This date in 1971 by a man named john dean, when john dean was working as white House Counsel to president Richard Nixon. The job don mcgahn has right now for donald trump john dean had that job for richard knox on. In that capacity, he wrote this confidential memorandum. Quote, this memorandum address the matter how we can maximize the fact of our incumbency dealing with persons known to be active in their opposition to our administration. Stated a bit more bluntly, how can we use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies. That is not me giving you a snark can i snarky modern paraphrase that appears more elegantly in this 47 year document. Thats literally what john dean wrote in this white house memo. How can we use the available machinery to screw our political enemies. Then, he has a proposal. After reviewing this matter with a number of persons possessed of expertise in this field really i have concluded we do not need an elaborate mechanism or game plan, rathe
He joins us tonight. Plus, she threatened to release more tapes and today omarosa did. Were going to play what she offers and see what it proves. And the president continues to try to distract from news he doesnt like by playing power games with security clearances. He Just Announced hes preparing to pull more. Whose and why . What do you say . Its a special night. Lets get after it. Too soon. We all know that. But it was always going to be too soon to lose Aretha Franklin. Pancreatic cancer took a National Treasure today. Take a listen. You make me feel like a natural woman freedom, Freedom Freedom, freedom what you want, baby i got it what you need, you know i got it all im asking every time you hear it, youve got to move. Aretha franklin died at home in detroit this morning at the age of 76. A voice from god. Whether you believe or not, you know her talent was unusually inspired. A range that expanded far beyond the music industry, but she was not an entertainer. She was a cultural
Manaforts fate. If the president s Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, is convicted, we should keep in mind that that would probably mean that this particular criminal case against manafort would keep going. Paul manafort of course would have the right to appeal if he is convicted. Also, and i think its now increasingly important to start keeping this in mind just as a National Matter the rule of law because of the nature of this case, because of hoff Paul Manafort is, because of who he was on the Trump Campaign, it is also possible that at any point in the process from here on out, the process from here on out, the president himself could decide to intervene in this case could decide he is going to issue Paul Manafort a pardon. If that happens, thats the only eventuality that might happen next in this case that could affect the next federal criminal trial against Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort. If hes pardoned by the president which could happen at any moment, all bets are off in
First, after his security clearance was revoked, john brennan made his strongest statements yet about Trump Campaign collusion with the russian government in a New York Times op ed piece. He wrote mr. Trumps claims of no collusion are in a word hogwash. The only questions is whether they took place, whether obstruction of justice occurred to cover up and how many members of Trump Incorporated attempted to defraud the government by laundering and concealing the movement of money into their pockets. A jury is about to deliberate bank and tax fraud charges against one of those people, Paul Manafort, mr. Trumps former Campaign Chairman and the former deputy chairman rick gates has pleaded to financial fraud and lying to investigators. John brennan revealed some of what he as cia director and then james comey discussed about russias attack on the election during the president ial campaign. In my many conversations with james comey in the summer of 2016 we talked about the potential for amer
Situation room at the white house. She now says she also recorded the president s daughter and soninlaw, who are both senior without advisers, without their consent, they were recorded. She said she was offered 15,000 a month after being fired from the white house on a contract that essentially required no work from her but it would include a nondisclosure nondisparagement agreement that would preclude her from talking about her time in the white house or her colleagues there. She also says the president is mentally unfit for the job. She says he is unaware of most of what happens in the white house now and she says she has heard recordings of him using the n word at a work setting at his former job on a tv show. Every once in awhile, i just have to step back, right . As i said, this registers as a fair to middling day for this administration. Because apparently our political si seismo seismog seismographs dont work anymore, so we just keep working, pretending this is just monday. Toda