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Dramafree weekend. No such luck. This morning, a Major Development in the controversy over President Trumps firing of james comey. A memo from former fbi director claims the president asked him to drop an investigation into Michael Flynn the day after flynn was fired. The big question this morning, is this obstruction of justice among other things . The chaos continues. This feels like a defining moment. With us we have New York Times reporter who broke this comey memo story, Michael Schmidt, senior political analyst for nbc news and msnbc, mark halperin. Veteran columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle and former democratic congressman harold ford ....
Well-known saying about history. history doesn t repeat itself but it often rhymes. james fallow has written a piece saying in some respects, while it s too easy to talk about watergate, in some respects what we re dealing with is far more significant than a third-rate burglary intended to get information to embarrass enemies, political enemies. in this case we have something that seems to be spiraling out of conol so much more quickly than did watergate or anything else of its kind. where are we right now? no hyperbole, no nothing, not being hyperbolic, but where are we right now? joe, i would think from michael s fine reporting in the new york times we re right at the edge of title 18 section 1503 of the united states code, which is obstruction of justice. we have director como s ....
Ashcroft half conscious said no, we won t do it. we won t sign off on it. muller took notes about it, comey kept notes about it. it didn t become public until years later when comey revealed it in this dramatic testimony before the senate judiciary committee, and it was explosive for the white house. if i could just add to joe s point, one interesting aspect of that episode is when comey in 2004 was summoned to the white house, he said i will not go to that meeting unless i have a witness. he asked ted olson, the solicitor general, to be his witness. he leaves an evidentiary trail when he believes there will be political pressure on law enforcement. jeremy, on the other front burner we have the case of the intelligence leaks. we have the case of, we re told israel, perhaps their intelligence sources compromised, perhaps another country in the middle east. ....
Trump asked comey to stay behind after the meeting was breaking up and they spoke alone. according to a source at the new york times he said flynn had done nothing wrong. trump saying, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting flynn go. he s a good guy. i hope you can let this go. the memo said comey did not say anything to trump about curtailing the investigation, e replying only, i agree he s a good guy. the white house responded by saying it is not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation. stating while the president has repeatedly expressed his view that general flynn is a decent man who served and protected our country, the president has never asked mr. comey or anyone else to end any investigation. skr joe, is it fair to say with your legal background and the guests we have that we are looking at potential of obstruction of ....
Information to russia, you had the national security adviser run out and try to cover it up. and then this screaming story, perhaps the worst story of them all, that donald trump is pressuring the fbi director to drop the investigation. as heilemann points out this morning, nobody has gone out. nobody is on camera denying it. there is no name attached to a denial from the white house because they have seen what happens when other people do out and deny. they get caught in a lie. so this is a president who has isolated himself. you enumerated the points powerfully, joe. i think jonathan turley, his comments about whether or not this rises to the level or not. i think a number of questions, he raises a lot of legitimate points. two questions i have based on what you shared, how you laid it ....