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Private. Something that would make any citizen without regard to party very concerned tonight. Allegedly abusing the power of office to try to shut down a probe into his own white house. Words that apply to nixon that undid his presidency and words that are advanced tonight. Lets get into the story. You may know if you watch this news program, we dont typically tweet Donald Trumps tweets as news stories because most of them are not news. Many of them are not factual, some of them are outright li...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Whether a person is too close to the subject of the probe, whether Jeff Sessions would beak be more of a Trump Campaign surrogate who happened to be Attorney General rather than acting as an independent Law Enforcement officer. If sessions didnt recuse after that statement, it would have made him look even more like he was doing trumps bidding. And trump apparently didnt know that making that statement would also as just a genera...

Report actually does i would perhaps want to address the question of whether, you know, he didnt come to a finding on obstruction, because he meant to leave that up to congress. I mean, that said, he is doing this at the Justice Department. I think if he does decide to draw those sort of, you know, lines of difference from barr, hes going to do it gently. Unless this is a very different Robert Mueller then everyone at the Justice Department is used to, then Michael Zeldin is used to, were not go...

Im eric thomas. For all of us. Here, thanks for inviting us into your homes tonight. Our next newscast sat tonight, from washington, Robert Mueller grilled on the hill. The high stakes showdown. After President Trump repeatedly said the Mueller Report exonerated him, Robert Mueller is asked, did you exonerate the president . How he answers. Also, can the president be charged with a crime when he leaves office . Tonight, the president now responding just a short time ago. Also tonight, the urgent...

Was here that might occur, but i think it also has an incredibly important educative function that it might serve. we might highlight the importance of the rule of law, importance of accountability, even for president or former president that no human being no politician. no powerful individual is above the law. and if that message comes across thats a great message to send to america and to the world. michael genevieves thank you so much. thank you, leila. meanwhile, officials claim to have new...

>> no doubt bidens lawyers know intent is key here when it comes to legal exposure. how much is a fact that his team offered to come in and do the search, that the team was proactive from the beginning, from what they have said, in terms of reaching out to doj, telling them about the findings -- actually archives initially, then later doj in early november. how much does that work in h bidens favor as investigators try to figure out intent here. >> i think you contrast the two investigations. wi...

Hutchison, a metropolitan police officer, who is in the motorcade, and for multiple sources. the committee will be calling witnesses, and conducting further depositions based on that material. i will also note this. the committee is reviewing testimony, regarding potential obstruction, on this issue, including testimony about advice given, not to tell the committee about this specific topic. >> the secret service, and other agencies, near the prospect of violence well in advance of the president...

For multiple sources. the committee will be calling witnesses, and conducting further investigative depositions based on that material. i will also note this. the committee is reviewing testimony, regarding potential obstruction, on this issue, including testimony about advice given, not to tell the committee about this specific topic. >> the secret service, and other agencies, knew of the prospect of violence well in advance of the presidents speech at the ellipse. despite the, certain white ho...

Further investigative depositions based on that material. i will also note this. the committee is reviewing testimony, regarding potential obstruction, on this issue, including testimony about advice given, not to tell the committee about this specific topic. >> the secret service, and other agencies, knew of the prospect of violence well in advance of the presidents speech at the ellipse. despite the, certain white house, some secret service witnesses, previously, testified that they had receiv...

Really scary. and we had reporting that the intelligence, the fbi is actioning off of that information, to try to assess what type of damage could have been caused by that. >> quickly, the fact that trumps legal team did not respond to allegations of potential obstruction, does that surprise you? >> sure. those are serious allegations. and the justice department implied that they were -- that trumps legal team was misleading the court. and they said that want of the attorneys lied. to fail to re...