Think that this is exactly what it is. Its an indictment of 12 russians, which is a very good development. It means they are making progress on the real rush investigation, nothing to do with collusion, theres nothing politicized about it. Its finding people who did try to interfere with our election and hopefully go after them. Brian the president is about to meet with Vladimir Putin and we know the Mueller Probe is getting more unpopular. Does not have anything to do with the fact that we got this Press Conference . Charles krauthammer used to say you can almost never be too cynical when it comes to things happening in washington but i hope not. This is important stuff. The indictment, what Rod Rosenstein laid out today reveals they did some very good
alter the results of the election and there is still absolutely zero evidence of that whatsoever and it is bogging down our political process. Brian theres a big call among some leadership on the democratic side to not meet with Vladimi
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Live with a lawyer who was arguing against this policy in court today. Who will update on us whether the Trump Administration is complying with the judges timetable to put these families back together again. We start tonight with Fredrick Vaughn stew ben. He was born in 1730 in the kingdom of presha. An air that is modern day germany. At 17 he joined the preshan army and fought in the seven years war. It was one of the most sophisticated and powerful armies in the world. He had a distinguished military career, eventually becoming a top aid to fredrick the great. He also believed to be a openly gay man. Back then, being gay was a crime. In 1753 he was dismissed from the army. He was rumored he was let go because he was gay. With no job and nowhere to go,
fredrick went to america. He arrived in the states in the throes of the Revolutionary War in 1777. The Continental Army was losing. They suffered through a bit l winter at valley forge. The troops were living in filth, untrained. George
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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