i mean them no disrespect. burke is a trained lawyer, he s used to cutting through the smarminess and failure to answer questions. lewandowski took a moment where he tried to plug his own book, sort of making a joke of one of burke s questions, and burke was all business, continuing to grill him on whether or not he had made a series of false statements regarding what in essence was the president s effort to obstruction justice. what this is all about is the president directing lewandowski, who was not a government employee, to go to sessions and tell sessions essentially to end the mueller investigation into trump, to limit it only to future investigations. so now burke is unpacking that systematically it will be, i think, riveting testimony to watch from start to finish he gets 30 minutes, unlike the members who only get five minutes apiece. yeah. we ll absolutely stay on it and really striking to see under oath someone to admit to their lying and then explain the reason is their d
he gets clearance from trump, calling all of this theatrics. gun violence is an epidemic in america it affects communities large and small. i ve met countless people who have lost loved ones who have been traumatized by gun violence millions of americans now live in fear that when they send their kids or grandkids off to school, when they go to a movie theater, a concert, church, even when they sit on their front porch they could be shot this is unacceptable we ll keep an eye on that busy senate action all night still to come, a first look at our sitdown with legendary singer annie lennox. this is from the mavericks series i ll show what she calls breaking boundaries in activism and music. also donald trump s justice department with new pressure on edward snowden our friend and colleague brian williams, one of the few american journalists to ever interview snowden, is rehe,
say it to the people, right? i believe so. that was a rare admission today. lewandowski s wrangling and evading in a hearing that continues was so thick there are even some independent experts suggesting today he may have failed to do the bare minimum of cooperating with the congressional probe, which means congress could technically hold him in contempt for that that s what one congressman was asking for and today chairman nadler reportedly is still considering all the options. so you take this together and here s what we have. the democrats held an obstruction of justice hearing to get facts about potential obstruction and the key trump witness looked more like he was covering up the facts than providing them that s bad by any measure. democrats say that itself looks like an element of the crime of obstruction. trump s allies, though, they stress lewandowski was never charged with anything during this long probe, let alone convicted, and that he did cooperate with mueller take it
and the problems and what lewandowski did and i covered that. right. what do you say to this point that he was wily and effective as a hostile witness i don t think he was wily and effective and i thought he wore down toward the end. several of the members got elements of the crime of conspiracy what people forget is that you don t have to succeed in a conspiracy we have trump asking him basically to kill the investigation by converting sessions to their side and he s told this but he doesn t stop there, he does overt acts he writes down what the president wants sessions to hear he makes an appointment with sessions sessions doesn t show up we don t know if there s any side conversations he puts the document in a safe and then he arranges for someone else to give it to sessions. then he has another meeting with trump. so there are all these overt acts in a conspiracy, if you don t withdraw, you re exposed it only takes two to tango in a conspiracy so you have trump and you have
previously known. what does that tell you about mueller s view into the trump campaign and very early days of the administration? it tells you that the mueller investigation into trump campaign and administration ties and communications with russia, core to this investigation, not side issues, not campaign payments to women, et cetera, not just that, but that its investigation into russia, what started all of this, continues. and crucially now, the president s former national security adviser, michael flynn, is cooperating on that issue of the investigation. spoke to the special counsel, we learned for 62 hours, provided thousands of documents, including on to communications with russia during the transition. not just during the campaign. because remember, michael flynn s conversations that he lied about with the russian ambassador, that took place in december 2016, after the election, talking about sanctions on russia. so that part of the investigation is open. keep in mind, michael