Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Rudy giuliani told politico today that the trump team wants to rule outofbounds about half of what Robert Mueller wants to discuss the president. Quote, we dont want questioning on obstruction. They would have to concede that. Robert mueller would not be allowed to ask President Trump what he said to james comey about the fbi investigation of michael flynn. James comey says that the president told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. The only area that the trump team would consider allowing is how donald trump and his campaign interacted with russians during the president ial campaign. A week after reports that trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump knew about the meeting in tru
Affiliates caught up with one woman who said she is furious with the president s request in nearly 4 billion in Government Funds to handle the situation. Its not right. Now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the white house to help feed and house them. What about the [ bleep ] kids here in our neighborhood . In our country . All these kids really . Why cant this he go back . Im sorry that the parents are in poor Living Conditions or surroundings or whatevers going on out there, i dont care. I care about whats going on right here in my own backyard, my neighborhood. Now later today Homeland Security secretary jay johnson gets a firsthand look at a facility that will house undocumented immigrants in artesia, new mexico. He may not get a warm reception in the state. New mexicos republican governor Suzanna Martinez blasted not just the president in the border crisis but her own party at as well, pointing her finger at congress for failing to get anything done. She wrote the immig
Theres been a lot of questions about the girls but what about the babies. The Trump Administration has decided to call them tender age children. The crisis here in our southern border is growing everyday and it becomes more grim and more difficult to bear everyday. Nbc news and msnbc have sent dozens of correspondents to try to capture this story, to cover this story and we have been doing it from one end of the border to the other, we have had people in san diego all the way across the border to right here where i am tonight in brownsville, texas, on the east end of our southern border. We also have correspondents in Central America tracking this story, tracking the story of how these immigrants are coming north, including the story of what are now thousands of imMigrant Children being held in some of these mysterious Detention Centers. One of them is right behind me. Its one of the largest ones, the largest one for children. Some of these Detention Centers are in unknown locations. I
Could fix the problem. The president signs a piece of paper ending his own policy of separating children from parents at the border. But tonight at a rally in duluth he goes back and promises toughness on the board e. In washington the criminal investigation goes on. This evening new details on the trump tower meeting with the russians, the reporter who broke the story is our guest tonight. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from new york. Day 517 of the Trump Administration. It saw the president cave in the face of a hue mantarian and publicity disaster of his own making. Here was the scene this afternoon. The president in the oval office flanked by his loyal Vice President and secretary of Homeland Security. The president casts himself in an almost heroic role of ending a policy he started. Were signing an executive order, i consider to be a very important executive order. Its about keeping Families Together while at the same time being sure that we have a very powerfu
This evening new details on the trump tower meeting with the russians, the reporter who broke the story is our guest tonight. The 11th hour begins now. Good evening once again from new york. Day 517 of the Trump Administration. It saw the president cave in the face of a humanitarian and publicity disaster of his own making. Here was the scene this afternoon. The president in the oval office flanked by his loyal Vice President and secretary of Homeland Security. The president casts himself in an almost heroic role of ending a policy he started. Were signing an executive order, i consider to be a very important executive order. Its about keeping Families Together while at the same time being sure that we have a very powerful, very strong border. I didnt like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. Its a problem thats gone on for many years, as you know, through many administrations, and were working very hard on immigration. Its been left out in the cold. I think the word c