A lot of things. Thanks, appreciate the reporting. Im joined by caroline. Lets get to the conflict issue and what the president wrote over the weekend. Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to prtd tr President Trump. What he was talking about with this alleged Conflict Of Interest and white house wouldnt tell cnn either when they asked this question. You think you know what its about and has merit. There are three things we know that President Trump himself stated, theres this lingering Potential Dispute over fees at his golf course and then of course the other issue besides the fact that mueller had worked for wilmer hail, the law firm that represented jared and ivanka and experts in the doj cleared, they vetted him to do this representation ethically. But the issue is that interviewed for ahead of the fbi with President Trump days before his appointment as special counsel. I think as everything in this case, hes grasping for straws. They are
Is as well. And cnn politics reporter to koppen. Former business partner, manafort, rick gates maybe called this week. He is considered a star witness. In exchange for his guilty plea. What is to be expected from him . Yes, thats right, fred. I mean, in many ways, this is sort of what everyone has been waiting for the trial to build up to. He was the man who is sort of on the inside so to speak on all of these different pieces of the puzzle that have been being put together by this testimony from, you know, from accountants, from the various sort of external factors in manaforts world. But this is the man who was, you know, supposedly according to prosecutors side by side with manafort as much as this went down and may be the one to testify, you know, exactly what he was thinking and doing and intending, which is so important when youre building this criminal case. You know, he also is sort of the connection to trump world. That we havent seen as much. And thats what has to be what peo
The latest news from around the world. This is a concern for so many people. Its a concern because a week ago when they saw the 6. 4 fore shock, we thought that was a major earthquake. That was just, as will put it, a precursor to the major earthquake. But buildings that were compromised or unstabilized or destabilized from that particular shot, are worried about their homes and the potential for collapse. Thats why this picture, of what looks to be a family, or people gathered in the streets, who are trying to sleep, are staying away from their shelters or their homes. Theyre worried that there could be more collapse. We are seeing aftershocks to the tune of dozens of them. Want to point out this particular feature. The earthquake, a primary focus across the island. Lots of people go there to trek. Indeed, in the fore shock that happened a week ago, there were trekkers. It took them days to bring them down. Little, by, l lby little. It is an active volcano. We see that the seismic act
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Justice that the president s lawyers have said publically and said it once again today that the president will not answer any questions about obstruction of justice and other issues that the special prosecutor Robert Mueller would like to question the president about. Regular viewers of this hour know i for one believe President Trump was never going to submit to any questions by my prosecutor under any circumstances, even back when the president said the chance of him doing that was 100 . So he said those things under oath. Would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of this . 100 . I would be glad to tell him exactly what i just told you, jim. 100 . That was a year ago. And now the chances of the president submitting to an interview with Robert Mueller is almost officially publically zero percent. Although the president s lawyers continue to play the public game
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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. On the other hand, you know, while that seems like a petty thing and an inargable thing, that might really get under the skin of the president when it comes to somebody who has become his most important ally on capitol hill. One of the things they did on that Impeachment Discussion is they lied to their contributors with this notion that it is Senate Procedure to immediately take up a bill of impeachment from the House Of Representatives and the senate can do no other business. The House Of Representatives sent over the impeachment of a federal judge in 1988 in august. The senate didnt take up the trial until 14 months later. And even then they did it parttime, a couple of hours a day here and there. It doesnt in any way clog up the senate on the confirmation of brett kavanaugh. So my reading of that was then just lying to their enthuiasts
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