What mueller taught trump this year and why hes not done for 2018. Youll notice two of our favorite lawyers there and our favorite journalist that has a law degree. My first question, what did bob mueller teach trump about the republic this year . I want to begin with a quick tour of the key moments that turned the russia probe from a few suspicious aides under siege from day one. Michael flynn is out. Flynn, they say, had lied to the president and Vice President. General flynns resignation is not the end of the story. It is merely the beginning. Moments ago, sessions held a press conference annoying that hes recusing himself from any investigation involving the trump campaign. President trump has fired james comey as director of the fbi. I just heard from a former fbi official describe this as shocking as insane and questioned whether it could amount to obstruction. Did President Trump pressure comey to drop the investigation into Michael Flynn . I hope that you can let this go. Those
4 20. Thank you, chuck todd. Tonight we begin with a twist in the russia probe. Democrats have just filed a new lawsuit and they allege that the russians conspired with the Trump Campaign for the hacking that so defined the 2016 election. This is brandnew. Its a civil suit. It names in Intelligence Services that are run, of course, by putin. It also explicitly names Wikileaks Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the Trump Campaign itself, as well as explicitly naming senior figures in it, including suing those two members of the president s family you see right there, Jared Kushner and donald trump jr. The Trump Campaign now is punching back. They say this is a sham lawsuit about bogus collusion. All of this coming, of course, as james comey has exposed many things about donald trump in those new memos, including he was allegedly upset he didnt know about a phone call from putin right after the inauguration. Trump then confronting Michael Flynn about it and flynn said the return call w
Stunt . Plus, the citizen cycle. You have a leaker backing a leaker. Well try to sort out all the spin on the james comey memos. And later, joint session. Ill be introducing ledges to decriminalize marijuana. The bipartisan push to solve a chronic problem. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening. Welcome to mtp daily im chuck todd here in new york. The Democrat National committee is making headlines today with what appears to be a political stunt straight out of President Trumps playbook. They are filing a lawsuit. The lawsuit targets the tramp campaign, the russian government, and wikileaks, alleging they conspiracied to disrupt the 2016 election in Donald Trumps favor. The lawsuit alleges a conspiracy that quote stoconstituted unforeseen treachery. My question tonight, is this lawsuit a stunt or is it something we need to take legally very seriously . Folks, there are a lot of reasons to question this motivation and the merits of this lawsuit. And there is a lot of m
Analyst. And abby phillip, white house correspondent. Rachel, give us color of what transpired behind closed doors, where the democrats began in a heated debate about impeachment. Yesterday was sort of a Tipping Point for a lot of House Judiciary Committee members, when they got news the white house was not going to allow don mcgahn to appear for testimony he was scheduled to give this morning at 10 00 a. M. Another example of stonewalling from the white house. They were fed up. In their traditional monday night leadership meeting, four House Judiciary Committee members, who are also part of pelosis Leadership Team, confronted her about this and said, look, its time to begin an impeachment inquiry. Itd help us get the documents, the witnesses, the testimony that the white house has been stonewalling. Pelosi and leadership, they basically pushed back. Pelosi said that if we do this, it could undercut other investigations were seeing in the house. There was some concern that voters dont