The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Its not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didnt follow a small regulation. This is a fundamental thing. The nominee at the closing days of the campaign, when he thought his campaign was on the line and a story or two stories potentially threatened his nomination went be and said, i have to make this story go away, according to Michael Cohen and said, go make this go away and pay for it. I think that goes not in a resistance way at all. A much more dramatic and more accurate way of stating what happened there. And, yes, it implicates the president in the commission of a felony, but it also implicates the president in what is now a growing sense that a lot of people have and not just resistance people, that this is one more way in which the 2016 election was facacta. Harry litman, were in dangerous territory here. Two nonlawyers
office when mueller was issuing the correction, he s talking about a decision he made in this investigation but that seemed to be a misconception the president had from watch thing hearing. kaitlan collins, appreciate it. more prospeerspective on presid trump and robert mueller, the looming robert mueller. joining us is garrett graph, inside mueller s fbi and cnn political analyst and white house correspondent maggie haberman. i want to read something you read on twitter about the president s reaction on the white house lawn. you wrote generally people express relief and joy by being cherry or saying nothing. trump often expresses delight by seeming angry. he was all wound up. i don t think i m not saying anything that was clear to everybody watching the press conference. he was incredibly combative and feeling triumph and i expect we ll see more of that in the coming days. look, his folks are feeling very
two or three times to reporters no, that was something he corrected. the president referencing what mueller said about trump being able to be indicted out of office when mueller was issuing the correction, he s talking about a decision he made in this investigation but that seemed to be a misconception the president had from watch thing hearing. kaitlan collins, appreciate it. more perspective on president trump and robert mueller, the looming robert mueller. joining us is garrett graph, inside mueller s fbi and cnn political analyst and white house correspondent maggie haberman. i want to read something you read on twitter about the president s reaction on the white house lawn. you wrote generally people express relief and joy by being cherry or saying nothing. trump often expresses delight by seeming angry. he was all wound up. i don t think i m not saying anything that was clear to everybody watching the press conference. he was incredibly combative and
strong republican at the top to defend against sort of any potential conflict or perceive conflict of interest but if he was not did not have the capacity to supervise that team like we all thought, then that s a big problem then it goes to andrew weisman. sm you know the president has tweeted out a million times about the all what is it like a dozen angry democrats on the mueller team. at some point in some of the congressmen yesterday were inquiring mueller about it doesn t political bias come into don t you ask somebody about it if you re going to hire somebody for such a politically sensitive job? well he should have i worked at doj and u.s. attorney office where their democrats republicans were all doing our job because justice shouldn t be political but when you re investigating one political candidate, using at your base the operation oppositional research defined by another candidate, you certainly need to find out whether you ve got political issues inside your own shop
to try to tease out more from mueller as to what mueller himself thought, whether he thought that the president may have crossed the line into criminal misconduct but was prohibited from saying so because of his doj restrictions. i suspect the democrats would be better advised to take the former roo former route, to get mueller to tell the stories about what he found in the report, and hope people will see this for the first time and start thinking about the report as a whole. you talk about building this narrative, getting inside mueller s head and what he was thinking. betsy, i want to play a portion of robert mueller s may 29th statement. take a listen to this. this a second volume the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation involving the president. and as set forth in the report, after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a