the president launching another twitter tirade today, falsely accusing falsely accusing robert mueller and his investigators of ignoring the truth and seeking out lies. mueller has crucial court filings this week which will reveal a lot about the direction of the russia investigation, and that s apparently what s rattling this president. i want to bring in now neal katyal. thank you for coming on this evening. thank you, don. tomorrow we re going to see the sentencing document for michael flynn. we ve heard almost nothing from him for a year now. friday is a memo on manafort, why that deal blew up. if president trump is already having a twitter meltdown, just wait. what do you think is going to happen? yeah, i don t think this is just a meltdown. i think it s something far more serious. this isn t like some gotcha game that the left has invented or
the president launching another twitter tirade today, falsely accusing falsely accusing robert mueller and his investigators of ignoring the truth and seeking out lies. mueller has crucial court filings this week which will reveal a lot about the direction of the russia investigation, and that s apparently what s rattling this president. i want to bring in now neil cot y al cattial. thank you for calming on this evening. thank you, don. tomorrow we re going to see the sentencing document for michael flynn. we ve heard almost nothing from him for a year now. friday is a memo on manafort, why that deal blew up. if president trump is already having a twitter meltdown, just wait. what do you think is going to happen? yeah, i don t think this is just a meltdown. i think it s something far more serious. this isn t like some gotcha game that the left has invented or something like that. i mean what we saw today is the president engaging in something that looks very much like
mueller following the president beforehand didn t make any public announcements. made no notable public moves in the lead up to the election. that was a sugar high period for trump. he was on the campaign trail a lot which he loves to do. he s in front of adoring audiences. he was talking up a red wave. then things just sort of came to a head. the election didn t go as well as he wanted it to obviously. and he s now faced with the possibility of having a very sort of inconsequential lame duck and this whole mueller thing coming to a head in a way that is going to be incredibly problematic politically for the rest of his term. so he is stewing in the white house. he s not happy with how things are going. he has vented on twitter more than he had been. the question, as michael has been trying to get at, what exactly is prompting this specifically? is there a any development? why can t they answer these questions? there was nothing on fox news, for instance, this morning about the mueller
happening behind the scenes. you have all these things happening in the periphery, for instance. you noted michael cohen being in d.c. the fact that rick gates is still a cooperateliing witness. there are triggering moments, but nothing known about why he act the the way he did. we are investigating the sound and the fury as is our job. while we re tempted to go back through the president s twitter tirade today and say, you know what? mueller didn t serve obama for eight years. he served for four. and for the record, his last two senate confirmations were 98-0 because they were absent and 100 to nothing for the fbi director. leaving that aside, tamara, beyond sound and fury, how did the trump agenda advance so far this week? you know, to be honest, he actually did do something this week, and it s funny, he isn t talking about it.
happening behind the scenes. you have all these things happening in the periphery, for instance. you noted michael cohen being in d.c. the fact that rick gates is still a cooperating witness. that clear little are triggering moments but we don t know exactly why the president this morning acted the way he did. tam malra, we re investigating is the sound and the fury as is so often our job. while we re tempted to go back through the president s twitter tirade today and say, you know what? mueller didn t serve obama for eight years. he served for four. and for the record, his last two senate confirmations were 98-0 because two were absent and 100-0 for the fbi director. leaving that aside, tamara, beyond sound and fury, how did the trump agenda advance so far this week? you know, to be honest, he actually did do something this week, and it s funny, he isn t talking about it.