Thank you for joining us tonight. The conspiracy of dunces. Thats the focus of tonights angle. You know its bad for the trump Hush Money Prosecution when the New York Times feels compelled to publish a piece calling out the cases weakness. Jed sugarman a Law Professor at Boston University called alvin braggs case an historic Mistake Writing their vegas allegation about a criminal scheme to corrupt the 201 president ial election has him more concerned than ever about their unprecedented use of state law and their persistent avoidance of specifying an election crime or about area of fraud. Thats all. Now, beyond that he rightly notes that it is legal for a candidate to pay a nondisclosure agreement. Pay for a nondisclosure agreement, hush money is unseemly but it is legal. All right. Bottom line here. As honest objective legal minds have concluded, the underlying conduct alleged, in figure, is a violation of federal Campaign Finance rules. But, one little problem with that. The fec looke
We know you love it, so get more of it, with applebees new bigger bolder grill combos. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live from washington every sunday from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight it turns out the most consequential thing released from james comey this week was probably not his book. Plus, Climate Change and the president s legal team. The outlook is cloudy for Michael Cohen. The Attorney General and Rod Rosenstein. And later, we are witnessing a genuine thaw in relations with north korea or are we witnessing the art of the deal as written by kim jongun . Bill richardson joins me live to
talk about the hermit kingdom. But first we start with two images. The first an actual photograph of four president s and their wives. The photograph was taken by paul morris at the funeral for barbara bush. In the center you can see george h. W. Bush, behind him his son george, his wife laura, his arm around the clintons. On the edge
this book? i think it s kind of a break even. we have to remember something. james comey was fired. they took away a man s career. a prosecutor that went all the way back to when he worked for rudy giuliani and before that. they took away his career. they also besmirched him publicly. he had a right to make his case. it couldn t be done in sound bites. i read his book. i disagree with some of the things he s done and said. did he make a mistake he thinks he made a mistake writing about the size of the president s hands and his hair and other things. i m sure the publisher had more to do with that than james comey did. he certainly did take us inside the room. i think the book is interesting. it does give justification of why he did a separate press conference from the justice department about reopening the investigation of hillary clinton s e-mails, which i profoundly disagree with. but he has a rationale for that
james comey was fired. they took away a man s career. a prosecutor that went all the way back to when he worked for rudy giuliani and before that. they took away his career. they also besmirched him publicly. he had a right to make his case. it couldn t be done in sound bites. i read his book. i disagree with some of the things he s done and said. did he make a mistake he thinks he made a mistake writing about the size of the president s hands and his hair and other things. i m sure the publisher had more to do with that than james comey did. he certainly did take us inside the room. i think the book is interesting. it does give justification of why he did a separate press conference from the justice department about reopening the investigation of hillary clinton s e-mails, which i profoundly disagree with. but he has a rationale for that and people can decide on their own. but i think on balance, he probab
business. journalists have an obligation to report the truth regardless of where it leads. even analysts and commentators bother to read the comments and be fair. jake tapper and cnn did note that the president was taken out of context earlier today. and the ap acknowledged that it had made an honest mistake writing, ap deleted a tweet from wednesday on the animals comment about immigrants because it wasn t made clear he was speaking after a comment about gang members. good for them. but even after those clarifications, msnbc could not help itself. president trump lashing out during an immigration round table at the white house. during the discussion with state and local leaders on california