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Iand this is mtp daily an it starts right now. Goo evening. Im chuck todd here in washington and welcome to mtp daily. Is there anything more trump than the agreement to meet with kim jongun. And how it made the president s top forn adviser like sidelined on a top matter of Foreign Policy or other advisers totally caught off guard as well. Is there anything more trump than this i alone can fix it tude the president has about something to complicated or the white house today seemingly started to ...

Possibility. There is a reason why god doesnt want us to go on vacation and i get it. The reason its worth doing Something Like this is because this isnt something is over and reflect on what is happened. We still dont know what mueller found. And now starts a whole new chapter of the trump era in american life. A whole new era of the scandal. A whole new era of in fact the mueller era in which we now see how its going to be determined, not only whether Congress Gets access to this information b...

I find the attorney generals letter is so fascinating because you really can analyze it paragraph by paragraph, almost word by word. Its just filled with possibility. Yes. And this is the reason it is worth for us both to have stopped doing what were doing and theres a reason god doesnt want us to go on sxrax were hearing those words, i get it, but the reason its worth doing Something Like this is this isnt somethings over and lets reflect on what just happened, we still dont know what mueller f...

I know, i heard on tv. I heard on tv tonight that you were actually in a River Fishing when you got the word got to get to work. I woke up in a boat thousands of miles southeast of miami, a couple airplanes get me to miami tonight just in time for this. And this is the night that we really have to be here. This i find the attorney generals letter is so fascinating, because you really can analyze it paragraph by paragraph almost word by word. Its filled with possibility. Yes, and this is the reas...

Fact, becoming a nutty news week and today has been sort of insane. But lets just jump right in. Theres a lot going on. I got to tell you also the next 24 hours are going to be even nuttier than today was so we also need to pace ourselves a little bit. But lets start with what the house has just done tonight. The house of representatives tonight has just voted to block the president s declaration of a National Emergency. Which is the way hes trying to go around congress to try to build a wall be...

Just a remarkable time to be working in the news business. It is an honor to be here. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. And it is an honor to be here, even though both of us planned not to be here tonight. I know i heard on tv tonight that you were actually in a River Fishing when you got the word that yes. Got to get to work. I woke up in a boat thousands of miles southeast of miami. A couple of airplanes get me to miami tonight...

About. Theres probably a lot of rank and file democrats going on what the heck, i want a shot, too. And theres no rule under subpoenas that they stop mattering after two lawyers. Theres also this kind of back room debate of okay, respect mueller but do you want to put pressure to get as you say more time. Yeah, look, if the hope is to get mueller to verbalize this report, i dont know how you do it in two hours when youre doing the pingpong with partisan pingpong where every time youre getting mo...

Whether bob mueller does testify to congress next wednesday which were being told is still the government guidance or later, we dont expect to see that kind of mueller. in fact, we reviewed his 60 some congressional appearances and found he was unwavering, at times strategically evasive. eknows what hes doing and he is quite careful under oath. now we turn to someone who has been on the mueller beat since before there was a mueller probe, david korn. youre a great expert to have for this preview...

Whether or not a sitting member of congress can be legally liable for violating the federal laws that protect against intimidating witnesses who are participating in law enforcement proceedings, including proceedings before congress. today in a federal appeals court in washington, d.c., the special counsels office had a major and long-awaited legal victory, a bunch of defendants and witnesses in the russia scandal so far have tried to challenge the appointment of special counsel robert mueller a...

It. clearly shes willing to give back money in order to exercise her free speech rights. that is the more benign view of it. and the other point to make here this is not the first rodeo for michael cohen and payoffs and there are other reporting of situations -- it is one of the jobs that michael cohen had for donald trump over the years and that is very interesting. >> and that is what i want to get to the panel on there. ken, ill let you go. thank you very much. and we bring back the panel. ca...