u.s. attorney general under president clinton. he is now a professor at ucsd school of political science. and mieke eoyang vice president for national security program at third way. harry litman, i want you to take us into the world of the special prosecutor, special prosecutors, when a book like fire and fury comes out, and steve bannon is quoted at length speculating about possible crimes and misdemeanors of the trump circle, is that something the special prosecutor grabs, starts reading and underlining? i think so. and it s not whether bannon thinks that a meeting is treasonous. it s not his legal conclusions. but there are facts in there. the one you just mentioned, lawrence, about did trump jr. take the russians up to visit and see trump, which would be devastating evidence on collusion. discreet facts like that that he can question him on. and i did want to mention based on your last segment the reason
apology that could make us feel that he just made a mistake, an honest mistake. and so we waited for that apology. and after one full day and night went by with john kelly exposed as having been completely wrong in what he said about congresswoman wilson, and he did not apologize, what could have been a mistake really looked like a lie. because not apologizing for his untrue statements was a very, very deliberate choice. not a mistake. we now have gone 89 days without john kelly apologizing for what we can now clearly see as an outright lie. not a mistake about congresswoman wilson. john kelly takes his place on the white house payroll as one of the paid liars of donald trump, paid with taxpayer money. he has chosen 89 days of
6 3 , 239 pounds. the president would be clinically obese if he was just an inch shorter, which he probably is. here is a photograph of jeb bush who is 63 standing beside donald trump who looks distinctly shorter than jeb bush. the white house press corps seemed stunned that the president, who cannot button the button on his suit coat isn t much heavier. did you take a waist measurement for the president? i think he is at 239, right? i think that s just shy of obesity, right? it is. you re confident of that number? and did you do any measurements? we don t do measurements. with edo height and weight. you can put him in the bmi calculator. we ve never done measurements, you know. there is not a lot you know, there is not a lot in it at this point. we don t do any measurements. ooh, okay, doctor. but the doctor did something no white house physician before him
prosecutor. the times reports that mr. mueller is likely to allow mr. bannon to forgo the grand jury appearance if he agrees to be questioned by investigators in the less formal setting of the special counsel s offices. the subpoena came davis michael wolff s book fire and fury was released. in the book, steve bannon is reported as harshly criticizing president trump, his family and members of his staff, and speculating about their legal culpability. bannon called the trump tower meeting between donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and a group including a russian lawyer, a group of russians including a russian lawyer, he called that meeting treasonous and unpatriotic. he told michael wolff, the author of the book the chance that don jr. did not walk these people up to his father s office on the 26th floor is zero. joining us now, harry litman, former u.s. attorney and deputy