Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Mueller outlining their defenses of the president on Obstruction Of Justice. The key element of their defense was that President Trump did not know that his National Security adviser Michael Flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. James comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let it go. The Trump Defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute Obstruction Of Justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating Michael Flynn. But murray waass reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by White House Counsel Don Mcgahn showing e
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. And we already know that Robert Mueller has found links and coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of donald trump. The meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign shows there are links between the russian government and the campaign. We already know that when the russian government offered to coordinate with donald trump jr. To provide dirt on Hillary Clinton donald trump jr. Said i love it. Now, we have no idea what other links and coordination Robert Mueller has found between the russian government and the Trump Campaign. And we dont know whether any of those links and coordination constitute criminal conduct by anyone named trump. Weve watched donald trump on the Campaign Stage publicly try to link with the russian government and coord
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"Former president Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, removed more than a thousand pages of classified documents from the White House late at night on the final evening of Trump’s presidency," Murray Waas reports."A former top aide to Meadows has told investigators that they witness