Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Joining us now intelligence and National Security reporter for nbc news, politics editor at theroot. Com and former Chief Adviser or al gore and a former senior aid to president obama. When a trump tweet ends with National Disgrace, a tweet that includes a misspelling by the president , it reminds me of the days when misspelling was a National Disgrace when done by the Vice President of the United States, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. Here is the president and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news hes reading or being read to him in the New York Times. Lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. You could, yes. By the way he seems to be
responding to these things. I have to say i have been avoiding that word sin
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. What mr. Mcgahn had said, according to a person close to the president. Yesterday in what was for reasons we will get to later Rudy Giulianis most spectacularly ridiculous tv interview ever, giuliani actually admitted that the Trump Lawyers do not know everything don mcgahn told the Special Prosecutor. We have a good sense, obviously, of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out. How do you say that, good sense . Have you debriefed him . No, no. But mr. Dowd has a good sense of it. He talked to them at the time. The times reports that Rudy Giuliani refused to follow trumps orders on television yesterday. The article sent out of a scramble on saturday. The president sequestered at his private golf club and solicited opinions on the possible repercussions from the article. The president ordered
said came into our country illegally. so when reports came of melania trump coming in illegally, he said she s got it so documented. and then melania trump remained absolutely silent about her immigration history and her immigration documents. the next couple of weeks passed, and she didn t say a word about her immigration history. but finally today, two years and 11 days after donald trump made that promise, melania trump finally stepped up to a microphone and said this: good morning. it is great to be here with all of you today. i m honored to open this important summit on cyber bullying prevention. and want to start by thanking each of you for your commitment to the topic.
and so once again the only first lady in history who, in donald trump s words as he put it two years ago, quote, may have come into our country illegally still has not had that little news conference that donald trump promised where she would reveal all the details of her immigration history and put out her immigration documents, showing to us she didn t come here illegally or work here illegally ever. today she spoke for four whole minutes of cyber bullying prevention. she read words that were written for her by her staff. so she never mentioned the biggest cyber bully in the world. she never offered her perspective on how you bring up a 12-year-old boy in an american household with a 72-year-old father who is not just a cyber bully but is the biggest cyber bully in history. no president in our lifetime has
immigration documents. the next couple of weeks passed, and she didn t say a word about her immigration history. but finally today, two years and 11 days after donald trump made that promise, melania trump finally stepped up to a microphone and said this: good morning. it is great to be here with all of you today. i m honored to open this important summit on cyber bullying prevention. and want to start by thanking each of you for your commitment to the topic. and so once again the only first lady in history who, in donald trump s words as he put it two years ago, quote, may have come into our country illegally still has not had that little news conference that donald trump promised where she would reveal all the details of her immigration history and put out her immigration documents, showing to us she didn t come