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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Final day of the presentation of their case against paul manafort, the president s campaign chairman, simultaneously a woman named kristin davis, who is better known in tabloid circles as the manhattan madam will be testifying tomorrow before the grand jury in d. C. , convened by the special counsels office reportedly about her relationship with Trump Campaign associate roger stone. Expect that to be an incredible tabloid scrum, if nothing else. We wont necessarily know what that legally is going to amount to for quite some time, if ever. But those two things are going to happen. One in virginia and one in d. C. , both in Federal Court tomorrow. Enjoy your morning. That does it for us tonight. Now it is time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. You just made the day of every Hollywood Screen writer who is dreaming of some day getting the assignment for the miniseries of the robert
mueller investigation, that there will come a day when the manhattan madam has to walk on to the set
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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us in such a tough spot. if sessions won t unrekus and mueller won t clear the president, we re the only ones. which is really the danger. that s why i keep and thank you for saying that, by the way. we have to keep on this. we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. we re the only ones. the only ones who can save the president. the reason the special prosecutor was appointed to investigate president bill clinton was not that republicans demanded it or that some newspaper editorials and some columnist demanded it. bill clinton and his attorney janet reno would have resisted those demands from republicans. a special prosecutor was appointed because democrats demanded it, enough democrats in the house and the senate, including liberal democrats and moderate democrats agreed that there should be a special prosecutor to investigate bill
if sessions won t unrekus and mueller won t clear the president, we re the only ones. which is really the danger. that s why i keep and thank you for saying that, by the way, we have to keep all these. we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away. jill, that sounded to me like if we don t keep the majority, the president gets impeached. well, it sounds to me like we don t keep the majority, the truth will come out and we will know what s happening. and that s what he s worried about. and what i think americans should want to happen. we want to know the truth and we see the truth. it is right in front of our eyes. so when are republicans going to realize what when they give reaches in fundraisers, they are being recorded and they are making mistakes. i think tonight. i think tonight is when they will realize that. we will have to take a break in here. i think the republicans might just figure that out. when we come back, we will be