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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in these interviews. Now what we do know now is that after the week stories, by the times don mcgahns attorney has alerted and assured trumps own legal team that don mcgahn provided no information that was incriminating to the president , did not incriminate him. In fact, don mcgahns lawyer was putting tear mind to ease, sent them information saying my guy does not incriminate your guy. Are you serving the office of the presidency and you are serving the american public. Youve got to balance those two ....
Did that. one was they believed very strongly in a 1990 case a ruling, which a clinton era case, which basically said you can t force the president to sit down for an interview, if you have all information you need from other sources. voilla, all the staffers, all those records. well, now it s looking pretty smart to have done what they did in the sense that, trump doesn t want to sit down or at least trump s lawyers at this moment don t want him to sit down for an interview, are petrified he will perjure himself by mistake or intentionally the strategy which was heavily criticized has this one nice wrinkle to it. this one nice layer. now, that doesn t change the fact that don mcgahn hated this strategy from day one. he thought it was dangerous for exactly the reason i has pointed out this rule has two special duties. you are representing the office of the president and are you representing the president. ....
Staffers. let s get all the documents released. let s sends them all on over to mueller and let him sort through this there were two reasons they did that. one was they believed very strongly in a 1990 case a ruling, which a clinton era case, which basically said you can t force the president to sit down for an interview, if you have all information you need from other sources. voilla, all the staffers, all those records. well, now it s looking pretty smart to have done what they did in the sense that, trump doesn t want to sit down or at least trump s lawyers at this moment don t want him to sit down for an interview, are petrified he will perjure himself by mistake or intentionally the strategy which was heavily criticized has this one nice wrinkle to it. this one nice layer. now, that doesn t change the fact that don mcgahn hated this strategy from day one. he thought it was dangerous for ....
Some time. there has been so much that has been unusual, atypical, marched by celebrity, money and other issues. i think what we observed just now is a proceeding that was normal, that was typical. this is perhaps a final chapter of the o.j. saga and it s one where we re seeing a reversion to the mean and to the normal course. it would have been highly unusually for this parole board to do anything other than what we just observed, which was to process this, to hear from the defendant, to look at the point system, to marry from anyone else relevant in this case the victim, and to come back and return a verdict in this case a ruling based on those points. that s what they did. normal, normal, normal. and these calls and we heard some i think somewhat newsworthy on your air here from a former prosecutor suggesting that the law should not govern, that an acquittal who that conduct accused and not found guilty in the justice system whether you agree or not should have somehow ....