on your opponent and them saying i love it. and then best later in the summer. this is unheard of in american politics. and it ought to be a concern of everyone, democrat, republican, independent alike. guess who gets to decide who s going to win american presidential elections? american citizens. we don t allow foreign adversaries to meddle or interfere in our elections and we all ought to be standing up against this. hope hicks, she traveled aboard air force one with the president this weekend as he was heading to another political rally and she spoke with robert mueller s team earlier this year. hicks is presumably a witness in the obstruction probe. does her presence on the campaign trail, congressman, with the target, potential target of that probe raise red flags? i think so. i mean, i think it s really inappropriate. look. she s clearly a witness to a very important event.
is there a way or how do we know whether that s actually true? is there any way for us to verify that that meeting was of no substance since it s only the word of donald trump jr. who is down played it? i mean from our perspective here, it s very hard to verify that. but he can be sure that is something that robert mueller is still looking into. and even if he is found that nothing of substance came out of it, that isn t really a whole hearted defense. a, there is always the obstruction probe. the very statement that was made on air force one last year when this story came out could be used in an obstruction probe about the president for lying about that. obviously it s a lie as we see today where he is talking about there was dirt they were trying to offer and that is the reason why they met with them in the first place. also just wanted to go back to a point that barbara made. it is the attempt to accept or solicit this. just the very e-mails exchanged with donald trump jr. in sett
the obstruction probe. so while others debate no one is paying attention, we know mueller is. with me now, jess mcintosh, a former aide to hillary clinton. courts have held the president s tweets are important in the immigration ban. another judge has recently ruled the president can t ban people from his twitter account because it s a matter of public record. at some point, whether you came into this election thinking the tweets were official or important, we must now that by now they are. they are, this president doesn t engage with us in a proper press conference the way all past presidents have. we have to communicate with him via twitter. he gets around a thousand retweets or likes. it drives the news traffic of the day. a lot of americans are concerned, especially when we
donald trump very angry, and you interviewed him about this. he said he never would have picked sessions as attorney general if he was going to recuse himself. he asked his then chief of staff reince priebus to get a resignation from sessions. priebus refuses. that s the flash point under scrutiny by the special counsel investigation. and then here s the president attacking his sitting attorney general in the rose garden. i told you before i m very disappointed with the attorney general, but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. and then because there is a tweet for everything, here s the president s tweet. attorney general jeff sessions has taken a very weak position on hillary clinton crimes where are e-mails and dnc leaker. i think everyone is conditioned on the attacks of comey. we don t think of sessions as the one that could undo the president in the obstruction probe. the president was furious with sessions for recusing himself in the russia
would be like michael says something he would consider. people who know mueller say he doesn t consider any of the politics but you have to consider timing. between now and the 12th. i don t think we ll have that interview before the 12th. we think the obstruction probe could wrap up by the end of the summer or early fall. the timing should work out. i think we ll know all about north korea before we know whether the president is going to answer questions. if he keeps answering the way he was today, he s going to perjure himself. he can t keep saying there was no connection when he said before there was. that s what perjury is. when you say one thing and another thing that s contradictory, that s when the judge catches you. julia, shannon, and michael. president trump pardoned dinesh d souza. he s sending a message to flynn, cohen and manafort. he s staying strong and there s a pardon for you if you stay strong. that s the message from the president with his bouquet of