Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Confused, one goal of mr. Giuliani was pretty evident. 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. Okay. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. That certainly is the origin of the the president didnt hack. Of course not. Thats the he didnt pay them for hacking. As you know, it has led the meeting with the russians. If you got the hacked information from the russians here at cnn and you played it would you be in jeopardy of going to jail . Of course not. Okay. The president didnt hack and he didnt pay for the hacking. So thats an interesting thing to say. That, though, you that see there, is an idea that trumps allies have trotted out before. It doesnt hold up to legal scrutiny at all, particularly when you consider that mueller has already charged more than a dozen russians with conspiring a
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day before President Trumps former Campaign Manager is going to stand trial in Federal Court for Money Laundering and bank fraud in relation to his work for a prorussian Political Party in ukraine and one day after the president went on possibly his most aggressive twitter rant yet about the mueller investigation, which he called the operation an illegal scam, trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was out today wildly, desperately spinning to try to accomplish two very specific things. One, move the goalposts to say that collusion is not a crime, and two, to get ahead of the emerging storyline of a Trump Campaign strategy meeting that maybe occurred two days before the Infamous Trump tower meeting that had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. In two interviews this morning, interviews that were often confusing, bewildering, and in which giuliani often seemed confused, one goal of mr. Giuliani was pretty evident. Chris Hayes discusses the days top ne
what we do now will determine how quickly we get through this. let me ask you about that short portion of the book that i just read moments ago about your sort of revelation about robert mueller. mueller having led the mueller investigation into what russia did and whether the trump campaign was deliberately colluding with russian government s actions on trump s behalf. and then you write with incredible clarity about how angered and disgusted and dismayed you were about how william barr handled the receipt of that report and his misleading rollout of it to the public. but you were shocked that robert mueller effectively wasn t going to make a good witness, that he was not the person who you had expected to be testifying there, that he had changed since you had last seen him in public. do you believe, looking back on it, that mueller shouldn t have led that inquiry, it should have
had last seen him in public. do you believe, looking back on it, that mueller shouldn t have led that inquiry, it should have been somebody else, or is your regret only that somebody else should have testified about the content of the report? my regret only is in forcing him to testify when i could understand the moment he did, why his staff had been so reluctant. he wasn t able to bring the report really fully to life. he just wasn t the same man that i knew from years earlier. and that s my regret, is forcing him to testify that way. i think he led a brilliant investigation. i think he is a man of just incredible integrity. the thing that strikes me, too, and you mentioned bill barr, is in very much the same way that donald trump imagined imagines everyone is like him, everyone lies like he does, everyone is corrupt like he is, i think that bob mueller, being
resilient country. but what we do now, will determine how quickly we can get through this. let me ask you about that short portion of the book that i just read moments ago, about your sort of revelation about robert mueller. mueller led the investigation into what russia did, and whether the trump campaign was directly colluding with russian government on trump s behalf. then you write with incredible clarity about how angered and disgusted and dismayed you were about william barr, handled the receipt of that report and his misleading rollout of it to the public, but you are shocked that robert mueller effectively wasn t going to make a good witness. that he was not the person who you had expected to be testifying, there that he hadn t changed since you had last seen him in public. do you believe looking back on it that mueller shouldn t have led that inquiry, that it