And that does it for me. You have a great sunday. Up next, the gura train keeps on moving with david gura. Richard, thank you very much. Im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. Another tweet storm. President trump taking to twitter it attack Robert Muellers investigation, but one of his tweets may have created a legal nightmare for him and for his oldest son donald trump jr. Thats not the only cause for panic. The president in an allout effort to save a congressional seat, republicans have held on to for more than 30 years. To continue our incredible success we must elect more republicans and we must elect troy balderson. We have to elect troy. And high hope from a White House Communications director. Hope hicks spotted on Board Air Force one this weekend. Could she be plotting a return to Donald Trumps administration . But lets begin with that meeting at trump tower. That meeting donald trump jr. Agreed to hoping he would get dirt on Hillary Clinton. That meeting the trumps a
that this ran afoul here of federal law. taking those three things into consideration, what s the thing the president should be most worried about? well, i think he should be worried about all three. let s start with the nature of the tweet in the first instance. in a courtroom, tweets equal evidence. there is a federal rule of evidence called statement of a party opponent. what does that tell us? it tells us that anything a defendant says whether it is in oral form, written form, tweeted form, if he said it, it can be introduced as evidence against him. now, i know there are some who say, well, you know, you can t indict a sitting president, so those tweets will never see the inside of a courtroom as evidence. as a career federal prosecutor, i actually think there is a pathway to indicting a sitting president. let s set that aside for the moment. even if he were to be indicted and his trial were to be delayed until after he left the office, we would still be having the same debate a