Qu quote, Deutsch Banks takes its legal obligations seriously. Heres an interview with the New York Times a couple of months ago, answering questions as to whether his businesses and finances were fair gain. If mueller was looking at your finances and your Family Finances unrelated to russia, is that a red line . I would say yes. Lets get to all of this with our reporters and guests, White House Bureau chief phil rucker, with me on set, National Security reporter ken delaney. And chuck rosenberg, a former u. S. Attorney who worked on the staff of Robert Mueller and James Comb Koecomey of the fbi. Let me start with those financial headlines. Theres a dispute about the facts, but would you surmise that Donald Trumps taxes are something that bob mueller either has or will seek to
which the president and james comey have very different accounts of what happened there. And finally to the Deutsch Bank Discussion that youre having. Jay sekulow is another one of the president s outside counsel
tasks. but we have not dealt with the trauma of the last four years and the corruption that we re only seeing the tip of the iceberg on. worse than that, we have a whole cohort of republicans that are continuing to undermine the good functioning of this government. unless we address these issues, unless president biden uses his bully pulpit to shine a light on these issues, i don t think we re well positioned for the next time this country is attacked. i have enormous faith in the american people. i have enormous faith in the public servants. i have enormous faith in the military. i know these institutions. but we ve suffered. we have an open wound. that wound can t start healing until we apply some sort of ointment, some sort of treatment to it. and we re not there yet. and it seems that if i could just extend your wound analogy, i mean fox news, which is the network where laura ingraham and john yoo and john dershowitz
technical defenses such as the one arctticulated by dershowitz and others. let s bring in democratic congressman harold ford, and john, how are we already getting into trouble. and brett stevens, new york times op-ed columnist and msnbc contributor, and former aid of the george w. bush white house. ty cobb knows that donald trump s legal team is going to be he s made himself a witness, he can t represent cobb will need to leave trump s legal team because he s made himself a potential part to dowd will have to leave trump s legal team because he has now made himself a party to this crime. the question of whether or not he wrote that tweet for trump is now a material fact in the
the people working for him. a lot of trump lawyers are concerned about it. they see a team of 16 to 17 killers who are out to get the president somehow send it s unclear what he might know. i worked with bob mueller when he was in the white house and i know a lot about what president bush thought about him in his job. he was the consummate professional. he had no patience, no tolera e tolerance, no appetite, no interest in the media circus. it was not a game he played. one of the people i talked to last night suggested that that put the trump team at a significant disadvantage because of the president s obsession with the immediamedia coverage and this investigation and of bob mueller. his team has spent two news cycles swallowed up by a debate about what john dershowitz said. could you talk about the strategic advantage that a man
welcome back to our special edition of the beat. we are here in the moot courtroom at john jay college. we re exploring some of the legal issues in the russia probe. we just heard a presentation of the case against the trump campaign of a federal prosecutor speaking to a jury we ve assembled of students. now we turn to the rebuttal of that case. that will be handled by john dershowitz and is the author of trumped up. professor dershowitz, you have four minutes. thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen of the jury, i ll sure you were convinced by the brilliant argument that russia tried to influence the american election. i was certainly convinced of that. the problem is that isn t a crime. maybe it should be.