unparishtive of what i did for his son. i should have left him in jail. finally, on sunday, trump went after marshawn lynch of the raiders for sitting during the national anthem there he is. trump tweeted great disrespect. the next time the nfl should suspend him for the remainder of season. attendance and ratings way down. for more i m joined by susan page is with a bureau chief for usa today. libby case is at the washington poechlts and jason johnson is politics editor for the root and msnbc political contributor. in order, what do we make of this bash of commentary from the president? pick any one you would like. susan? okay, i ll take the first one. okay. for ten points. the 2016 election will never end. 50 years from now we ll still be debating who won. there is a legitimate result there. . the electorate college voted and got to 270. what does hillary clinton mean by raising the legitimacy of the
instinctual going on? you look at the libby case, and you think, this is a trained lawyer. it s his first time as a criminal subject of an investigation. you would think that he would get his steps exactly right, know exactly what he could say and what he couldn t say, and not risk the most dangerous thing in any one of those investigations, which is the perjury count. absolutely. i mean, it s really incredible. and many people have asked me, like, who is the best liar in your book? i think the real question is, who is the worst? and scooter libby may very well be the worst. i think everyone knows, if you re going to lie, try to stick close to the facts and deviate when you have to. he created a whole parallel universe. he is contradicted by no less than nine other officials in the bush administration. even his own assistant. the story did not hold up at all. he repeated the story over and over again, the grand jury, to fbi agents, even when he was warned his story had already been
stories told by my guest in his new book. joining me now, james stewart, the author of tangled webs, how false statements are undermining america, from martha stewart to bernie madoff. good to have you. nice to be here. how did scooter libby get caught up in that investigation and why was he the only one caught lying? surely nehe was not the only on who at some point lied? he wasn t. and one of the extraordinary things was, if he hadn t lied, he never would have been charged. because he was not a source of the notorious column by bob novak who outed valerie plame as a cia agent. the actual sources were karl rove in the white house and richard armitage in the state department. but scooter libby had outed her to other reporters. he was doing his best to get the story out. he told first, bob woodward, and then judy miller at the new york times. they didn t write the story, but he then lied, saying he had never leaked her idea. was there something instinct chul going on? you lo
how false statements are undermining america, from martha stewart to bernie madoff. good to have you. nice to be here. how did scooter libby get caught up in that investigation and why was he the only one caught lying? surely he was not the only one who at some point lied? he wasn t. and one of the extraordinary things was, if he hadn t lied, he never would have been charged. because he was not a source of the notorious column by bob novak who outed valerie plame as a cia agent. the actual sources were karl rove in the white house and richard armitage in the state department. but scooter libby had outed her to other reporters. he was doing his best to get the story out. he told first, bob woodward, and then judy miller at the new york times. they didn t write the story, but he then lied, saying he had never leaked her idea. was there something instinct chul going on? you look at the libby case, and you think, this is a trained lawyer. it s his first time as a