strong. now, this could be interpreted in various ways. one is the president is sending a message by saying stay strong, don t buckle, don t say anything that might harm me, or these are two loyal friends who went through a lot during the campaign. flynn stuck with him and he s going to buck up a friend who s on this hard times. is it your buddy saying hang in there or tony soprano. there s a bit of corey lewandowski where there was some similar behavior. there were a lot of red flags about that guy. he was a campaign manager. he was arrested or charges filed against him for man handling a reporter, he was ultimately fired. even after fired, the president still stayed in touch with him
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politician in american history. and later in an east room press conference with the president of colombia, the president reiterated that same sentiment when asked about the special counsel. well, i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself and the russians, zero. note there on the question of the collusion, the president made a distinction between himself and his campaign. i can only speak for myself. and that was just the first of several denials from the president. he was asked about the reported comey memo. did you at any time urge former fbi director james comey in any way, shape or form to close or to back down the investigation into michael flynn? and also as you no. no. next question. he also denied he had done anything worthy of criminal charges or impeachment and defended his decision to fire fbi director james comey.
the obstruction case against the president grows. it s now considered a criminal investigation. then, new reporting from michael isikoff. why is president trump ignoring his lawyers and contacting michael flynn? new questions about whether the vice president knew about flynn, the foreign agent. the first i heard of it. and as the collusion denials pile up there s no collusion. russia is fine. why collusion with russia isn t even the question anymore. even my enemies have said there is no collusion. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. it took just 12 hours from the measured statement released by the white house for president trump to unleash his true feelings about the justice department s decision to appoint a special counsel to oversee the russia investigation. in an early morning tweet writing this is the sing it greatest witch hunt of a
of course raises the looming question of obstruction of justice, something senator richard blumenthal addressed after the rosenstein briefing. there is mounting evidence of obstruction of justice. no conclusion yet that there was, but that evidence needs to be pursued and there are a variety of pieces of evidence. bob mueller is doing a criminal investigation. the special prosecutor is doing an investigation of criminal allegations that are extremely serious, including possible obstruction of justice. as for possible obstruction, the investigation might want to take a look at a message the president reportedly sent to flynn, now a key figure, possible witness, as the investigation was under way. a message to, quote, stay strong. i just spoke with bernie sanders and asked if he could confirm senator mccaskill s assertion that rod rosenstein knew comey would be fired before he wrote his memo. i don t want to get into classified briefings, but
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