Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Comes from giuliani, who attempted to downplay the criminal aspect of collusion with the russians. Rather than deny that collusion took place, he now today argued that collusion isnt illegal. Lets watch. Ive been sitting here looking in the federal code trying to find collusion as a crime. Its not. Collusion is not a crime. I dont even know if thats a crime, colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime. The hacking is the crime. The hacking that certainly is the original the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats he didnt pay them for hacking. Its so much fun. An apparent shift in strategy. Giuliani now appears to be saying that collusion is not so bad after all. You saw him there chuckling about it. And also 150e78d to undermined the credibility, however, of President Trumps frequent and categorical denials that there was no collusion. Which has been a familiar refrain from
Meeting. That trumps own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. The meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. If you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. In october came the multiple denials. October 30, the Special Counsel announcing the indictments against Paul Manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, Campaign Manager rick gates. Mueller also announced guilty pleas of George Papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who . Russian nationals. Who he thought were tied to the russian government. Who offered him what . Yes. Information about the possible release of Hillary Clintons emails. So following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president s own lawyers, picking up the argument like Go Pro Camera, collusion is
it went away for a few months. The president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. You see it i
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Agreement that collusion, if you look in the law books, isnt a crime, but conspiracy is a crime. If you speak to legal analysts, and pete probably knows a whole lot more about this, they would say its a part of the broader question that investigators are looking into, andrea. And pete, at the courthouse, this is so important, because its not related directly to the russia probe, but its so important for mueller to have a really strong case going in. Reporter Jury Selection is under way now, andrea. And it could end today. We could get Opening Statements tomorrow, if Jury Selection slops over into tomorrow. Its expected to last three weeks. It has nothing to do with the time that manafort worked on the campaign or was campaign chairman. It has to do with his work for another president , viktor yanukovych, former president of
september, andrea. And just a fashion question, this is a man known for his very, very expensive customtailored
A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. A look at the latest news and headlines of the day features discussions of politics and culture, analysis of Political Correctness in Campus Craziness and. Example, Zephyr Teachout promit throwing i. C. E. Agents in prison. I i. C. E. Has to be abolished. I say that is somebody who is running for one of the top Law Enforcement jobs in the country. And as attorney general, i will continue to speak out against i. C. E. I will prosecute i. C. E. For their criminal acts. Tucker in other words, those who enforce the law are the real criminals, just like illegal aliens are the realri americans, and the citizens who work hard get married and raise their own kids, are the ones who should be ashamed of themselves. War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Horrible saw at all 70 years ago. Suddenly we are looking at. Dennis pra
I dont think so. I dont think so. I sit here and say i dont think so. I dont know. Im being serious. If someone tried to recruit lebron to run for president , they said listen, theyve got no one. If you dont run, trumps going win, would you run . Well, in that case, i may. If they have no one, there i believe are some people out there. I hope. But lets see first. Lets see first. We also talked about living while black and how even money and fame Dont Insulate you from racism. Much more on that interview in just a moment. But lets start with the president s week, shall we . I want to bring in cnn Global Affairs analyst max boot and molly ball. Good evening. Good evening. Max, President Trump was on the attack this week, lashing out at everyone, saying that sessions should shut down the mueller investigation, contradicting his National Security team on russia, trying to distance himself from Paul Manafort. What does this tell you about his frame of mind . Well, first, don, let me just sa