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This coming as President Trump does appear to be going ut alone. Essentially acting as his own lead attorney. This was according to sources who say the president feels misled and no longer wants anyone else in charge. It is a decision with massive implications, given the fact President Trumps personal lawyer and ficker of a dozen years is under investigation and his documents have been seized by federal prosecutors. That means the president , who does not have a law degree, is trying essentially take over his own defense and today he went on offense on twitter about the russia investigation, tweeting slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the phony russia veinvestigation. Where by the way, there was no collusion except by the dems. Of course, theres a huge problem with the tweet like that. And that is this. The president himself said last year on National Television that comey was fired because of russia. Regardless of recommendation,
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Interview. We have a lot of questions for her. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced and unafraid. The story hosted by Martha Maccallum starts right now. Did you see that video . Martha i love that video. You might see it again and this hour i love it so much. Thank you, good to see you tonight. Breaking tonight, an exclusive interview with the man urging the president to strip topsecret Security Clearances from formal officials who are now some of his largest, loudest critics on tv. I use the terms that this is nothing sort of treasonous. I really question his fitness to be in this office. I know we are not nazi germany but theres a commonality. They have assumed Vladimir Putin interest. Lies, person not fit to be president of the United States. Martha six officials who wants held highranking postat the fbi, the cia, the nsa. They politicize and in some cases monetize their Public Service and Security Clearances, making baseles
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Things that are not truthful for donald trump. We dont have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from Michael Cohen. The only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he Wasnt Recording Him when he actually was. So in the Credibility Fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand . Well, in the Credibility Fight you have to ask a few questions. One is who has the greater motive to lie here . One of the things weve learned, say, from Robert Mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. So if Michael Cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from Robert Mueller and he peddles an untrue story, hes going to get himself into a heap of trouble. On the other hand, President Trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. In fact, he was very much hands on. If cohens account proves true, Donald Trumps Daily Collusion Denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isnt a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p. R. Battle front. The legal problems for the president may be twofold. One, the Trump Tower Meeting is under scrutiny in the Obstruction Of Justice track of the Mueller Probe, and on the Collusion Track Bob Mueller has charged russian officials for Election Meddling and he may be building a conspiracy case and working to Connect The Dots to any unwitting or witting accomplices inside the trump orbit. Cohens bombshell contradicts many months of denials from donald trump about his knowledge of the Trump Tower Meeting, like this