Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. General under president clinton and former federal prosecutor. Julia, i will have you play a few roles for me tonight because you do also cover the Justice Department. Jeff sessions in the room with the president when he is told that Robert Mueller is going to be Special Counsel, according to bloomberg news. Jeff sessions offered his Rec Resignation in that moment. I think the idea that Robert Mueller had been appointed was pretty obvious right there. He saw the writing on the wall, that it was because he had recused himself from this investigation that this had been allowed to happen, that Rod Rosenstein was allowed to appoint this Special Counsel. The way we all see it and the logical way to see it is the appointment of Robert Mueller was because of the firing of jim comey. It was actually the president s decision to fire jim comey, not Jeff Sessions decision. But knowing donald trump and i
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Jeopardy for the president. Were learning more about the trumpmueller relationship. The day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an Oval Office Meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. The president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over Golf Club Fees could now be investigating him, the person said. Now, we dont know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. But we do know that Christopher Wrey wasnt named until a month after. Read on the man, he knew he would also be
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. Will decide if the president is likely to sit with Robert Mueller for an interview while at bedminster. But it might not be Donald Trumps decision to make, admitting that trump might be, quote, forced to testify on matters that occurred before he took office and that might mean real legal jeopardy for the president. That admission comes as we are learning new details about the trump mayor relationship. Bloomberg reports that the day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the Deputy Director of the fbi trump was in an Office Meeting when it was announced that mueller was announced to be the lead investigator of the campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. Trump blasted session for not knowing the announcement was coming and
world. 198 votes were bribed, biden won there by 10,457. needless to say if all 198 were investigated or fraudulent and were supposed to be for trump and not biden, any of this investigation takes, obviously doesn t come close to changing the result. georgia flagged a suspicious 64. margin was 11,779. michigan, 56 votes flagged as suspicious. in nevada, 98 votes were flagged as suspicious. suspiciously cast. pennsylvania, these appearances. 26 votes. 26 votes in pennsylvania flagged
barnicle method, which is it s free form. i write a word a day. you ll get it done. we re saving a space for you, joe. all right, thank you so much, fred, and again, thank you so much for being here remembering your colleague. thanks for having me. still ahead, the inspector general of the state department is set to give an urgent briefing on capitol hill today, and that urgent briefing concerns ukraine. meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo is in italy right now, and is expected to take questions at any moment. of course judging by his last few performances in front of the press, we wonder whether we have to apply the lewandowski standard to him because he, like corey, obviously doesn t feel any responsibility toll tell t truth to americans. we ll be right back. mericans we ll be right back. ah!