Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. The meeting was, so get information on Hillary Clinton. The original trump lie about this meeting was that the meeting was about russian adoptions. But the president s lawyers were forced to admit in a letter to the Special Prosecutor that President Trump dictated a false statement to the New York Times about that meeting knowing it was false, a statement saying the meeting was about russian adoptions. The legal implications of the president s tweet are gravely threatening to the president s son. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. But it is not done all the time in politics, and its totally, totally illegal. If it is a meeting with foreign citizens trying to help the Trump Campaign. Federal law makes it a crime for a Foreign National to, quote, directly or indirectly help an American Campaign with financial contributions or, q
tries would it would immediately be stopped by federal courts. right. maybe that s his way out, as daif david s saying, he s got to find a thing where he says i tried and somebody else stopped me. one thing we know about donald trump is he never lacks for people to blame. it could be the democrats, it could be the liberals on the court, even though those happen to be people appointed by republicans. it can be anyone he wants to blame. once we start hearing more stories about people missing paychecks and possibly be evi evicted from their homes, he ll blame landowners, hey, your landlord should have been more reasonable. there s never going to be a point in any of this crisis where donald trump will take responsibility for anything, but i think that the problem is this. at some point he can only beat on his own party so many times. the democrats don t care. they control the house, but at some point the republicans will revolt. they don t like the idea that they re going to be ta
line of the kremlin on a whole bunch of things, and so whether or not it results in an indictment, whether or not it s something we ultimately can see, touch, feel, and hear, this is something that u.s. intelligence officials have to understand. why is the president saying what he s saying? and david, u.s. intelligence officials have different methods than the special prosecutor about how to find this out. well, rachel maddow made a fabulous point in her presentation on this where she reminded everyone that in the very beginning of the trump administration that the trump administration was accepting crazy soviet propaganda, russian propagan propaganda, i should say, accusing poland, our nato ally, of meddling inside belarus. that was completely false. but, again, that somehow got into the president s head, and there are other examples, too, where he says things that no one except an rt viewer and the president of russia would believe. david, thank you for joining us tonight. th
to moderate and even conservative voters. she also makes a point of saying that she has three brothers, and then she pauses for effect, and says one of them is a democrat. when the audience figures out what she means, they all laugh. and she talked again and again about how republicans and democrats are united around fundamental values when it comes to education and health care. she s clearly working on that part of her pitch as a way of reassuring people she can get the voters the democrats feel they didn t get in 2016. adam, are you going to be following the warren campaign around the country? possibly not every step of the byway, but i think i ll be checking in with her frequently, and certainly when she s in new hampshire i ll be keeping tabs on her, and my hunch is i ll be seeing her in other spots as well. it sounds like this campaign, it s not official yet, but it sounds like a done deal when you watch her. it sure does. adam riley who s been watching the elizabeth warren
they re going to have some explaining to do. all reporting is indicating the trump white house had no plan, no strategic plan for a government shutdown and donald trump certainly didn t have one. and tim o brien, you are the least surprised person in the world to hear that. shocking. because you, many reasons, you know donald trump better than any of us, you ve been sued by him for your book about him. you crushed him in that lawsuit about your book, and your piece today is headlined trump was never a great deal maker and the shutdown proves it. that is one of the great ironies of the guy who had his phony best selling book entitled the art of the deal. every business person i know in new york says that no one knows less about the deal than donald trump. yeah, lawrence, are we surprised at this point that the white house had no plan, had no plan for how to deal with this? there s not a crisis on the southern border. there s a crisis in the trump presidency, and the crisis is