Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Important meeting because i never even heard that. As far as you know, this is all of it. This is everything. This is everything. All right. So who do you believe . Joining me now to break this down, former state Department Senior adviser. Paul butler, Professor Of Law at georgetown law school. Former fbi agent. Clint watts author of messing with the enemy. David k johnson and former watergate prosecutor. Wow, we just have an embarrassment of riches. Im going to go Around The Horn and talk about. Im going to start with you paul. Just on how this changes the legal case. Trump tower meeting. June 3. Donald trump jr. Gets email from Rob Goldstone saying moscow supports his fathers candidacy. He responded if its what you say it is, i love it. Trump junior and goldstone finalize a date. Same day trump teases this major speech. June 8 russian intelligence
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You dont believe that to be the case . We acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. If you dont catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. With that being said, ill go along with russia. Could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. Make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. Ive seen it described as two administrations. John mclaughlin says were seeing orwellian. You have senior advisers saying over and over again as you heard there. And then you have the president saying something entirely different. What do you make of it and what is the lasting effect of that . One thing that we didnt see in that clip is even john bolton said that the president supports our efforts and top priority. Exactly. But that is not true because the
of law, but court of public opinion. And he is really good at that about tapping into his base.
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. Mueller outlining their defenses of the president on Obstruction Of Justice. The key element of their defense was that President Trump did not know that his National Security adviser Michael Flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. James comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let it go. The Trump Defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute Obstruction Of Justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating Michael Flynn. But murray waass reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by White House Counsel Don Mcgahn showing e
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Latest offer for an interview in the Russia Investigation. And tonight the Washington Post is reporting muellers most recent offer would cut the number of questions to the president in the interview about Obstruction Of Justice by nearly half. Cutting it by nearly half is not good enough for the president. Obstruction in any form is Something Team trump has been very clear is a nonstarter. You said what the president would be willing to sit down sort of figure out in the area of collusion, not obstruction. Meaning he would answer questions about collusion, not obstruction or vice versa . No, collusion, not obstruction. So, very clear, right . Not obstruction. Collusion okay, not obstruction. The fact that obstruction is still part of the interview appears to be setting the president off. He tweeted, this is a terrible situation and attorney Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it stnz to stain our coun
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Issue even after the league itself changed the policy to keep these protests from happening. Even when the league isnt even playing. When its in the off season. The president still seems to relish going after africanamerican athletes. Its something that he just seems to always jump at. Something he seems to prioritize. This is unusual. This is not typical behavior for a president. President s dont normally go after private citizens or people who participate in sports. But trump does it again and again. I think thats part of the reason, he gets so much criticism from people in the civil rights community. Theres a lot at play here. Hub ris is one part of it. I was talking to Congressman Ryan from the 13th District in ohio a few moments ago. As the president prepares to go to ohio, insulting one of its favorite athletes whos probably not the wisest thing for the president to do. Lets talk a bit about