Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Thats right, katy. You know, the president tweeted sunday in response to our article that he is not worried about don jr. , but people who have been talking to him on the phone say in fact he is worried about his son. He is worried about a lot of aspects related to this russia probe, which is getting closer and closer to him, to his family, to his associates, to his orbit. Its uncomfortable at the moment. There is some concern that he has that his son may be found to have violated the law somehow, you know. One person speculated maybe his son could have perjured himself in interviews at some point. I mean, the president just doesnt know at this point what could be in store for his son. It is a source of concern and its one of many things thats fueling what were seeing, which is a real public lashing by the president of mueller again and again and again, tweeting more than he has before about the wit
archives web site. they ve got a very long laundry list of people who have inappropriately taken classified information or presidential records throughout the years, and again, have faced criminal charges. but, you know, prosecutors want to get a rock solid case down. we have talked a lot about the espionage act and where this falls on the sliding scale of the severity on the espionage act, and as my colleagues, develin barrett and josh previously reported, right now prosecutors are viewing trump s motive as more less trying to sell state secrets and more motivated in the fact that he wanted to keep these documents. it was ego driven. he felt like these items, the letters from kim jong un and other high profile presidential items were his regardless of that, though, he still could face some very similar criminal charges. washington post jackie alemany digging deep on this
case. there could be reasons why he saw the writing on the wall and wanted to commit suicide on saturday, the day after. that could be, but honestly, i m not prepared here at this time to say what happened. we don t know. i want to get back to develin on that question because the reason i suggest it was likely that there was this kind of development to come, is that after the last release of information is when he attempted it the last time. right, and look, it is not out of, you know, the realm of possibility frankly that someone facing a virtual death sentence for heinous alleged crimes would decide they would rather just end their life than serve that sentence, than face that additional public humiliation and condemnation. so i think there s a universe in which we can understand his rational. the main question is what do the video tapes inside mcc show. do they support this belief by
great reporting, develin barrett and ariana burg, thank you so much for your expertise and reporting. now shannon petty, and joel payne, strategist. is the president of the united states re-tweeting nonsense about bill clinton being involved. i mean, off the wall, why does our president do this? they want conspiracy buffs of the hard right who love this stuff. saturday from his bedminster summer retreat, that was one of the things he was doing. i mean, it does insert him into a story that s the main news story of the day that doesn t have to do with him, so it helps bring the element, even though it does have a little bit to do with him because he was an associate of jeffrey epstein. there s no evidence that he was involved in wrong doing. it s interesting to see the white house reaction that they
judiciary committee belongs to a bipartisan investigation in the circumstance of epstein s death and demanded answers by the bureau of prisons. washington post reporter, andrea berg a former federal prosecutor with the southern district of new york. thank you so much. let me go to mr. develin. what do you make of this whole case? what is your suspicions about why there was no cell mate assigned there? why they weren t checking on him every 30 minutes, what s the whole deal here about a guy who had tried to commit suicide, apparently a couple of weeks ago, why was he not being watched. a couple of things, one we re told, as far as taking him off suicide watch, that was something he and his lawyers requested, he didn t want to be on suicide watch. that s frankly not unusual for prisoners because suicide watch is not a pleasant experience. you literally have someone watching you all the time. that s why he came off the suicide watch. that s going to be investigated