characters among their peer group, right? so he and meadows are the only ones that defied their subpoena. eastman and the others managed to do enough not to end up on trial for not complying. there s always a tendency, and i try to avoid it, but there s always a tendency to make a relative argument. navarro relative to the worst coup plotters was the worst, and i think that s why this was so speedy. one of the pivotal turns in the navarro story was coming on your show and bragging about, you know, the coup plot. i don t think that helped his case today in court. i don t think it helped his case. as you rightly point out it s always a thing for us, because we re trying to cover everything, so we re not trying to overdo when they re there or involved. but yes, it s a matter of public record that after that interview was when he was first subpoenaed, and it definitely hurts your case logically although they didn t need to prove this and i ll get into this later in the show.
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he s an msnbc and msnbc national affairs analyst. i m like madonna at this point. i gave you one name. some day you ll thank me. we ll talk about that later. daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. we re going to boil you down to one name, too. take us through the significance of this sort of i think it s just a side show. people have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to rudy giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the president can survive an interview with the special counsel. the president can t survive twitter. that s right, special counsel is now looking at his tweets. every tweet has a misstatement or a lie, so they re absolutely right to be concerned that if the president were to go into an interview with incredibly well prepared prosecutors who have not just the president s tweets and his
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probe s next target. one of his close allies, the manhattan madam, testifying before a grand jury in the investigation today, while another one of stone s allies is being held in contempt of court today for refusing to comply with the judge s order to testify. which means he s choosing potential jail time over cooperating with robert mueller. here to help us understand all the day s developments, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and law professor, frank figliuzzi. on set with us white house reporter from the the washington post ashley parker and mike schmidt from sniemz. the new york times. joyce, let me start with you and the machinations of this for a nonlawyer and someone outside this court, it seems like a bizarre, bizarre trial with a very interesting character as a judge. tell us what it means that they were on pause for so long, do we know what they were doing and what are the scenarios for what could have been going on.
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the 06-day period. this needs to be over with soon. i think it s been very bad for the country and we re at a point in this inquiry where they can wrap it up. mayor, i know you ve said and i said we want to see this come to closure soon here. mayor? yes, we do. it s about time that it ends. i also think and i hope the special counsel is sensitive it as we are. we do not want to run into the november elections. so you back up from that, this should be over with by september 1st. i think it needs to end very soon and it needs to end very soon because the nature of what s taking place here is irregular and that s being kind. from lock her up to wrap it up, that sounds like lawyer speak for we might be losing. the latest evolution of their messaging strategy from no dough lugs to collusion isn t really a crime to let s call the whole thing off, we see more signs today mueller is zeroi