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answer academy, recited a garbled version of the claim made by his ally. it s a shame what s happened with the fbi. but we re going to rebuild the fbi. it will be bigger and better than ever. but it is very sad when you look at those documents and how they ve done that is really, really disgraceful. and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. they ve found tremendous things on the other side. when you look at the hillary clinton investigation, it was you know, i ve been saying it for a long time. that was a rigged system, folks. all right. in isolation, it s actually hard to figure out what he s even saying. but it s not hard to figure out where the president picked up those talking points that he was fumbling around with. those talking points have been airing around the clock on trump tv. it s also hearing them directly from people like congressman matt gaetz, a republican on the house judiciary committee who took a ride on air force one with the preside ....
certainty and predictability. that s the best way to make business decisions. having the president make this controversial announcement, then indicate right away they may or may not be committed to it is not the kind of certainty corporate america is looking for. those are some of the broader impacts. what s the potential impact inside his own administration, and for his own press secretary who has to go out and defend a policy she s not sure is etched in stone? obviously she s in an impossible situation. i think what it does inside the white house, it s corrosive to any effort to put in place a process to make decisions. because people know that the decision making process is precarious at best, that there s never a final decision that s made and there s an opportunity to influence it at a variety of junctures or to go in and intervene with the president at the last minute. it means there s no coherent process in place and the result is you have decisions that are half-baked ....
disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the attorney general. but according to the white house, the president has been advised he, he can terminate robert mueller all by himself. . does he believe he has the power to fire special counsel robert mueller? certainly believes he has the power to do so. most legal experts believe he would have to order deputy attorney general rosenstein to fire mueller and corefuse. i know a number of individuals in the legal community and including at the department of justice said he has the power to do so but i don t have any further announcements. they told me, i ve asked. they said it s rosenstein oversees is the special counsel and only he has the power to fire the special counsel. again, we ve been advised that the president certainly has the power to make that decision. i can t go anything beyond that. we ve been advised the president certainly has the power to make the decision. to be clear, the warrants ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the day s top political news stories. whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether jeff sessions would beak be more of a trump campaign surrogate who happened to be attorney general rather than acting as an independent law enforcement officer. if sessions didn t recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trump s bidding. and trump apparently didn t know that making that statement would also as just a general matter of embarrassment, make him look weak and out of the loop about a decision that was already done. because there were reports that show the internal doj process had already resulted in sessions accepting that nonpartisan recusal recommendation from the career staff earlier that week and that jeff sessions was already working with doj officials op writing the very rationale they would soon release to the public. in fact, it was barely an hour after trump put that public press ....
The latest political developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. about it. something directly has him spooked. but it s caused him to make a tactical error, which is to come out and essentially throw his son and his son-in-law under the bus and say, yes, they were there to get dirt on hillary clinton. okay. joining jared and his son under the bus was jay sekulow, one of his last remaining tv lawyers other than rudy giuliani who may just have the tv part of that job. let s look at his statements now rendered as someone who has been on both sides of the question about what the president knew about the trump tower meeting. when you look at a meeting when you look at a meeting, george, that took place a year before, now two years ago, the question is what law, statute, rule or regulation has been violated. no one has pointed to one. they pointed to olympic zone spir si to dee frautd the united states. that would be one possible charge. aiding ....