speak up in our classrooms because students are being affected by this. i thi we need to have a bigger opinion and more topics on how we can help change this. nice to talk to both of you. very important topic at the grio.com. president trump went after james comey, andrew mccabe and robert mueller s team, accusing comey of lying under oath, mccabe of fake memos and questioning robert mueller s team. let me start with one thing that the president tweeted this morning. he said the mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and no crime. it was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by krked hillary and the dnc.
how much have things changed in the last few days? i think we ve seen significant changes in the overall context of this investigation. but one thing doesn t change. robert mueller is going to do his work, wake up every day with his team of prosecutors including andrew weissman who focuses on financial crimes which is i i think president trump is freaking out in this moment. they re going to continue to do their work. the court of lau is something that s going to remain intact, that case. but the court of public opinion is what president trump is trying to impact when he s tweeting things like this. essentially that s all of the arguments he s been using against the mueller probe in one single tweet. he s saying the investigation started out because of a phony dossier. that is actually not true. the investigation started because he fired james comey and the doj appointed him to be the special counsel. that s actually what happened. and also, to say that the dossier is fake doesn t
here to give us an insider s take on his stop and what else is ahead in the week, senior editor for politics telling us what to watch for. the president going to new hampshire. ivanka is going where and why is that significant? she s going to iowa. they re both going out on the same day. trump is going to talk about opioids in new hampshire, a place he s referred to in the past as a drug infested den. it s where he really got his first victory in the 2016 primary. ivanka will be in iowa doing a jobs event. what s significant is both states, they re the number one states, first primary in new hampshire, first caucus is in iowa. why is this political fire power going out now? that s what i m watching for. whether the two of them will make any explicit discussions of 2020, of the president s politics and his 2020 election bid, we know he s planning to
justice, you have to prove intent. that s a high bar. if you continue to look at the pattern, the statements and the tweets all the statements made by president trump s lawyers and everybody around him, it does add up to that building pattern of obstruction of justice which most people think is ultimately what could get the president in a lot of trouble here. great to talk to both of you. with the president ramping up his attacks on robert mueller and his team, a new piece in the atlantic is america on the verge of a constitutional crisis. ben wit says there s a better term and it s constitutional rot. senior fellow at the brooks kings institution and editor of law fair. you talk about constitutional crisis. we re more familiar with what that may mean or might mean. help us with constitutional rot. what s that? constitutional crisis is an acute moment in which the constitutional order is tested,
operation ready for when this was going to happen, whether or not he was forced out or whether or not he would retire early. it s obvious that he believes he has evidence that could incriminate the president along with james comey and he thinks that s the reason why now the president is trying to undermine him. shelby, an amazing, pr onslaught. statements from friends and colleagues of his as well. let s talk about his broader point in that statement, he s one component part of a larger attack on law enforcement. how is that resonating with lawmakers. chuck schumer calling upon republicans to stand up to protect bob mueller s investigation? is it gaining ground? we heard senator lindsey graham say red line, if trump touches mueller, his republican colleagues believe that would be a red line for them, yet, we haven t really heard much from them so it s unclear. some legal experts say trump