mccains in service to their country. and that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. tonight on all in . if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. robert mueller finally speaks. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. and tells congress effectively, it s their job to deal with the criminal president. the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. tonight, what we learned from today s statement from the special counsel. this is stronger than the language in his report. what democrats plan to do about it. we want to do what is right and what gets results. how robert mueller s statement underscores bill
trump called him a whack job, and then some. he blamed him for the steel doss your, complaining he was never thanks for approving mccain s s funeral. he said democrats are antijewish, this may be the kind of week we are so, on a night like this, wooey are pleased with have john mechum with us.
in uniform at the funeral. so donald trump is the commander and chief and he is going after the father of somebody that is right now wearing the uniform and risking his life serving this country. something that neither donald trump nor any of his children have been willing to do. the mccains have been doing for generation after generation after generation. anna navarro, thanks so much for joining us today. we know you are heading over to the view today. we send our best. thank you. president trump predicted the collapse of isis in syria by last night. we re going to get a reality check, a live report from syria next. looking to lose weight this year? try fda-approved alli®.
context. they ran against each other, of course, in the primaries, they didn t support him when he ran in the general election. well, a lot of legal experts and frankly, political experts close to the whole thing say, the only thing that might override trump s distaste for, you know, the people that he ran against, like the mccains and the bushes of the world that didn t support him would be to send a message, a wider message in the mueller probe. it s very clear that this is a message he is sending that you can commit crimes against national security and you will be pardoned. a pardon for someone like scooter libby, to prepare them for the pardoning of everybody in donald trump s seemingly corrupt criminal enterprise. that there is a colleague who knows something about the bush world, as well. now, i want to be clear, because we re talking about this in the context of what the law is, not what you might like it to be. presidents have this power to issue pardons. and they can do
pr that pretty picture is where we start today. attorney general mike vance and former campaign adviser to bushes, mccains, all kinds of people. and professor opinion proer of the glaud squad and jonathan lemire, all msnbc contributors. ladies and gentlemen, this was an skoesextraordinary thing we witnessed over the weekend. instead of taking them apart by one by, let s talk about first the totality of it and nobody understands the process of mental breakdown other than mike murphy. mike, when you re looking at what the president saw coming out of his fingertips over the weekend, what did you think? i thought oh, here we are crazy times demand a crazy president. if this isn t nuts, i m not a clinical expert, but if you were to go back in time and one day switch with this kind of presidential behavior in normal history, people would instantly