presidents in their reelection efforts. do any of us here sitting here talking think the trump administration would be beyond cooking up a taunt and gulf incident if trump thought it was in his best interest to start military action in the mideast to gin up his chances for reelection? i don t think that he would have any qualms about that. he sees this entire through a personal lens. i don t think he has any real thoughts about iran or mideast policy at all. it s all about how does it make me look and will it help my reelection. this is the weird thing according to the new york times report. trump s big concern is not that we go to war, but john bolton decided we go to war. he s not the big shot and the character he wants to be. i m the boss. exactly. he doesn t want it to look as if john bolton is drives the bus. he is the only one who drives the bus. i m not sure his political
nice and one thing in a way that is obstruction. is there a nice way to say this? he s a pretty tough guy. i think it s really important that people get to the bottom of the tone and whether or not we hear this voice mail or flynn testifies before congress. the american people need to hear it for themselves. i thought we would hear that from comey. do him a favor and let him off. was that an order or a suggestion for a good old boy? comey who was the head of the criminal division as well as the former head of the fbi said he interpreted that as obstruction. he think that is the president is guilty of obstruction. if you look at this series of events, it would be one thing if there were one or two, but there are 10 from trump firing comey to trump inducing witnesses to lie. this is the president of the united states. it s almost june. waiting here for mueller. in a tweet this morning,
in a conflict and a crash. it s easy to have a clash. it s much easier to start than to stop one. the fear is not so much that donald trump is sitting in the white house saying boy, i really want to go to war with iran. it s that he is so insecure that any sort of action by iran, he will have to counter. that s the thing with me. mussolini going to war. why in the world besides ego or talking about this thing. what s the war about? it may well ultimately come down to being about trump s reelection. trump doesn t know much about much, but i think he probably knows that wars tend to help
days after the election where obama sat down and said do not hire this guy and chris christie was running the transition team saying this was not a good guy. flynn was the one who came to don mcgahn in january and said i m under investigation for russian contacts. they had tons of information after they found out by sally yates that flynn lied to the vice president and it took him 18 days to fire him. this was the same time that the president himself might be a double agent. one reason they wouldn t share information with trump is he doesn t know if he s on russia s or the united states side. put their names together. trump becoming president of the united states. flynn under investigation. he is sitting over there at a dinner party with putin and getting paid a lot of money and talking to kislyak on the phone about sanctions. what s the story here beyond the details and law breaking, what
katyal and the reverend al sharpton. don t go anywhere. when i m done, hardball with chris matthews is up next. witness tampering? let s play hardball. good evening. i m chris matthews in washington. did donald trump have his personal lawyer try to shut up the top witness against him? did he try to silence michael flynn, his first national security chief and keep him from cooperating with special counsel mueller? new will information in the case of adviser flynn is raising more questions tonight about trump s possible obstruction of justice. the washington post is reporting that the president s former top lawyer contacted flynn in an attempt to influence his decision to cooperate with prosecutors. it was one of several efforts by