democrats disagree. it definitely bolsters and provides evidence for obstruction of justice. clearly, the president s purpose or motive here was to have an effect on comey s testimony and i think that the intent was to intimidate or threaten him but to go to the merits, jim comey s testimony never changed. obstruction is part of the political debate. what special counsel mueller concludes about the president s conduct is the judgment that matters most. ti time puts the special counsel on the cover with the caption the lie detector. pretty partisan debate. we don t see the classified briefings. you see this partisan thing. what else did we learn this past week? among the nuggets is now that the president has an early
the lie detector. and back with our panel, rick and mike, i want to ask you about what you know about the status of bob mueller s investigation and his effort to recruit some of the top legal minds in the country. he has put together some of the dream team for someone who needs to prosecute the most sensitive and criminal and counterintelligence case in american history. he has on his team not only individuals who can go to substantive issues like money laundering, but the appellate issues, as to whether or not a president in the situation engaged in obstruction of justice. so i think he has the right team. there is reason for the president, his lawyers and his staff to be worried. a former law enforcement official flagged the hiring of i think mr. weitzman, who i believe prosecuted enron, he said that is significant not
second time magazine cover that is coming out in the next issue of time magazine. we ve just put it up on the screen there. there s robert mueller in a kind of statesmanlike pose with the headline, the lie detector on the cover of time magazine. the line on the front cover of the magazine suggesting that someone is not telling the truth and that, of course, robert mueller will be the person who figures that out. that s going to be, i would assume, the president s least favorite time cover maybe ever. well, there will be worse. the problem with president trump is we found out today that he had this clumsy attempt to bully james comey by lying about the tapes. that didn t work out for him, right? that backfired. now apparently he s absolutely committed to discrediting robert mueller despite his reputation. look, you know, there s two words that come to mind here. one is that he is obsessed with this. the second word is pathological, that he cannot stop himself from lying abou
they believe what he has to say. they believe a lot of things that aren t true. charlie sykes, donald trump considers time covers very important. he likes to lie about having been on more of them than anyone else but he s been on a lot. robert mueller has at least his second time magazine cover that is coming out in the next issue of time magazine. we ve just put it up on the screen there. there s robert mueller in a kind of statesmanlike pose with the headline, the lie detector on the cover of time magazine. the line on the front cover of the magazine suggesting that someone is not telling the truth and that, of course, robert mueller will be the person who figures that out. that s going to be, i would assume, the president s least favorite time cover maybe ever. well, there will be worse. the problem with president trump is we found out today that he