Reports and interviews that give viewers a look inside the corridors of power in Washington, D. C. My panel. Joining me on set political reporter to axios, jonathan schwan. Greg bauer, former u. S. Attorney and fbi assistant director. Ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. And White House Correspondent for bloomberg news, Shannon Petty piece along with Ashley Parker doing white house duty for the Washington Post at trumps summer get away in new jersey. Thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. I want to set the stage with you first, mr. Brower, about the potential legal jeopardy the president is putting himself in or not. How do you assess the statement that jay sekulow made there essentially saying that its not illegal . Do you think that they are now in a worse legal position than they were . Well, they are certainly not doing themselves any favors with statements like this. Ive said it before, ill say it again. Its a really bad idea for the s
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Howard fineman, an nbc news analyst who spent his tuesday in judge ellis courtroom marveling at Paul Manaforts wardrobe. Anyway, mimi, let me start with you. Define Obstruction Of Justice and is it something that has to be done in secret for it to be a crime . Sure, chuck. I want to answer the second part first. It does not have to be done in secret. The definition of Obstruction Of Justice, there are different prongs of it, depending on whether youre trying to interfere with witnesses or tamper with evidence. Its basically trying to impede an investigation corruptly, with corrupt intent, which simply could mean youre trying to stop an investigation because you dont like that that investigation is zeroing in on you or your close friends, so it cant be it has to be for a bad purpose and those would be bad purposes. And thats why this tweet right now looks so incriminating because whats happening you believe its very
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Disapprove. The numbers are shifting for the president . Talked about it for a long time. A bit of narrow casting. But this is about as narrow casting as it gets. Willie, all i can say for donald trump and republicans who are hoping, like a special election in ohio tonight, the republicans hoping that hes somehow going to get them over the finish line, even in strongly republican districts lie this ohio 12. They better hope that their small slice of the electorate comes out, because, i mean, donald trump is sacrificing just about every other group in america for this one group of white, noncollege educated voters that, again, just there just arent enough to get him over the top or to get his candidates over the top in
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Night that he found out some Bad Information about the company. And then proceeded to tip off his son who also invested in the company. So take a look at this timeline. This was on june 22nd of 2017, summer of last year. At 6 55 p. M. , the indictment says he received an email from the ceo of the company saying that a drug trial had been a failure. Now 16 minutes later, at 7 11 p. M. , he starts calling his son. He tries to make that call four times before he is successful. And at 7 16, he speaks to his son and informs him about this information that he had learned. And it is the next day, 7 42 a. M. , in the morning, that his son starts putting in orders to sell off his shares of his stock in this company. N ultimately, the indictment says that he was able to avoid some 570,000 in losses. Now a lot of congressional reporters are actually already familiar with this company Innate Immunotherapeutics
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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Lenders considered for a job in the white house. Well head to the courthouse in a few minutes for more on this developing story, what it means for the president and the Mueller Probe. As big as that legal story is for the presidency tonight, well begin with a Political Development that might be bigger for him and his party because it is happening at the ballot box. You are looking live at people voting in ohios 12 Special Elections where tonights results could show a looming disaster for republicans in november. Recent polls show this race between two generic candidates here, no real superstar, its a coin flip right now. Folks, in a district like ohio 12 which really is a district that straddles the suburbs and the exurbs out there outside of columbus, in play for a democrat like Danny Oconnor, the democrats are looking at a
battleground approaching 80some seats. If Republican Troy Balderson can eke it out, the rep