Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. 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 game
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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. 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 didnt take up the trial until 14 months later. And even then they did it parttime, a couple of hours a day here and there. It doesnt 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
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Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Jonathan, were probably going to get swept in like three when we get divisional playoffs. So, i mean, but, listen, it was a fun summer. Mika, why dont we go to the news. In an interview last night President Trumps lawyer said special Counsel Robert Mueller will personally have a lot to answer for just hours after they rejected muellers reported latest offer to get a Sit Down Interview with the president. Trumps legal team said they have made the counteroffer listing their conditions for access to the president who is a subject in the wideranging investigation of russian interference in the 2016 election. Trumps attorneys also publicly voiced their desire for the probe to end. Within the next three weeks and suggested that mueller would be violating doj policies, if it does not end. Dont have an internal deadline. We are moving. I use the phrase, expedi
bidenomics. s president biden blamed on everything but what really caused it. he blamed it on the war with putin, he has blamed it on congress, he has blamed it on unemployment, he has blamed it on greedy businesswomen. as i ve said before, if he it wouldn t surprise me if president biden stood up tomorrow and said i ve discovered the origin of inflation. it originated in a bat. the truth of the matter is that what pushed us into inflation was the $1.9 trillion so-called covid bill that was really nothing but the green new deal and welfare that he passed in march of 2020, with no republican votes, and we told him come if you do this, you re going to cause most demand pull and cost push inflation and he did it anyway. now, congress can do its part. we need to stop spending money, and it doesn t matter whether we have to borrow the money or we even find the savings in the
terms of both coming in to the hospitals and administering all the help that these states need. that s what we re doing now. i m confident we re on the right track. thank you all. now, of course, the president s obviously juggling the pandemic, as well as this push for voting rights. as for the stacey abrams absence, it does not seem plausible that they simply mixed up their schedules on this event. it s too important to joe biden and stacey abrams for that. but it also doesn t matter whether she s there. the only possible plan for getting this through the senate is to get all a democrats to agree to sidestep the filibuster. the frustration of activists is understandable but joe biden doesn t have the power to force 50 democrats to do that. any individual democrat can hold it up. and so far, joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, among others, have been resistant to attempts to change the fill buster. until that changes this legislation is not going