Out of town, hope the whole thing fizzles before youre gone. That does it for us tonight. We will see you again tomorrow. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. And you know who else quit when the investigation pressure became too tough . President richard nixon. So there is a president ial model of quitting when the investigation stuff gets too tough. And a Vice President ial model with spiro agnew, my buddy. I know. We didnt know pruitt was under criminal investigation until he left the epa months later. We know that about zinke even as he leaves. And there are so many investigations now in trump world that some of them, surely some of them will outlive at least this first and possibly only term of the trump presidency. People are now starting to make lists of what actual like criminal investigations we know are under way with regard to the Trump Administration, and you have to compartmentize them. You have to do the ones just about the president and his family, just
The first crack in the dam, the first one that they lost was when the judge in the ongoing roger stone case issued an order commanding the Justice Department to take out the redactions from the Mueller Report that pertain to the case against roger stone. The judge ordered that the Justice Department had to take out the redactions about the stone case, also about the dissemination of documents stolen by the russians during the Trump Campaign. Also about the potential involvement of the Trump Campaign with the entities that were feeding those materials out to the public to benefit trumps campaign. The judge in the roger stone case less than two weeks ago ordered the Justice Department to unredact all the material in muellers report on those topics, and she told the Justice Department that they needed to show her that undegree rest dre material. I really think that was the first crack in the dam. The attorney general saying no, they wont release the redacted parts of the Mueller Report, n
Federal crimes, betrayed the nation. All of that part of this Closing Argument by the democrats. Now the senate is no longer waiting to see what happens. You have democratic leader Chuck Schumer demanding that trumps trial include the kind of firsthand witnesses that the white house has been blocking, including Mick Mulvaney, and of course, mr. Drug deal himself, john bolton. Trials have witnesses. Thats what trials are all about. To engage a trial without the facts coming out is to engage in a coverup. The American People will rightly ask what are you, leader mcconnell, and what is President Trump hiding. Democrats also reminding republican senators of the exact oath they actually have to take at the start of the trial, something weve covered right here on the beat. It is a pledge to do, quote, impartial justice according to the constitution and the laws, so help me god. You can keep that oath in mind, though, as you listen to republican senator lindsey graham. I am trying to give a p
A little bit under two weeks ago. The first crack in the dam is something that we saw just less than two weeks ago. It actually feels like a year ago now. But it was may 9th, which is less than two weeks ago, and that was the first one. That was when the president and the Trump Administration more broadly started losing these battles that they have been waging now for a while to try to lock down everything, to try to lock down every witness, every document, every source of information about the president , to lock down everything in the wake of the mueller investigation, to block anything from coming out. The first crack in the dam, the first one that they lost was when the judge in the ongoing roger stone case issued an order commanding the Justice Department to take out the redactions from the Mueller Report that pertain to the case against roger stone. The judge ordered that the Justice Department had to take out the redactions about the stone case, also about the dissemination of d
Congressional testimony from the acting director of National Intelligence and the Inspector General, and we have brand new revelations about the whistleblower whose explosive complaint touched off the impeachment inquiry now underway. The New York Times reports new details about the intel officer who raised concerns about trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. The times reports the conversation, quote, raised alarms not only about what the two men said in a phone call but also about how the white house handled records of the conversatio conversation, according to two people briefed on the report. The whistleblower identified multiple people as witnesses who could corroborate the complaint, the people said. Adding that the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson, interviewed witnesses. Atkinson also found reason to believe that the whistleblower may not support the reelection of mr. Trump and made clear that the complainant was not in a position to d