And that does it for me. You have a great sunday. Up next, the gura train keeps on moving with david gura. Richard, thank you very much. Im david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. Another tweet storm. President trump taking to twitter it attack Robert Muellers investigation, but one of his tweets may have created a legal nightmare for him and for his oldest son donald trump jr. Thats not the only cause for panic. The president in an allout effort to save a congressional seat, republicans have held on to for more than 30 years. To continue our incredible success we must elect more republicans and we must elect troy balderson. We have to elect troy. And high hope from a White House Communications director. Hope hicks spotted on Board Air Force one this weekend. Could she be plotting a return to Donald Trumps administration . But lets begin with that meeting at trump tower. That meeting donald trump jr. Agreed to hoping he would get dirt on Hillary Clinton. That meeting the trumps a
he will be the flaft string of current and former foreign service officers who are defying the trump administration orders not to comply. so we expect him to trudge up here to capitol hill and tell these house investigators what he knows. we should also mention that he s also represented by the same lawyer who represented michael mckinley. he s the former right-hand man to secretary of state mike pompeo, who resigned i guess a week or two ago now over complaints within the state department about the pressure that was being put on career officials. so the story now that is being sort of echoed and supported by one diplomat after another, it s all of them telling the same chapter of the same story about how career diplomats were really sidelined by this pressure campaign that president trump s outside attorney rudy giuliani ran and a lot of them raised flags about it and the ones that did were the targets of a smear campaign by rudy giuliani and his associates. and so house investigators
not have sexual relations with miss lewinsky. i m staying on my former statement of that. do you have any other recollection of sending these specific letters to congress? it s a case of memory. i don t recall whether i did or not. it depends what the meaning of the word is. i assure you that there was never at any time, any agreement whatsoever concerning a pardon to mr. nixon if he were to resign and i were to become president. david ignatius is an associate editor at the washington post for which he writes a column on foreign affairs. w i want to start with this debate or maybe a parlor game is a better way of characterizing it, whether or not robert mueller and his team needs president trump to sit down for the interview. bob mueller s team continues the
extraordinary. we went into the weekend thinking the top item for rudy giuliani and jay sekulow was how they would respond to the request for interview. this has up ended their agenda. thank you. and here with more on what that means for the president and for his son donald trump jr. is glen kirschner, a number toer federal prosecutor. we have john lamear with us, he covers the white house for t th associated press . the president is on his 11-day working vacation. glen, let me start with you and what s at stake here looking at that tweet, reiterating what we heard from geoff bennett. there are three things at play here. the contradictions from the first statement handed out by representatives of don jr. and jared kushner. then you have this line at the end of today s tweet, i did not know about it. the president trying to distance himself here from what happened in trump tower back in 2016. and finally that third issue,
democrat. if congress is not willing to put reforms in place, our democracy will be hit again. another tweet. there were a half dozen from the president today. in another one he singled out mueller and the 17 angry democrats. his words. and he said this is the most one-sided witch hunt in the history of our country. some folks in eastern massachusetts might quibble with the president s characterization there. i want to ask you about how this is being waged in the court of public opinion. in sort of a perverse way, the president s attorneys are playing the role of prosecutors in the court of public opinion. they are trying to cast doubt on robert mueller s investigation as it continues. what s your reaction to the efficacy of that? how well they have been able to get americans to doubt what bob mueller and his team are doing. well, in the court of public opinion this really comes down to does the public believe bob mueller and his investigation or does the public believe donald trum