what could be. in any form but they really want to damage me so i can no longer go back to work for you and i don t think that s going to happen. i don t know that our movement is that divided. i don t know that the president and i differ on issues. but we may differ on focus. bret: breaking tonight what could be a preview of the battle of the 2024 presidential nomination. former president trump and former vice president pence addressing separate conservative groups today here in washington. senior national correspondent rich edson is at one of them tonight. good evening, rich. former president trump and former vice president mike pence giving two very different speeches in washington today. the former president just wrapped here. he gave a speech, lasted about an hour, hour and a half or so. in doing so, he mentioned a number of typically trump topics when it came to safety, economy. other issues like the january 6th i economy, impeachment, and the 2020 election. i
i m for keeping them up. and what to make of the president s opioid announcement. if we can teach young people and people generally not to start, it s really, really easy not to take them. when all in starts now. good evening from new york. i m joy reid in for chris hayes. tonight amid signs that robert mueller s investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. there s no way the american people can trust robert mueller to investigate anything russian related. what really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, andrew wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. we have to have mueller fired. yes, robert mueller, i hope you re watching. oh robert mueller, are you awake tonight? robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible? to be fair and impartial, it s impossible because of his past role in this. he s
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love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth there s a major disconnect. there was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. another one said 3,000. another five a day. another ten a day. if you sit down with mueller, if they don t have obstruction, we don t know whether they do. he s tweeting. his state of mind is all over the place. he could say he fired comey. if they don t have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, it s conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. so why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when you re going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because that s what this president does, period. harry, so far mueller hasn t moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. this negotiation has been going on since january that
clinton and don, jr. among others. and there is more. a federal judge is forcing a long-time aide to trump advisor roger stone to turnover documents and testify before a grand jury hearing, hearing evidence in the mueller investigation. stone sought damaging information about hillary clinton from wikileaks, the website which published thousands of hacked democratic e-mails, e-mails stolen by russian hackerses, hackers the trump justice department identified as agents of the russian government. there are also new developments in the trial of the president s former campaign manager, paul manafort s bookkeeper testifying that her boss was effectively broke and lying to banks about his precarious financial situation after losing his biggest client, which is the pro-russian former ukrainian president. and that was right about the same time that manafort started working for the trump campaign. the bookkeeper also testified that she knew nothing of foreign accounts controlled by manafort. t