That all happening all at once. Maybe its a coincidence, maybe thats what happens when the charges start to get filed. They all interrelate. They must be at least some level read into whats going on in muellers shop, we would hope. This all looks like its designed to protect donald trump. Not get at the meat and potatoes of what russia did to us. I feel like so much of what were seeing is it to protect donald trump i dont know maybe im a little paranoid thinking that is disturbing. None of us are naive. But the part of it that i have been a little bit dismayed by is that its one thing for people who are partisans of the trump
administration or who are republicans and see it as their job to defend the president , to say, you know what, this collusion thing didnt happen. What russia did was terrible. We are against that. But Dont Try To Drag Donald Trump into this, dont try youre saying that he was involved in this to try to undercut his election. He won his election fair and square. And
Potentially it could be big. I mean, looking at Michael Cohen, what this means is the same tactic that we have seen happening in this investigation out of the Southern District of new york, is happening, that we see happen in the Mueller Investigation. They go after other witnesses, encourage them to cooperate, and in this case you have this Business Partner who is cooperating, being offered significant being offered a potential sentence that is much smaller than what he could be facing. He could be facing 25 years for each count, owing millions of dollars in back taxes. All of that is being reduced, which says to me that he has some information that prosecutors would be interested in regarding Michael Cohen. That subsequently puts more pressure on Michael Cohen to cooperate to reduce his potential legal exposure and talk about whatever he knows that could aid the Mueller Investigation. It also, since this is outside of the jurisdiction of the Mueller Investigation, it really could tak
Start wholesale Firing People in the white house and in his administration. She is predicting that right after the election there is about to be a purge. Sleep tight, everyone. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. You know, you do a factbased show. You are a presenter of fact, a finder of fact. And i rarely get to hear your opinion in your show. And so i listened. I was hanging on every word. And i heard you say to Hillary Clinton, early in your hour, that you believe that the kavanagh nomination is, quote, hurtling toward the sun. You want to expand on that . You are my little eagle eyed friend, lawrence odonnell. Yes, i did say that. That is my take on it. And i am a terrible predictor and nobody should bank on anything that i predict ever, in politics or in anything. But given the way Christine Blasey ford is approaching this, given the corroboration that has alr
I do, but i have chosen so far not to. This is a blunt assertion of unitary executive power that seldom if ever heard from an american president and in response to a rare rebuke from bill barr who told trump to stop tweeting and talking about cases before the department of justice. You know, i think the i cannot do my job here at the department with a constant backgrou background commentary that undercuts me that is why i think it is time to stop the tweeting about the department of justice criminal cases. Lets ignore the attorney general plea following his public effort to assert insert control over the Justice Department for political purposes. The president lobbied for reduced sentencing recommendation for his political adviser roger stone and when the Justice Department did just that, he attacked the prosecutors who quit the case. And then he tried to intimidate the federal judge who are will decide stones fate next week. And last but not least, he attacked the leading member of th
Including Intelligence Experts mieke eoyang and ned price. It was a hearing unlike any we have seen before. It was the dramatic story of a woman in the first week of her new big job, biggest job of her life who gets some information that she knows her boss is going to hate. And so she brings that information immediately to her bosss lawyer, who is also in the first week of his new job. As her bosss lawyer. And her boss is in his first week of his new job. As president of the United States. And the only person in this story who does the right thing is that woman in the first week of her new job which would turn out to be the last week of her new job. To state the obvious, you dont want your National Security adviser compromised with the russians. Red flags and warnings sent to the Trump Administration about former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. President obama warned President Trump not to hire mike flynn. Did you not vet him yourselves . Thats where it appears that the trump