implications for the trump administration when you look at this story? so i think the bigger point here is that here is somebody w who, their state department bio was vetted and approved by the state department. they received a security clearance from the fbi and the state department, and we ve heard from both democrats and republicans that the vetting that goes on at the white house for political appointees, as you know, and you have reported on has been sloppy. i think this definitely shines a light on the vetting process that goes on for foez appointees. certainly does. laura strictler, thank you for your report. thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live. right now more news with my friend and colleague craig melvin. kristen welker, haven t seen you since the debate. fine work. thank you. it was an honor to do it. we ll see you tomorrow. have a good thanksgiving. craig melvin at msnbc
in her book, license to lie about the justice department. part of that technique is you throw the kitchen sink. you basically threaten somebody w and say, i m going to bankrupt you, i m going to put your son in jail. i am going to charge with you so many different crimes you will never get out from under it. now would you like to talk? and when you have thee full power of the federal government against you, it s pretty tough not to try to find a way to get them off your back. it has nothing to do with the truth. it has nothing to do with justice. and, mueller, i think, in a really sadne historians some day will comment that this was one of the most extraordinary efforts to undo the will of the american people by an established bureaucracy and its establishment friends that we have seen in all of american history.. i want to make one point just to put this in context. donald trump, after 92% negative coverage for two years, 92% negative coverage for two years, is somewhere between 4
the fbi duty. but the fbi is not responsible. i think the blame lies with the white house that straitjacketed this investigation. laura: you heard that throughout the protest today, that this investigation was circumscribed artificially. the deadline was artificial. the real facts didn t get out and this was a rush job and frankly a con job. that s what the left and the protesters were saying. he lied about his service ine vietnam, he didn t serve in vietnam but during vietnam and that s not just the difference of a word. this is somebody w that set rigt behind it mazie hirono of hawaii last week when she said, i just want to tell the men of america to shut up. and he smirked. that s one thing i agree with with her, he should definitely stop lying about the fbi and its investigation and with the white house did or didn tit do.
i am going to ask all of those people to recommend to me, because that s what they re protesting, people that they think were unfairly treated by the justice system. i told the nfl players indrei indirect indirectly, you have somebody w who are aggrieved. i have not heard from them. maybe they called the staff but i personally have not heard from them. president trump got his response tuesday when the new york times published an op-ed from four nfl players, three active, written tired. its title is a direct response to the president s proposal. quote, here s whom you should
opposed. where do you stand? i m opposed to it, but i think you re right in saying we need to step back and say why are we here, what has led to this. i didn t say that. i said what are we going to do about it? in order to do something we need to know why he was it. as you know, it s a 2008 policy that was continued under the obama administration. it s i don t want to go back over that. we ve done that all this week. wee hitt it wrong we have hit it with many guests. going forward, let s talk about the legislation that is pending going forward. but marinetin, as somebody w has voted on immigration reform and worked for immigration reform and sat in the legislative chair, you need to know the history. we can skip that and say that we do have a choice in the house between two pieces of legislation. just as there was a choice this year, january of 2018, when the