Today. Today you can sense the chant coming from the trump people. Listen closely and you can pick up a slightly different rhythm right now of dont lock me up, dont lock me up yesterday it was reported first by the Wall Street Journal that trumps former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, the guy saw there going after hillary, his lauer is looking to get flynn immunity in order to testify about what he knows. According to his lawyer trumps former National Security adviser certainly has a story to tell. This morning President Trump tweeted that mike flynn should ask for immunity in is that this is a witch hunt an excuse for a big election lost by the democrats and the media of historic proportion. At the meeting today Sean Spicer Conexplained the president was trying to convey his desire to see flynn testify. If you actually stop for a second and realize what the president is doing he is saying do whatever to do to go up and make it clear what happened,
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Time youre not aware of him actually taking any calls . No. Hes not taken any calls at this time since june 1st. Secretary shulkin, thank you for being with me tonight. Thank you. Obviously not taking the place of twitter yet. Dont forget, you can watch outfront any time anywhere on cnn go. Anderson is next. Thanks for joining us tonight. The last man in the room before the president spoke alone with fbi director james comey testified under oath, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is seen and heard a lot as one of Donald Trumps closest complain advisers and is accused of being untruthful and went before the Senate Intelligence committee in part he said to set the record straight about a number of things, including in his words, secret innuendo being leaked about himself, the president and his whole affair. He had plenty to say about that. He had less to say to the considerable irritation of some
committee members. Well talk about this over the next two hours and hear from a senator who was
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. A lot to get into. Stay tuned, its time for our breaking news opening monologue. We are going to start, we are going to go very slow tonight because a lot of new information. Robert mueller and his team of partisan investigators, they want to face off with the president of the United States number but today President Trumps attorneys flatly rejected, rightly so, muellers interview terms. They have countered with a proposal of their own. In a statement, the attorney for President Trump, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani wrote we are restating what we have been saying for months, it is time for the office of the Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further delay. The former mayor is not predicting that the investigation could be over by september 1st. He will be right here on the show with more details in just a few moments. Without a doubt, President Trump should be aware. Mueller, his merry band of antitrump deep
Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Cut off all ties with Christopher Steele because he was leaking and lying about potentially classified information to the media again to peddle his lies to influence the outcome of our election. This all comes on the heels of last nights shocking report that showed that Christopher Steele was working closely with bruce ohr before and after the 2016 election, again to spread the lies from his dirty dossier. He had no faith in those lies. Throughout the highest levels of what is supposed to be our fair and unbiased justice system. Equal justice under the law, equal applications of the law. At the time, the fourth highest Ranking Member of obamas department of justice, he has since been demoted because of his unethical ties to steal and fusion gps. Sara carter, john solomon will be joining us in a moment with more details. These are shocking new developments. It is far worse than we ever thought. But first we are also currently
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That does it for our show. Rachel h rachel. Dont go anywhere. Hardball with Chris Matthews is up next. Power trip lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews in washington. Breaking news from the Associated Press. Just broke the news reported that Omarosa Manigault newman has more than tapes. Just broke. We begin the other big story news tonight. Obsessed with power. President trump appears ready and willing to use his office to punish enemies like omarosa. Scare others including his own people into submission. Having revoked Security Clearances, trump is weaponizing the presidency. Axios reports President Trump has become enamored with power. Consultation with anyone else. When it comes to yanking Security Clearances it is a power that is uniquely and solely hiss. Matches his idea of how the presidency ought to be. Pure power and instant
gratification. Investigating his enemies. Yesterday vanity fair reported that trump told advisors that he wants Attorney General Sessions tha