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Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. justice that the president s lawyers have said publically and said it once again today that the president will not answer any questions about obstruction of justice and other issues that the special prosecutor robert mueller would like to question the president about. regular viewers of this hour know i for one believe president trump was never going to submit to any questions by my prosecutor under any circumstances, even back when the president said the chance of him doing that was 100%. so he said those things under oath. would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of this? 100%. i would be glad to tell him exactly what i just told you, jim. 100%. that was a year ago. and now the chances of the president submitting to an interview with robert mueller is almost officially publically zero percent. although the president s lawyers continue to play the public ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. on the other hand, you know, while that seems like a petty thing and an inargable thing, that might really get under the skin of the president when it comes to somebody who has become his most important ally on capitol hill. one of the things they did on that impeachment discussion is they lied to their contributors with this notion that it is senate procedure to immediately take up a bill of impeachment from the house of representatives and the senate can do no other business. the house of representatives sent over the impeachment of a federal judge in 1988 in august. the senate didn t take up the trial until 14 months later. and even then they did it part-time, a couple of hours a day here and there. it doesn t in any way clog up the senate on the confirmation of brett kavanaugh. so my reading of that was then just lying to their enthuiasts tonight. but we have had no respon ....