she can t lead this coalition who are saying use the powers and resources at our dgs possis. it is her job to keep this president in check. and john capehart and others are arguing that her job is also to hold the house and that holding the house means hold willing t the midwest, holding the seats that flipped from republican to democrat in 2018. to hold those voters who might be against impeachment. it is memorial day weekend. in spades you say play to win. and she needs to play to win. this is not about politics. this is about the sanctity of our country. and we are a young democracy. and our democracy has never been tested like this before. right now we are seeing what is happening when you elect a white supremacist to the highest office of the land. we re seeing in our modern history, right? and for everybody said the civil
we ve also started talking to north korea directly. we have had direct talks at very high levels, extremely high levels with north korea. joining our discussion now john mclaughlin, former acting director of the cia and an msnbc national security analyst. john, what is the precedent here for american high level government contact with north korea? we haven t had this kind of high-level contact, lawrence, i think director pompeo is the first senior american to meet with this particular north korean leader. presidents have always used the intelligence channel and frequently used cia directors to carry messages privately, secretly to individuals where they re trying to work out a problem. so it s not unusual in that
team. this is just completely inconsistent with the way donald trump thinks. and that is why harry said his head might spin around 360 degrees. i think it might just explode. john capehart either one would be fun. jonathan, there is a report tonight saying the president is will use the division of lane they re is set up for this to make sure that the prosecutors handling the cohen case do not see any of the privileged communication that might exist in some of the harvest of the raid. the president does not believe that those lawyers will ethically will carry that out. he is employing tonight as his defense counsel lawyers who have been involved in the southern district of new york in that very same unit doing that very same thing.
that first of all, just because your law partners have signed this letter, the heads of your law firm have signed this letter, he doesn t understand that you might not necessarily agree with that. he doesn t understand that you might be a democrat, somebody who has given to democratic candidates and also be a lawyer who could go after democrats as well as republicans because that s what prosecutors do. they want scalps. they don t want to go for their team. this is just completely inconsistent with the way donald trump thinks. and that is why harry said his head might spin around 360 degrees. i think it might just explode. john capehart either one would be fun. jonathan, there is a report tonight saying the president is will use the division of lane they re is set up for this to
team is suing stormy daniels for $20 million. joining us now is nick ackermon, msnbc john capehart. new to the table jonathan capehart, i m going to get your reactions to all of the lawyering and cross-lawyering and now denying that he s speaking for the president. do you see how mute i am sh. yeah. i feel like i m channeling the american people. last night andrew mccabe through what we re going through right now, i m speaking for the president, i m not speaking for the president, i m speaking for the president, i m not speaking for your the president, by the way, i m trying to move the case from here to there, people can t follow these things. it s part and parcel of the administration, i think, to exhaust the american people that