Obamas fight on the campaign. And Sarah Huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the First Time Since monday. The president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. And he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year. They have found no evidence of collusion, and still strongly believe that it is a witchhunt. So this you have trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani marking this anniversary with yet another round of media tours, this time the blitz is centering on this question. Can special Counsel Robert Mueller actually indict a sitting president . Well, according to giuliani, muellers own team told him the answer is no. Lets start this hour at white house with msnbc hans nichols. There is a lot of Foreign Policy The Middle East news we will get to in a little bit about what the president had to say today. But here we go again. You have those major events, a north korea summit, china, all the things the president talked
about today. And yet hes tweeting, his lawyer,
from the legal side, the president s legal team, because the white house itself doesn t weigh in. several times today trying to get the white house to weigh in on this, sarah huckabee sanders simply would not take the bait and said look that has to do with the president s personal legal team. hans, we will get back to you in a minute. you have arguably the key player for president trump s defense other than the president himself, rudy giuliani back at it, both making the rounds and potentially making more trouble for his employer. because on multiple outlets not only did giuliani say last night and today that special counsel robert mueller s team says that he cannot indict him, but he had some other interesting positions about the russia probe. worth noting, the last time we had a giuliani media blitz he revealed that president trump reimbursed his attorney michael cohen for that $130,000
the question from everyone, including the president is where does this go next? will the president be stated? could he be? would he ultimately talk to robert mueller? if he doesn t will he face a grand jury subpoena. no surprise the president tweeted his disgust already today. also worth remembering so far 19 people and three russian companies have either been indicted or pled guilty to criminal charges, including four people who worked for team trump. the investigation has also helped reveal information we may never have known like that payment to stormy daniels and potentially other women as well. we heard about that today. what exactly happened at the trump tower meeting and just how deeply involved the russians were in wanting president trump in the white house. to talk more about all of it i m joined by jennifer ruben, who is also on msnbc contrbor and wrote recently about this. mimi rocha from the southern district of new york. and a legal analyst. we have new reporting at nbc
were so concerned this was going to leak. that s not evidence of anything other than how closely held and compartmentalized this investigation was. but if the goal was to try to harm donald trump, they had a million opportunities to along the way and chose the exact opposite. so you make an interesting point, matt, i will go back to stephanie on this. stephanie, does robert mueller seem like the kind of person to you who would set aside that 45, 50 years that this has been in place and say you know what, let s see, maybe we can indict a president? i would say not the point that richard blumenthal was making was that he could indict him now and then hold off on the actual trial. i agree with matt. i mean, director mueller has great respect for the institution of the presidency. he is going to be very respectful of that office. you know, if something comes to light in the course of the
that information for two weeks, that they feel as though the president will not be indicted by robert mueller because they want to follow what he described as these rules and this press did be and this culture at the department of justice. the issue is that rudy giuliani is way more someone who was hired to talk to the media. he was somebody who was meant to be put on the offense and he s somebody who is making the case and getting people ready for whether or not this report comes out. i think why rudy giuliani is out there talking about this is because once this report comes out there are two things that are going to happen. people are going to start saying what are republicans going to do? and rudy giuliani wants to say look it is a report, who cares? it is not a real thing. it s not a real indictment. that s why i think he is over there talking to everybody. liz holtzman on one hand you have rudy giuliani saying there can t be an indictment, there won t be an indictment. on the ot