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tucker: there is a new side of leah mueller investigation, russia, jim comey and trace gallagher joins us tonight to wrap up all of it. tucker, this marks the second time in eight days that former fbi director james comey has publicly slammed president trump after testifying before a house panel concerning the 2016 investigation into hillary clinton s private email server. comey said he felt compelled to talk to journalists about the rule of law and president trump tweeting that his former lawyer michael cohen is a rat. the president of the united states calls a witness who is corroborating with his own justice department a wreck. say that to yourself at home and remind yourself where we have ended up. comey also lashed out at g.o.p. lawmakers saying they shouldn t be cowed by their base ....
Back in 1987. he was in charge of it until his inauguration when his two eldest sons took over. tom joins me again and the washington post s jen ruben. also a political reporter for nbc. thank you both for being here. tom, in a nutshell, this is a legal minefield, complicated web. this thing is not what most people would think of as a charity. the allegations from the new york attorney s office, this is a foundation that has been involved with self-dealing, whether it be purchasing things that later end up on trump properties, this is an organization that has cut checks to political people and then said, well, it was for a different organization, or it was a different you re not joking, they really did this, with pam donaldi the attorney general of florida. exactly. they sent her money for her campaign. they sent her money and said, no, pam bondi s fun was in justice for all. said, no, we sent it for justice for all which is located in kansas. that s not true. ....
.fearless. .and there s no looking back, because i am cured. talk to your doctor about mavyret. breaking news, we re getting a first look at the transcripts, they re long, from the closed-door hearing yesterday between former fbi director james comey and house republicans on the oversight and judiciary committees. gop lawmakers are reinvestigating the fbi s investigation into hillary clinton s private e-mail server and those meetings seem to fuel this reaction from a fired-up former fbi director. it undermines the rule of law. this is the president of the united states calling a witness who s cooperating with his own justice department a wreck. say that again to yourself at home and remind yourself where we have ended up. this is a set of values that represents the glue of this country, and they re under attack by things just like that. we have to stop being numb to ....
The guy has a history that might have made the flynn people suggest he might be a sympathetic ear but it looks like the flynn defense team miscalculated. yeah, it was a bad read. i ve covered judge sullivan for years. there are some judges who want to go off and live a monastic, loifterred lifestyle and that is not judge sullivan. i remember sitting in his courtroom, he presided over ted stevens, the former alaska senator. the prosecution there committed some real real problematic instances of misconduct. and judge sullivan had none of it. i remember he gave this 14-minute speech just absolutely skewering the justice department for the handling of that case. i can see why the flynn defense team might have thought, boy, if we float this idea maybe flynn got a raw deal from the government you might get same pathetic ear. but the problem with that is ....
Something. so when they do, that we will make a determination whether or not we re going to sign that. in the meantime we re looking at every avenue available to us possible. the president asked every one of his cabinet secretaries to look for funding that can be used to protect our borders and to give the president the ain t bility fulfill his constitutional obligation to protect the american people by having a secure border. here s the thing, if there s no deal by friday night a couple of key departments including homeland security and justice would be forced to suspend operations. more than 420,000 essential employees like tsa agents, air traffic controllers may have to work without being paid. another 380,000 federal employees would be told to stay home until the shutdown is over. and all of this is going to happen over the holidays. joining me to talk about this is montana democratic senator jon tester, who sits on the appropriations committee. senator, good to see you. thank yo ....