Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
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so collins word of the year is permacrisis. i think most of us will probably understand it. unprecedented has run out of steam. annus horribilis is limited to just one year. most of us feel we have descended into something really horrible for some time now, so permacrisis seems entirely fitting. permacrisis, right. what is the definition of permacrisis? it is a sort of ongoing feeling that we are in an extended period of, i don t know, instability, insecurity, anxiety, because it is one catastrophic event after another. it s something that describes an unrelenting situation, ithink, which, you know, i think feel is probably quite apt for 2022. it s a movie lover s dream more than 1500 rare tv and film
tonight. that race you mentioned in georgia, this is really been a colorful and shall we say one of the more interesting races. this mike collins guy, runs a trucking company. you know what he does for his campaign events? he drives a 18-wheeler to events. he s all about donald trump. his opponent, vernon jones is all ant donald trump two. two years ago, vernon jones changed parties from democrat to republican. and donald trump said i don t want you to run in the governor s race against brian kemp. i want you to run in this congressional direct, georgia number 10. that s what jones is doing. so collins is sending out tweets. he will call vernon jones a democrat with the last three letters in capps, go back to dekalb county. vernon jones did not live in
referring to rumors that this was engineered as a bio weapon when he mentioned the word conspiracy. so i asked white house press secretary jim saki in the briefing whether that was a conclusion or the view of the administration that this was not engineered because collins was referencing that idea as a conspiracy and didn t get a clear answer, pointed us to relate to the investigation that still ongoing 90 days or so, the president ordered a review. so collins and fauci do you have that sound? he has been an undeniable asset in our countries pandemic response but it s obviously not that advantageous to relitigate this email from several months ago. we launched it based on the president s direction, and entire internal review process to use all of the resources across the government to get to the bottom of the origins and