Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. This will play out. Which, as of tonight, could serve as the headline for the status of everything. Still under investigation by the special prosecutor. Unclear how this will play out. Leading off our discussion now, joyce nance, former special prosecutor. And former counsel to the mayor of New York City and eugene robinson, Opinion Writer for the washington post. Hes an msnbc political analyst. And you are a former federal prosecutor also. What do you make of the giuliani conditions for the interview . Well, in fairness i was in the Civil Division of the u. S. Attorneys office. I will say that unfortunately giuliani has become someone whose career is not going to be looked at quite the same light as it was before this because he really had a storied career. And what were seeing is just
this complete disintegration of what was a credible lawyer into someone who has lost all credibility. While
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. Rudy giuliani told politico today that the trump team wants to rule outofbounds about half of what Robert Mueller wants to discuss the president. Quote, we dont want questioning on obstruction. They would have to concede that. Robert mueller would not be allowed to ask President Trump what he said to james comey about the fbi investigation of michael flynn. James comey says that the president told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. Hes a good guy. I hope you can let this go. The only area that the trump team would consider allowing is how donald trump and his campaign interacted with russians during the president ial campaign. A week after reports that trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen is willing to testify that donald trump knew about the meeting in tru
beyond re-taking the house and goes down to the state legislators and is a transformative election. i don t think we re there yet. i think democrats have this habit of kind of going on miller time, you know, going, okay, we got this in the bag. you know. all the signs, mike murphy is telling us on tv winter is coming. we don t have to dig deep in our pockets. we don t have to work that hard because this thing is done. and i think that would really be to misunderstand the history of elections and misunderstand recent elections where democrats have not turned out in midterms. that s the recent history. they don t show up. so unless that trend is changed, it s not at all clear that the democrats will do as well as expected in november. let s take a look at the president attacking the news media tonight in pennsylvania. it is a very familiar bit that we have seen at all of these rallies. let s take a peak at tonight s
texas has been a strongly republican state for a long time. cruz is, you know, pretty effective at the cut and thrust of politics and he has a lot at his disposal, including a lot of money to try to take him down. but this is the kind of thing that indicates there could be a true blue tsunami that goes beyond re-taking the house and goes down to the state legislators and is a transformative election. i don t think we re there yet. i think democrats have this habit of kind of going on miller time, you know, going, okay, we got this in the bag. you know. all the signs, mike murphy is telling us on tv winter is coming. we don t have to dig deep in our pockets. we don t have to work that hard because this thing is done. and i think that would really be to misunderstand the history of elections and misunderstand recent elections where democrats have not turned out in midterms.