Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. What the president and his attorneys are up to, devlin barrett. They really moved quickly to get out there, the notion that there is no directive or order behind this tweet. No other set of instructions going to the justice department. And while they say, you know, this is just his opinion, the truth is that the president does sometimes announce or carry out Executive Decisions via tweet. You can ask rex tillerson, the former secretary of state about that who was essentially fired by a tweet. This is an amazing day. I think there were incredible things that happened today. But how it all plays out and what the ultimate consequences of these things is still playing
on it great point. Thanks for your time. Here to help me joyce vance. We already know that the mueller team was looking at pronouncements by the president by tweets. An interesting debates about the status of those legally. What do you make of what he said today . Today look loose i ca
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Of these things is still playing out. One of the things that has happened is we have seen an escalation against mueller. This was crossing a line he has not crossed before. This is the closest he has come to a direct order to stop an investigation into himself and the campaign. And not only that, he is doing it as an fbi agent is on the stand testifying. It is still amazing and i dont think we should lose track of either of those things, they are both remarkable and both frankly what we have seen before. It has been hard. And we are looking through the Mueller Investigation through a straw and we get the king of unreliable narrators. What do we know in terms of the back and forth. A lot of today was about
gam gamesmanship. They dont want to say absolutely not we will not do an interview. So this is part of the gamesmanship. Mueller is saying, okay, we will take some of the questions off the table. Would you please sit down with us. And frankly i
justify the president tweet. it is not an exercise of his first amendment rights. not a statement of his opinions, it is a direction to his attorney general. thank you for joining me. thanks for having me. democratic congress member of the house intelligence committee joins me now. i want to play something about what senator blumenthal had to say about this today. these tweets adding to each other amount to evidence of criminal intent. there is now right now, a clearly credible case of obstruction of justice against the president of the united states. do you agree? yes. i think it is a pattern of behavior. rarely in these prosecutions do you have one big bombshell act. especially post enron where we beefed up the laws allowing for this sort of prosecution.
history would have a press secretary who engages in this sort of word salad trying to justify the president tweet. it is not an exercise of his first amendment rights. not a statement of his opinions, it is a direction to his attorney general. thank you for joining me. thanks for having me. democratic congress member of the house intelligence committee joins me now. i want to play something about what senator blumenthal had to say about this today. these tweets adding to each other amount to evidence of criminal intent. there is now right now, a clearly credible case of obstruction of justice against the president of the united states. do you agree? yes. i think it is a pattern of behavior. rarely in these prosecutions do you have one big bombshell act. especially post enron where we beefed up the laws allowing for this sort of prosecution. they understood it was going to