and questioning about witness tampering and the type of things that are appropriate or not to say to a witness when there is an open inquiry. that s really an issue for the special counsel. to me that s the biggest headline and the rest of it does sound like pretty standard legal argumentation, which can be strong because you start to make everything a debate and everything is a reputed memo or it looks weak because it looks like petty fogging or parsimonious. some of it is normal lawyering. i would say a full six hours before we normally see him. chris hayes has joined us here in our studio. the hits just keep on coming. your reaction to what you ve witnessed thus far today. i thought it was interesting. to me the biggest problem that they face right now is the obstruction problem, right? did the president obstruct justice? it s fairly clear, while comey
for the worst but hoping for the best. it turns out this was a regular accident, apparently this guy had just committed a robbery. i am getting told by nypd sources that he was intoxicated and that police were trying to apprehend him and of course driving through times square at 20 miles per hour is what i am told as a very high speed to go through times square considering every single block there are masses of people walking through their crossways. this is right at the epicenter of times square. basically, everything a police sergeant in the city has been dispatched to this, i m told as rg units are being dispatched, special task force units as well but antiterrorism task force, the special ops unit here in new york city that is trained for any sort of mass casualty situation or any potential terrorism attack in near city has not been dispatched which tells me and the nypd tells me as well that they are treating this as a regular accident, but unfortunately did happen in the busiest
puts her feel richard? my thought on this, polls are polls. but you look at what s happening and it looks like a barometer of what this president is paid one politicians don t want to stand with you when you have a battle between the tuesday group, the charlie dent s of the world, the freedom caucus and they can t come together when you guys are the ruling party, that speaks to the fact that you don t have enough power to get your own members to do what you want them to do. the present ran against the republican establishment he s almost like an independent president that s what s making it hard to pull the two different wings of the party together. the problem is the media is making everything a problem with her to take them seriously on everything. everything goes to 11. martha: thank you very much, as we close in on the first big mile marker of a trump ministry should we take a look back to where we may go from here, mercedes schlapp, been following the ups and downs of the
donald trump to offer any of the starving babies in the world even a crumb off of his plate of the most beautiful chocolate cake they ve ever seen. they ve never seen chocolate cake. they never will. and donald trump will never see them. joining us now, general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander and katrina, editor and publisher of the nation magazine. gentlemen, he stood up straight at the meeting with the nato leader and said as far as i could tell, everything a president is supposed to say. i thought it was great that he said it. but i do have to say this, lawrence. when you change positions like this, and you re the president of the united states, and after wh was said during the campaign, the europeans, they don t really know what to think. but over the last several months what we have seen in europe is
the world tonight, but donald trump hasn t seen pictures of them. and so it hasn t occurred to donald trump to offer any of the starving babies in the world even a crumb off of his plate of the most beautiful chocolate cake they ve ever seen. they ve never seen chocolate cake. they never will. and donald trump will never see them. joining us now, general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander and katrina, vanden heuvel, editor and publisher the nation magazine. gentlemen, he stood up straight at the meeting with the nato leader and said as far as i could tell, everything a president is supposed to say. i thought it was great that he said it. but i do have to say this, lawrence. when you change positions like this, and you re the president of the united states, and after what was said during the