These are potential criminal felonies. That is why the Mueller Investigation needs to proceed. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. Trying to do a whitewash of what happened. And i think history will not judge them kindly. Reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. We are told it lasted 30 minutes. So very concerned about what is going to happen. You started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in
fact true, the president knew about the meeting. And there are people on the right and defender
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. There is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the Phone Records. Never subpoenaed the Phone Records placed to an unknown meeting. Is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. I am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. It was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. Trying to do a whitewash of what happened. And i think history will not judge them kindly. Reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. How democrats last week put up a bill to provide election, security funding. The republicans rejected that. And it is clear that the House Republicans have completely gone derelict in their attitude to protect america. And hopefully voters will change. Top officials on election security. We are told it lasted 30 m
sense, there is not going to be a criminal trial of the president yet. maybe after he leaves office. again, that is the rule that mueller is following. in terms of impeachment and in terms of evidence of criminality, that is a smoking gun. and it goes, the other part of that to me, again, you have got on record, you have this meeting, we know the meeting happened. it is possible the president knew and possible michael cohen knew. no one says word one as they watch the russians interfere over and over in the election. having been told that in e-mail, the russian government wants your dad to win. and natasha talked about this one event. pull back and remember, they were told, george papadopoulos
that might also involve others. that is correct. so conspiracy means that you didn t necessarily complete the act. you helped complete the act. so if they helped in any way of what the russians were doing. they would be guilty of conspiracy. thank you. i am joined by legal analyst paul butler, natasha ber trand. paul butler, natasha bertrand. if true, there is circumstantial reason to be this is possible, it is likely he told his dad about this meeting. if it is true, what is the significance of it? it is huge.
president yet. maybe after he leaves office. again, that is the rule that mueller is following. in terms of impeachment and in terms of evidence of criminality, that is a smoking gun. and it goes, the other part of that to me, again, you have got on record, you have this meeting, we know the meeting happened. it is possible the president knew and possible michael cohen knew. no one says word one as they watch the russians interfere over and over in the election. having been told that in e-mail, the russian government wants your dad to win. and natasha talked about this one event. pull back and remember, they were told, george papadopoulos was told in april, that the russians had obtained hillary