Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Mueller outlining their defenses of the president on Obstruction Of Justice. The key element of their defense was that President Trump did not know that his National Security adviser Michael Flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. James comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let it go. The Trump Defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute Obstruction Of Justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating Michael Flynn. But murray waass reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by White House Counsel Don Mcgahn showing e
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. And we already know that Robert Mueller has found links and coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of donald trump. The meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign shows there are links between the russian government and the campaign. We already know that when the russian government offered to coordinate with donald trump jr. To provide dirt on Hillary Clinton donald trump jr. Said i love it. Now, we have no idea what other links and coordination Robert Mueller has found between the russian government and the Trump Campaign. And we dont know whether any of those links and coordination constitute criminal conduct by anyone named trump. Weve watched donald trump on the Campaign Stage publicly try to link with the russian government and coord
we re with here tonight are lawyers and i m going to not play a lawyer on tv leek i sometimes try to and just say a couple things about a couple of the humans we re talking about here. guys like reince priebus and don mcgahn, if this timeline exists, if murray waas s reporting is right and they were brought in to talk about mueller, they testified to it. because neither one of those guys is going to perjure themselves for donald trump. another guy we ve got to always remember, there are a lot of problems with him as a political actor, but steve bannon who very quickly identified to michael wolfe and other people and the obstruction of justice thing was going to be the thing that would hang trump because of the fact firing comey is the worst political decision you ve ever made because he knew, not necessarily directly, not necessarily because he was involved in putting together these timelines but because he was everywhere in that white house and he knew what the truth of these stories
ongoing. and so how does donald trump handle that? in any kind of interchange with the special prosecutor. because just like the word collusion and the word conspiracy are not in robert mueller s remit and obstruction of justice is not in it neither is the word perjury. perjury s a big problem for donald trump not only because he s a liar but because he s already told so many lies that so many people on the inside know are lies, the lawyers that we re with here tonight are lawyers and i m going to not play a lawyer on tv leek i sometimes try to and just say a couple things about a couple of the humans we re talking about here. guys like reince priebus and don mcgahn, if this timeline exists, if murray waas s reporting is right and they were brought in to talk about mueller, they testified to it. because neither one of those guys is going to perjure themselves for donald trump. another guy we ve got to always remember, there are a lot of