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Government is no good. the prosecutors are no good. in this case, the police, the fbi are no good, does sort of go back to the o.j. case. because johnnie cochran, successful certainly with making the l.a. police the issue in the double murder case. he made the issue the police, were they racist or not, whether they manipulated evidence or not. and the jury went with that argument. this time it seems like trump in the court of public opinion is making the fbi the issue, the special counsel the is...

Government says. >> it has to be the court of public opinion. because the way this would play out in front of a jury if he were ever charged would be in a way that would give i think great credit to those witnesses who could be heard to be honest and truthful and who would have -- you know, be able to tell their full stories in court, along, frankly, with the presidents witnesses. and i dont have much doubt about how that would come out. so what the president hopes to do here is to write off peo...

Publicly attacked mccabe since last summer celebrated mccabes abrupt termination saying on twitter, andrew mccabe fired, a great day for the hardworking men and women of the fbi, a great day for democracy. sanctimonious james comey was his boss and made mccabe look like a choir boy. he knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the fbi. hmm. then on saturday morning, trump attorney john dowd seized on mccabes firing to call for an end to the special counsels probe. ...

An msnbc political analyst. and steve schmidt, republican strategist and msnbc contributor. lets for the lay of the land. it does seem that lindsey, by the way is clearly a guy who believes in the institution of the united states senate and he actually believes in the united states government. he believes in it. he is a true believer. he is like a senator from a thousand years ago. he is for real. so i can understand him being honest about this thing. what about the leadership? why dont they com...

E-mail investigation, for the current russia investigation and has been a frequent target of president trumps. the president even seized on the fact that mccabes wife was a democrat, ran for a state office in virginia. here is just one of the myriad tweets attacking mccabe from the president of the united states. let me just quote one. how can fbi deputy director andrew mccabe, the man in charge along with leakin james comey of the phony hillary clinton investigation be given $700,000 for wifes ...

So i think hes holding back on robert mueller, but hes attacking mccabe, which i think is intimidation of a witness in a criminal investigation. it may not itself be actionable as a crime in and of itself, but it is certainly a very bad thing for him to be doing and combined with other acts, could compound the case against him for obstruction of justice. >> so what do you think about that, jeffrey toobin? do you think robert mueller sees it that way, that hes basically intimidating a witness wit...

Travel from republicans from the capital to the white house for the bill signing you have this craving to not take on trump. i say craving because you didnt have to have that cheer leading episode. everyone by now knows how they would be used and positioned as a back drop for the president. its important i think to understand the two tracks that trump very effectively is able to be on in just a few tweets, attacking mccabe who puts him in jeopardy because of potential of obstruction of justice. ...

Knows if mueller or the congressional committees want to know what happened. so by publicly undermining the top law enforcement officials in the country, president trump is not only being hypocritical, which is not news, but hes also conflating as we just discussed, even a fact situation, where he wants to criticize the leadership of the fbi. >> not only criticizing the loo leadership, but hes criticized the russia investigation himself. you go back to the president nixon, calling the watergate ...

>> and we should note that mccabe b according to our sources, has long been plan ini to retire when he was eligible in march. that there is no indication hes being forced out r, but lynn, just this week, multiple sources from both parties tell cnn that the deputy director mccabe has kro corroborated testimony from james comey, where comey claimed trump asked for his loyalty. what are the optics of the president attacking mccabe in the wake of that testimony? >> not good, but they have not been g...

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