Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell.
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell.
mueller outlining their defenses of the president on obstruction of justice. the key element of their defense was that president trump did not know that his national security adviser michael flynn was being investigated by the fbi when the president talked to fbi director james comey about letting flynn go. james comey quotes the president as having told him, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he is a good guy. i hope you can let it go. the trump defense team has said that it is impossible for that conversation to constitute obstruction of justice because the president did not know that the fbi was then investigating michael flynn. but murray waas s reporting that the white house memo that he read is a timeline prepared by white house counsel don mcg
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell.
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell.
and we already know that robert mueller has found links and coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of donald trump. the meeting with russians at trump tower during the campaign shows there are links between the russian government and the campaign. we already know that when the russian government offered to coordinate with donald trump jr. to provide dirt on hillary clinton donald trump jr. said i love it. now, we have no idea what other links and coordination robert mueller has found between the russian government and the trump campaign. and we don t know whether any of those links and coordination constitute criminal conduct by anyone named trump. we ve watched donald trump on the campaign stage publicly try to link with the russian governme
Judge. but you know, there are benefits and negatives to a bench only trial. you have cut through the wheat and the chaff. you don t have to deal with the procedural issues of bringing a jury in and out. the person who decides what s relevant or admissible or even inappropriate as evidence is the judge, so he can t unring that bell in his head. it s a very interesting thing to try a case before a judge, a bench trial, and so your closing argument has to be tailored to that. you ve got to get right down to the bare bones. focus on your main bullet points. don t go in for the theatrics because you don t have a jury. so much of the closing argument is demonstrative, is the theatrics, expected to be shorter than it would be if is were a jury trial and expect kise to focus on their best witnesses, none of whom were named trump. he was a witness,lo with eric, and don jr. and ivanka. sure, but that wasn t the best part of their case.
Appointed the u.s. attorney who oversaw this investigation. that is something that you can t even get like speaker mccarthy, manu asked him, he wouldn t even acknowledge it. weiss was appointed by trump. doesn t that undermine the idea that this is the corrupt biden justice department with two tiers of justice, one for democrats, one for republicans? well, of course it does. i m reminded the trump campaign ads that talked about cities in peril or danger or any sort of police brutality related protests and beyond and the headline was this is biden s america when in fact it was another president who was actually in the oval office named trump. so this talking point ought not to carry much weight for the precise reason you indicated. this was somebody who was appointed with an eye towards this very notion, the idea of
Sanctioned it. so, there are law abiding citizens who want to preserve what makes this country so unique. law and order. freedom. liberty, what you talk about every week. and that is why this country needs a sweep in november. a republican president named trump in 2024. and bring back what is a so good about this country, people things that drive people here, but until that time, we, you have to keep telling the truth about the lies that are told on the left, i heard your program, you are right, let me be clear there is no difference between democratic party and left wing media. they are agents of the democratic party. antifa and black lives matter, agents