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Investigation to begin with. joining me now is chuck rosenberg, also a former u.s. attorney and also an msnbc contributor and a host of the great podcast, the oath with chuck rosenberg. disamuse me if you will of the notion that the origin of this permission to indict, did that come from william barr? >> well, it would have come at least from the deputy attorney general who works directly for william barr. so i would imagine that the leadership of the department of justice gave the lead attorney...

The secretary of the hhs alex that, patrick, comes as they sazar says an entire generation wind in that special election of children is at risk to becoming addicted. last night in north carolina out front, dr. sanjay gupta and with trumps backing, it was the former fda commissioner dr. close, much closer than it david kessler. should have been, but it was a win. these are two big wins for the sanjay, you know, i guess heres where i start. president tonight. >> yeah. what exactly is the trump the...

Theres a flurry of stories in this post-labor day short time that weve been back about questions whether the air force made decisions that enriched donald trumps properties. new reporting about wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, essentially issuing an edict that no one should contradict trump on his erroneous forecast for alabama days after that was the direction of the storm. i just want to ask you more broadly about corruption. do you think that this sort of signals of corruption, which jim ...

Region. its also creating a diplomatic -- an international diplomatic dispute with the french president tweeting out yesterday, our house is burning. supgti i suggesting the amazon fires should be a topic at the g7 meeting. and brazils president bristled at that. he called this a colonial mind-set. but the fact he has been blaming ngos saying maybe theyre setting the fires just to make me look bad since ive taken away their funding. this has really brought this kind of international response. he...

Taxes, but its a separate thing altogether to say his press is derived from that. and so im glad he walked it back. i think it actually created a lot of anxiety amongst democrats who do see a free press as really critical in this moment when trump is attacking the press. so i saw him walking it back and i thought that was important. >> well, yeah. >> and i could have asked you about this first, my fault. >> no, no. as one of those "washington post" reporters, i can attest that we do not have som...

>> this is another example of trumps insecurities. we have a lot of work to do. >> on any given day. >> if trump has issued an edict that ambassador darroch who i know is in washington and his counterparts at the state department cant deal with him, were not going to have the same kind of conversations with the british that we need to be having right now on key national security issues. second, president trump is signaling that he wants to stack his diplomatic, just like hes done with his cabine...

John bolton is a legendary bureaucratic infielder and he can manipulate it to the certain extent because president trump might issue an edict or command but its not followed up but at the end of the day, president trump is the president. bolton is not getting the heavy hand that he wanted to shake power and the strategy when you have a leader who is fully unencumbered by any confines and will get on twitter and cross into north korea. >> jonathan lemire, not only were you watching this play out,...

And reince priebus build this narrative that suggests don mcgahn is telling the truth. >> let me just add to mcgahns credibility. mcgahn is complying with the white house edict that he not testify before congress, risking criminal contempt of congress if congress decides to head in that direction. >> right. and the other thing that seemed fishy to mcgahn and mueller points out, what was the urgency? if you notice, its between the 14th and the 17th of the month that this all goes down, and the pr...

Hes not telling the truth. >> let me add to mcgahns credibility. mcgahn is complying with the white house edict that he not testify before congress risking criminal con tempt of congress if congress decides to head in that direction. >> the other thing that seemed efficiency and mueller points out, what was the urgency, notice its before the 14th and the 17th of the month it goes down and the president wants it to happen on a saturday morning. so the idea that don mcghan fabricated this or is co...

Fairness concerns counselled against potentially reaching that judgment when no charges can be brought. the problem that i have is that neither robert dixon, the original author of the justice department olc policy nor robert mueller who took the policy one step further were acting pursuant to an express provision of the constitution or edict of the congress. both were singularly setting policy with no accountability to the people. the olc guideline is not a constitutional provision. its not a s...