Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright lies and a great many of them are ploys designed to hijack the conversation, distract the media or troll the notion. Up front, this is why weaver doing Something Different tonight. President trump is telling the Attorney General to shut down the mueller probe. Hes stating it in public and in writing that Jeff Sessions should stop the probe now. To be clear, if donald trump made that order in a private meeting with Jeff Sessions, or on a phone call to the doj or held a Big Press Conference on
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Messages lend credence to the message wealthy donors paid for favors for americas top diplomats and ordinary americans are left to fend for themselves. My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces. I made policy decisions based on what i thought was right. I know there is a lot of smoke and no fire. In a moment, well speak with former Justice Department lawyer shannon kauffman. First, we go to trace ghallager with the details, trace . If youre connecting dots, this line of emails continues to draw a bold line and were given to abc news by the Group Citizens united. In one exchange top clinton officials talk about special seating for a up coming state Department Lunch and names names including Western Union ceo and Rockefeller Foundation president dr. Judith roden, requesting that roden be seated at Vice President joe bidens table to which huma abedin responded, quote, ill ask. When asked about the Clinton Foundation trying to get prime seats to a lunch for a f
he wants a public punching bag. i know we get to the fact where we say everything he says is mularkey, but he s got his facts wrong. brennan was gone from government before a special counsel was named. that doesn t matter to them. facts doesn t matter. we shouldn t be i hear your point that we re blinded by the stupidity. we re blinded by the stupidity of rudy giuliani. they want to find a way to have a face with someone who will go on tv the next night andy gauge back on mueller. and let s remember, jewel aunau jew giuliani, the reason he s gone on this tv blitz saying things that are wrong and not making sense and making claims about foreign policy that the white house does not co-sign, remember, he said the president supports regime change in iran. rudy giuliani said that. the reason he s been able to get
by one hundredth of a percent, i end up getting pinocchios, right. false stories all made up, lies, lies. no witnesses. no nothing. all big lies. i better say think, otherwise they ll give you a pinocchio. and just remember, what you re seeing and what you re reading is not what s happening. i don t like pinocchios. i m joined by mike lupika. margaret, why is it according to the fact checkers getting worse? well, he may feel more cornered as the manafort trial begins, as, you know, giuliani has waited 11 days for a response from mueller to his offers of an interview and what might be in there. which may mean that he s a target or not. and just the pressure of the
committee at the same time that robert mueller was hired. and that s the way it was done in the nixon days. they had the house and senate actually doing their jobs, and investigating. this is and has been evidence of obstruction of justice going all the way back to the comey firing, at least. it s shameful it s not being investigated. he ought to be out of office by now. and i know that you speak as someone who s running for a senate seat. we re getting a window into what you would do if in that body. cynthia, take a listen to how donald trump used to say he would deal with these type of matters. i said on the department of justice i would stay uninvolved. now, i may get involved at some point if it gets worse. what does it say to you about the case against him if he is now getting more involved in the week of his campaign chairman s trial? you know, i think there s a couple of reasons. they re pretty interesting legally. one is, giuliani dropped this little gem in his unhinged