mike pompeo. in uvalde, texas, a new investigation that uncovered a local of majority officers never had active shooter training. more on that this hour. we begin this morning with new details on the investigations facing former president donald trump. we start in new york where during his deposition before the state attorney s general office, the former president took the fifth over 440 times as part of the state civil investigation into trump s business practices. in a lengthy statement, trump slammed the probe as politically motivated and said he had no choice but to plead the gift after the fbi searched his florida home as part of an unrelated investigation. also this morning, new details emerging about the fbi s efforts to obtain documents with classified information allegedly taken to mar-a-lago from the white house after donald trump left the white house last year. according to the wall street journal, prior to the search someone familiar with the stored papers
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. It happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. At the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the United States. And when a defendant is Pleading Guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to Say Something more important than the word guilty. Thats usually the most important word a defendant speaks during a guilty plea session. But today in Federal Court in manhattan Michael Cohen said guilty, your honor eight times and hes also said at the direction of twice. And both times he meant at the direction of the president of the United States. And so today donald trump made history by becoming the first president of the United States to be accused under oath in Federal Court of ordering someone to commit a federal crime to win a president ial election. At the direction of. Have to be illegally pu
Sentence in this case and you agree to cooperate. And i think from Robert Muellers perspective it would be worth it because even if Paul Manafort doesnt have anything incriminating i think Robert Muellers quest is to get to the truth and Paul Manafort certainly knows a lot of what happened. He was present at that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. He has all the connections with the russians and the ukrainians and so it seems that hes in a position to know a lot of what was happening with regard to any connections with russia. So i think we might see that. Barbara mcquade, former u. S. Attorney in michigan. Thank you, barb. Really good to have you here tonight. Thanks, rachel. What a day. That does it for us for right this second. See you again tomorrow. Now its time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And i was so struck by your interview with lanny davis which is making news in that last hour. Not only did he tell you that Michael Co
justice department indictment carefully drawn and explained by assistant attorney general in charge of national security, but also the people who have been criticizing the justice department the last 48 hours over the trumpgate, the boxes from mar-a-lago, are silent here and are realizing how careful both the fbi and the justice department have been in this case. i think the danger continues. i doubt there s only one person cited in this indictment who is responsible for this. again, carefully he was tracked and the information seems to me very solid that he offered an fbi informant $300,000. ongoing and something to watch as, perhaps, the nuclear agreement with iran comes back online, which has also been reported in the last couple of days. so, how do you think the u.s.
recently that ep sodic coverage of the news is not enough. i wonder if you could expand on what you mean. my colleague, long-time colleague, we met during the water gate hearings, michael winship, and i wrote the two columns on common dreams at billmoyers.com. our job is to slice and dice the events of the day as they occur or the day after, but you don t get the whole story there. if you want to get the whole story with the frame of the narrative of water gate, you needed to watch the whole hearings. if you want to get the whole story of trumpgate, you need to watch the whole hearing. not just the episodes that occur every day which you and others will handle in a professional way. but connecting the dots, telling the story, putting the whole picture up there. it s a puzzle. this is a complex puzzle. but it s also a momentous moment in america s life. only two presidents have ever been impeached.