Whether there are grounds for a Criminal Investigation or an ethics investigation against the president of is the United States of america. For example, Rachel Crooks is one of the 16 women that we know of who have come forward. She said that President Trump, before he was president , quote, kissed me directly on the mouth. It was so inappropriate that he thought i was so insignificant he could do that. Jo hart, said he absolutely groped me, and he just lipid his hand there touching my private parts, end quote. These are just two examples of unwelcome sexual advances. I think were he on the subway or in a restaurant would not either or both of these incident be enough to get him arrested . In your experience as the number two most important Law Enforcement officer in the United States, but before you answer that, how about these cases . Kristin anderson in an interview said, quote, the person on my right who unbeknownst to me at the time was donald trump, put their hand up my skirt. He
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. What mr. Mcgahn had said, according to a person close to the president. Yesterday in what was for reasons we will get to later Rudy Giulianis most spectacularly ridiculous tv interview ever, giuliani actually admitted that the Trump Lawyers do not know everything don mcgahn told the Special Prosecutor. We have a good sense, obviously, of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out. How do you say that, good sense . Have you debriefed him . No, no. But mr. Dowd has a good sense of it. He talked to them at the time. The times reports that Rudy Giuliani refused to follow trumps orders on television yesterday. The article sent out of a scramble on saturday. The president sequestered at his private golf club and solicited opinions on the possible repercussions from the article. The president ordered
pete, you had your ears on the door of the doj now for any years. is there preswer h i think the picture we are getting here is that i am not sure what the right metaphor is. rosenste rosenstein s hand on the throttle or whatever the right metaphor is, that work will basically be done. we are told by people who are close. rosenstein has been the biggest public defender of the mueller investigation before congress and the public. so there is reassurance that he s there. i think there is a growing
evidence and it was an appropriate use of resources. joining me msnbc legal analyst. at this point, maybe people won t complain about how much the mueller investigation is costing since, i don t know how much did we pull in from manafort, 50 million bucks. i think that covers it. rosenste rosenstein s comments contradict the narrative we have heard from the president, rudy giuliani that social security a rigged, hoax, witch hunt. how do you think trump is interpreting this? i think it s interesting that on the heels of the meeting they had a week ago. trump and rosenstein. it s very unusual for a prosecutor overseeing an investigation to speak to the media about an ongoing investigation. what we have seen in this investigation is first bob mule
now. wait until after the election. attorney general and rosenstein at the same time. this has kind of come to a head a little bit because of the argument about the discussion about whether to wire tap him and whether to invoke the 25th amendment. that s a hard thing to let go. he s very upset about that as you can imagine. rod rosenstein feels like he s been put in a bad position. that s the says at the bottom of the deck, isn t it? any time he wants he can fire rosenste rosenstein. he was quoted about having wire tapping and bugging the president and/or discussing as getting him unfit under the constitution. those are certainly problems if i was president. the washington post reported on rosenstein just now that people inside and outside the department of justice clearly increasingly more likely that rosenstein would stay on the job until after november s election and then depart, there s a phrase, probably with the attorney general. the wall street journal also reported just m