is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
When you think about, it you know, when you talk to her people, her people will say, well, she s an independent first lady and we should be happy to have a first lady who s independent. the west wing and east wings are different and it seems different messages are coming out. especially, and i just want to tell you whauts whatt s on the tonight, the president called john dean a rat today. john dean is on the show and he s going to have a message for this president. i just want to tell you that. maybe she s independent, but i don t think the message is going across well. i think it s contradictory and i think she lost the moral high ground when she wore that jacket. that s the problem is it s a good message. but is it good in the context of who she s married to. so we just got this memo that was written by the man trump wants to be our next supreme court justice. he wrote questions to ask a president as part of an
Have secret service protection. a lot of people help us out. don t you think if i had a jacket on like that or you had a jacket on like that, someone would say to you, hey, chris, what do you mean by that jacket? what s going on with the back of your jacket? someone would say something. usually they re just telling me to put a shirt on. that part is true. when you think about it or talk to her people her people will say she s an independent first lady and we should be happy to have a first lady who s independent. the west wing and east wings are different and it seems different messages are coming out. especially and i want to tell you what s on the show tonight, the president called john dean a rat today. john dean is on the show and she s going to have a message for this president. i just want to tell you that. she s independent, but i don t think the message is going across well. i think it s contradictory and i