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protect trump from a special prosecutor. that s right. he blames him for two things number one, the president is a combatant. he likes people who fight. so he doesn t like that instead of fighting, sessions recused himself. but he believes initial step what set in motion the process that led to special counsel robert mueller who is causing tremendous headaches for the president and his family. his understanding of the role of the attorney generalship. can you square that what most people think an attorney general should be today? man or woman since at least janet reno, they re seen as the country s attorney general, not the president s personal lawyer. that s right. there have been people very close to them as the attorney general, like kennedy. or bobby kennedy. he would be the prime example but that s not what we think of. we don t think of the attorney general being the president s lawyer. we think of him being the lawyer for the country. in a way that s very impo ....
apparently he got the nickname of the commodore in his days as a kid running those ferry services in new york harbor. the other guys who worked the harbor alongside him called him commodore as a way of teasing him. and it stuck. and then that kid who they mocked as the commodore grew up to amass one of the largest fortunes in american history. the kind of fortune that leaves a mark. in 1917 right next to the then-brand new grand central station opposite vand built avenue, a huge new hotel went up with thousands of rooms. it was called the commodore hotel. it was named after correspond kneel i couldn t say, the commodore vand built. had a statute of him right out front. and that hotel was one of new york s big successful shmancy centrally located famous it was a big deal because the commodore hotel was a big landmark piece of new york real estate right next to grand central station. it also had this poetic storied connection to the great vanderbilt family. but it was a high-pro ....
watch their body language. in the press conference, which is the first time we assumed questions about don junior will come up. what, errol, are you expecting? i m expecting in addition to all the things we ll end up talking about, there will be interesting stuff around trade and tourism and all the normal things that go on when two nations of this kind are together. when the questions begin, though, i m very interested to hear what the french press is going to ask. we ve got this narrative and it s going to probably continue here for a long time where the president says all of american media is against him except for the conservative press. it s all fake news. we re making things up, getting paid more to say things damaging to him and so forth. the french press who are a pretty sharp bunch, they have nothing to do with any of that. they ll answer very straightforwa straightforward questions whabt what did you dorks when did you do it, what s going on with your son? are you ....
that they know bad things about him. good reason to keep really really really good files. you never no who will end up being president of the large western country. adam davidson, reporter for the new yorker. now time for last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening. good evening, rachel. boy am i glad i ve never done business in russia. doesn t that all sound obvious when you hear it that of course it would work that way. well and the fact the thing i have learned from adam davidson s reporting at the new yorker is you don t have to be perfect but you do have to look to see if you are really obviously doing dirty business with people who everybody knows are dirty. and it doesn t matter if that s okay in their country. it is not okay in the united states if you re an american company or american businessman doing that. just willful refusal to look and recognize dirt you are wallowing in, that s enough to get nailed in this country under our lawes. and it is absolu ....
recognizes that sound. well, that s correct, brian. if you remember defense secretary mattis was the first led the first marines on the ground shortly after 9/11. let s get with the breaking news, moments ago fox news has learned the taliban claimed responsibility for a massive rocket attack at kabul s international airport. 40 to 45 rockets and rocket propelled grenades landed near the passenger terminal just less than two hours after defense secretary jim mattis arrived with his entourage which included the press. now, i m told that mattis was in no danger. he had already left the area aboard helicopter and rocket attack was not near the location where he landed. but, still, brian, it s the same airport and certainly raises a lot of questions about security in afghanistan 16 years after the 9/11 attacks. now, mattis a day ago was traveling in india, which might have put the taliban on some kind of alert. it was not public that defense secretary mattis would be arriving in ka ....