Tickets available at the apollo theater, Saturday Night i find out more and get information about tickets at metal blog. Com. When everything, june 13th, i will be in houston, texas talking about my latest book called prequel Houston Texas june 13th, Tickets Available now. You can find out at maddow blog. Com. Very excited about both events. I would love to see a bird that will do for now but now it is time for the The Last Word with Lawrence Odonnell print rachel joy at the apollo Saturday Night. Tickets available, that will last about five minutes. I just cant be. Rachel, we have Dan Alexander join us in this hour to explain how donald trump the bond money that he needed tonight and who helped him out, how he did that. We will get into the gag order that the judge has issued tonight. It has amazing detail on order that he issued. It will be one of these test, you know, can donald trump live with this new version of the gag order . We will find out. Which each new one of these the jud
pro trump news channel last night to round about how the investigation is illegal and can t subpoena anyone. he also spent some time peddling a brand-new conspiracy theory. that hillary clinton spied on the trump white house. you may have heard something about this if you ever dipped your toe into the right-wing media ecosystem. donald trump himself has cut out no fewer than five increasingly irate statements about. it i m not gonna deconstruct this whole strange conspiracy for you right here, though i do recommend you had over two maddow blog.com for a great explanation or by our very own steve bennett i will say that to spy on the trump white house hillary clinton would ve needed a time machine. because all the supposed evidence being waged around by trump and giuliani and company, the stuff that happened before trump was president. those clintons and those times jeans. but i digress. no matter how new shiny objects
entirely on whether the special watergate prosecutor would get complete independence. nothing else to chew on really when it came to senator william saxbe as a nominee to be the next attorney general of the united states. with nothing else to chew on about him, his confirmation hearing centered basically entirely on whether or not he would let the watergate investigation proceed unimpeded. at the influential legal blog law fair today there s a great treatment how the confirmation hearings went for bill saxbe and elliot richardson before him. richardson and saxbe were confirmed in the midst of not only major presidential scandal, they were confirmed in the midst of an ongoing justice department investigation that was chasing the current president like his own tail was on fire. and so what is the precedent there? what could we learn from the way those two men were confirmed to ag? we ve posted a link to our own blog, maddow blog.com.
investigation proceed unimpeded. at the influential legal blog there s a great treatment how the confirmation hearings went for bill saxby and elliot richardson before him. richardson and saxby were confirmed in the midst of not only major presidential scandal, they were confirmed in the midst of an ongoing justice department investigation that was chasing the current president like his own tail was on fire. and so what is the precedent there? what could we learn from the way those two men were confirmed to ag? we ve posted a link to our own blog, maddow blog.com. la fair has posted the transcripts of the hearings so you can read them. you can see what the senators did in the early 70s in the midst of water gate to try to make sure the investigation would be protected from nixon, that the justice department would let the watergate investigation proceed unimpeded despite whatever pressure was
from them and thinks is going on. now that said, what does dow chemical think of this? we asked. we asked dow chemical. they did not answer our question about whether epa has reached out to them about these new processes. the company spokespeople did tell us that, quote, dow works closely with epa every day on matters that affect dow. yeah, we know. dow also told us as a company they support the epa decision not to ban their pesticide. well, blow me down. if we hear more from the epa about these memos, about this radical new process they apparently are putting in motion very fast without telling very many people about it, we will let you know. in the meantime, we re going to make these memos public now. we re going to post them at maddow blog.com. if you would like to get