Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
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trap situation and asking to end this probe even though sessions has recused himself but the mechanism would be there to end this if he wanted to. more obstruction of justice. this comes after just days of reporting after we know that the mueller team is examining trump s tweets as exhibits possible evidence of obstruction. not just to be looking at what he says behind closed doors and trump being so transparent does that quite a bit. we re also by the way, i just want to say, we were talking about this with somebody yesterday and they said, well, is it a crime if he does it all in public? if i walk into a bank and there are 30 armed guards and i say stick up, give me all your money. that is still a crime. the fact that he continues to try to obstruct justice in
yet in the same interview giuliani tried to make the case that trump had nothing to hide. mayor, if the president has done nothing wrong as you say again and again and he tells the truth he hasn t done anything wrong, george. and he tells the truth as you advised him to do, what is the danger in answering robert mueller s questions? ary they re trying to trap him. it s only a trap situation if he doesn t tell the truth. no, it isn t. it s only prosecutable if they have some built-up manipulated evidence to prove the president didn t tell the truth. how often has that happened? you believe the president is telling the truth. if you believe that, you have that conviction, you re his attorney. why don t you say go in, talk to robert mueller, tell the truth. because i wouldn t be an attorney if i did that, george. i d be living in an unreal fantasy world that everybody tells the truth. it s called the real world. joining us on set, jan palmieri.