cohen says that he and all the other people there then heard donald trump sr. Assent to the meeting and say it should go forward. He approved it happening. If thats the case, this is this is very serious, not just in terms of what this means about Michael Cohens case and who is leaking what. This could be a very serious criminal matter for the president. And immediate perjury case for the likes of congress for donald trump jr. Because he told one of the congressional committees that he absolutely never ever told his fat