Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Joining us now intelligence and National Security reporter for nbc news, politics editor at theroot. Com and former Chief Adviser or al gore and a former senior aid to president obama. When a trump tweet ends with National Disgrace, a tweet that includes a misspelling by the president , it reminds me of the days when misspelling was a National Disgrace when done by the Vice President of the United States, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. Here is the president and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news hes reading or being read to him in the New York Times. Lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. You could, yes. By the way he seems to be
responding to these things. I have to say i have been avoiding that word sin
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. What mr. Mcgahn had said, according to a person close to the president. Yesterday in what was for reasons we will get to later Rudy Giulianis most spectacularly ridiculous tv interview ever, giuliani actually admitted that the Trump Lawyers do not know everything don mcgahn told the Special Prosecutor. We have a good sense, obviously, of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out. How do you say that, good sense . Have you debriefed him . No, no. But mr. Dowd has a good sense of it. He talked to them at the time. The times reports that Rudy Giuliani refused to follow trumps orders on television yesterday. The article sent out of a scramble on saturday. The president sequestered at his private golf club and solicited opinions on the possible repercussions from the article. The president ordered
whether or not he tries to stop people from investigating him. that s part of the issue. he is confirming everything that they re trying to find out about him. i will say this very quickly about don mcgovernment s exhibit ahn. he has a long exextensive history. this guy knows how to stay out of trouble. and so he s definitely going to reveal whatever it is he needs to reveal to mueller because he has a career he wants to extend beyond what this presidency may be able to handle. the most important phrase that i have read in all of this reporting about the mcgahn interviews is the new york times describing that don mcgahn has given them the president s mindset, the mindset on the firing of james comey. yeah. and so that can change what rudy giuliani and the president are trying to set up as a he said/he said conflict, meaning james comey says the president
responding to these things. i have to say i have been avoiding that word since it became a book title. yeah. but it s a hard word to avoid. the dancing around has been very difficult given the president s actual behavior, yes. and this is a reflection of multiple things. one, again, 20-something years ago the president spelling something wrong in public and correcting a child was a week long news story. now we have a new controversy. if a scandal is happening, it might be a day that ends in y with this administration. you have a president who is constantly screaming and attacking an investigation as to whether or not he tries to stop people from investigating him. that s part of the issue. he is confirming everything that they re trying to find out about him. i will say this very quickly about don mcgovernment s exhibit ahn. he has a long exextensive history. this guy knows how to stay out of trouble.