official power. and that s exactly what the framers were almost obsessed with. was corruption and corruption at the highest level. they didn t want a king, they wanted someone who would not abuse their power. and intimidating witnesses would be a breach of that official power. so the, be the house seeks to add that as an article, as part of their investigation, then they have grounds to do so. can i just say something really quick about that? you re setting the president up. just for, to put it in context, he could actually be impeached for a tweet. just to put that in context. that could be an actual article of impeachment, a tweet. to that end, danny, when you talked about witness intimidation, you said it s all written about what someone does before. i mean is there anything that talks about witness intimidation concurrent with that witness testifying? in fact that s happened. and you know this is not the first time social media has been
a part of witness intimidation. frankly in my personal experience, you mostly see it in street crimes. you see people posting on facebook or twitter, don t testify or snitches get stitches is a common refrain where i try cases. and it s exactly the same thing. it s just strange that now it s being done by the most powerful, most influential man in the world. i think strange is an understatement, but okay. kevin cirilli, abigail tracy and danny sevalos. guilty on all counts, roger stone. and new testimony from a key witness with first-hand knowledge of the president s call with sondland. how it could change the course of the impeachment inquiry. this.
to fold the stormy daniels case into the california case. they want to make that argument at a later time, michael avenatti does need to get counsel for that case, he was trying to not get attorneys for both cases outside a courtroom, the 24th floor of the other courthouse that we re speaking to from earlier, michael avenatti said afterwards, he said, does anyone know when the president and don junior will be arraigned before he got into the elevator to make his way into the courthouse that s behind me here for his arainment that s coming up in the nike case. avenatti entertaining reporters. the somber mood he was in when he was arrested several weeks ago. more of himself indeed, tom winter, danny sevalos, thank you
house? how will the trump administration begin preparing for these types of investigations? well, they re constantly lawyering up. to help listeners at home make sense of all of this, we need to tie it together in a knot. if these facts are corroborated everyone turn out to be the case. the trump inauguration committee which doesn t have to file public reports about where the money is going. they raised twice as much as obama did in 2008 for his larger inauguration. this may be a way in which it ended up in the trump organization and president trump s pocket. in which case, who was getting it and what they were getting for it, is the big question. questions we will continue to follow up on, greg, charlie, danny, thank you for coming here this afternoon. as for everyone else, make sure you stick around. 24 hours before the obamacare enrollment deadline, a federal judge rules it unconstitutional.
responsibility for his dirty deeds. all right, there is a lot to chew on there. so joining me now is charlie savage, new york times washington corporate. greg brower. we ve also got danny sevalos, our msnbc legal analyst. thank you for joining us today. let s start with trump s former national security adviser, what do you make of flynn s claims against the special counsel? what does this tell you about his legal strategy moving forward? it s hard to follow, just a couple weeks ago, he flynn benefited from the special counsel s recommendation to the court that flynn received no prison time for his guilty plea for his conviction. and now he seems to be not leaving well enough alone. and he obviously has if not angered the special counsel s