Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Jeopardy for the president. Were learning more about the trumpmueller relationship. The day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an Oval Office Meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. The president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over Golf Club Fees could now be investigating him, the person said. Now, we dont know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. But we do know that Christopher Wrey wasnt named until a month after. Read on the man, he knew he would also be
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. Will decide if the president is likely to sit with Robert Mueller for an interview while at bedminster. But it might not be Donald Trumps decision to make, admitting that trump might be, quote, forced to testify on matters that occurred before he took office and that might mean real legal jeopardy for the president. That admission comes as we are learning new details about the trump mayor relationship. Bloomberg reports that the day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the Deputy Director of the fbi trump was in an Office Meeting when it was announced that mueller was announced to be the lead investigator of the campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. Trump blasted session for not knowing the announcement was coming and
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. The president cant survive twitter. Thats right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. Every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so theyre absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his own statements, as Rudy G
Midterms because trump believes its return to the headlines will help republicans win votes. There it is. Today donald trump reupping his attacks on nfl players over the kneeling. This is on a friday heading into the anniversary of course of that Charlottesville White power rally. Were not going to read the tweet tonight from the president attacking the players in last nights game because it is not particularly newsworthy and were not going to show you all the headlines it sparked. You can imagine there were many of them. The actual developments we are going to show you because that is what trump is distracting from. They include mueller pressing for a wider interview with trump than hes willing to give which would launch a Supreme Court fight, an associate of roger stone in the Grand Jury Box today and getting another roger stone aid held in contempt today for refusing to testify at all in this probe. It includes the issuance of a new subpoena to an associate of
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Working for stone in 2010. In august 2017 she took over as stones scheduler, but she says she did not work for him during the 2016 president ial election. Kristin davis is a good friend of mine. She is a brilliant woman who has paid her debt to set. She was not working for me during 2015. She worked for me during a portion of 2016. She went back to school to learn i. T. Skills. She has helped me build some websites. She has no knowledge whatsoever of any russian collusion, collaboration with wikileaks, or anything else having to do with the 2016 election. Stone is not only under suspicion, but might be a target of the special counsels investigation. Already muellers team has interviewed two people close to trumps longtime confidant. A third was held in contempt for refusing to comply with a subpoena. Ari melber broke the news last
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