Reports and interviews that give viewers a look inside the corridors of power in Washington, D. C. All this is ken vogel of the New York Times and also the law firm of butler rocca and dershowitz, former federal prosecutor Georgetown Law 0 professor and legal analyst paul butler. Former assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york also an msnbc legal analyst mimi rocca, and Professor Emeritus at harvard law school, Alan Dershowitz. He is the author of the book the case against Impeaching Trump. Thanks to all of you for being with us on this sunday night. Ken vogel, i want to start with you just in terms of what weve been seeing out of the white house from this president today. What prompted this flurry of tweets . Well, clearly hes fairly under a lot of pressure. Michael cohen is coming out publicly and releasing the tape of the conversation regarding a payoff to a woman who alleged he had an affair with her, has seemed to set him off in a way we havent seen him reall
No question about it. Talk to your doctor about chantix. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live in washington from 7 00 to 9 00 eastern. Tonight the president lashes out against Robert Mueller claiming Conflicts Of Interest. Plus russia gate travels to the Worst Airport gate in america. Don junior and Robert Mueller treated to the lucid nightmare that is gate 35 x at Reagan National airport. At the same time the president s inner circle is fighting it out in federal court and the court of public opinion. Later well talk to senator Chris Van Hollen about matters
foreign and domestic. He floetsz new sanctions for months could you as tariffs start to turn politically toxic at home. But we begin with a series of tweets from the president late today including a Greatest Hits of grievances against special counsel Robert Mueller. Quote, is Robert Mueller ever going to release his Conflicts Of Interest with respect to president trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty and
justice investigation against the president. because he wrote the letter and becomes a major witness in the case. does he have a leg to stand on in calling for the special prosecutor to recuse in your view? it does not sound like a strong case to me, but it sounds like an credibly compelling case to ask to have rod rosenstein. i don t even see the argument on the other side. you cannot be both the major witness in an investigation and heading the investigation itself. i don t know why rod rosenstein hasn t recused himself. i don t know why strzok didn t recuse himself. you know, you make decisions on your own. you don t have to wait for anybody else to do it. strzok knew, notwithstanding the fact, yes, people see the case not through the lens of their own bias. but when you write messages saying, we have to stop this president. we need a guarantee, we need a life insurance policy. you do not continue to investigate that person. so i think self-recusal should have been the way to go
i don t know why strzok didn t recuse himself. you know, you make decisions on your own. you don t have to wait for anybody else to do it. strzok knew, notwithstanding the fact, yes, people see the case not through the lens of their own bias. but when you write messages saying, we have to stop this president. we need a guarantee, we need a life insurance policy. you do not continue to investigate that person. so i think self-recusal should have been the way to go for both strzok and rosenstein. but i think as far as mueller is concerned, i don t think it s a very strong case for recusal. paul butler, weigh in on this. is there? i m going to agree with my former criminal law professor alan dershowitz there are concerns about rod rosenstein. but his answer is he s checked. he s discussed those issues with the ethics office of the department of justice and they say there s no reason for him to recuse himself. with regard to mr. mueller, again, what the president says is that he s a go