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
rhetoric that the president throws out to his supporters. are you willing to take his word for it, whoever trump says to vote for, you vote for. i do. anything he says. he hasn t everything he says is true. it comes true. trump is a genius. put your mind his mind and my mind together, we don t match trump s brain. the man s a genius and he s cut from a different cloth, a different material. well, there you go. with me now from orlando is nbc news political reporter ali vitali who was at last night s rally, spoke with those trump supporters. during the 2016 campaign was in that pen quite a bit, as they call that press pen there. ali joins our roundtable of susan, michael and howard. so, ali, first just give us a taste of that rally last night. it just seemed a little rowdier than we ve seen a trump rally in a while. i think that s a pretty fair assessment, chuck. i have a really high tolerance
and this kind of unfocused visceral anger at the other side of really neutral people like folks in the press corps, it can lead to this. look, according to today s washington post president trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days in office. that s an average of 7.6 a day. this is not normal. we shouldn t be in the business of just shruging our shoulders and normalizing it. we ll be right back. alright, i brought in new max protein
they are. we re going to hear from some bookkeepers and accountants. they actually told us today they may be ready to rest their case by next week. this trial is moving must faster than we anticipated, chuck. could be finished in two and a half weeks. well, it s the rocket docket. that s its nickname, so all of our experts tell us. ken dilanian, thank you, sir. up ahead, president trump s unbelievable florida rally. really. much of what he said last night was not to be believed. you know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need i.d. dear foremothers, your society was led by a woman, who governed thousands. .commanded armies. .yielded to no one. when i found you in my dna, i learned where my strength comes from. my name is courtney mckinney, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 2 times more geographic detail than other dna tests.
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