Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Joining us now intelligence and National Security reporter for nbc news, politics editor at theroot. Com and former Chief Adviser or al gore and a former senior aid to president obama. When a trump tweet ends with National Disgrace, a tweet that includes a misspelling by the president , it reminds me of the days when misspelling was a National Disgrace when done by the Vice President of the United States, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. Here is the president and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news hes reading or being read to him in the New York Times. Lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. You could, yes. By the way he seems to be
responding to these things. I have to say i have been avoiding that word sin
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. What mr. Mcgahn had said, according to a person close to the president. Yesterday in what was for reasons we will get to later Rudy Giulianis most spectacularly ridiculous tv interview ever, giuliani actually admitted that the Trump Lawyers do not know everything don mcgahn told the Special Prosecutor. We have a good sense, obviously, of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out. How do you say that, good sense . Have you debriefed him . No, no. But mr. Dowd has a good sense of it. He talked to them at the time. The times reports that Rudy Giuliani refused to follow trumps orders on television yesterday. The article sent out of a scramble on saturday. The president sequestered at his private golf club and solicited opinions on the possible repercussions from the article. The president ordered
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said something to him about flynn and the president denies he ever said that about flynn. well, what if, what if there is someone else in the white house who can actually confirm that the president did say something like what jim comey says the president said? yeah, lawrence. you re absolutely right. this is a key thing. the hardest part of proving the case is proving what the president did was with an intent to obstruct justice, to impede the investigation. and don mcgahn had a ring side seat for that intent and was involved in these various acts that trump did: firing comey, demanding that mueller be fired and actions taken against rosensterose rosenste rosenstein. if you take a step back, you have got a white house counsel now talking to prosecutors. you have got someone running around that taped the west wing. you have a president with an enemy s list. we are a few away from a re-make of the 1970s.
case is proving what the president did was with an intent to obstruct justice, to impede the investigation. and don mcgahn had a ring side seat for that intent and was involved in these various acts that trump did: firing comey, demanding that mueller be fired and actions taken against rosenstein. if you take a step back, you have got a white house counsel now talking to prosecutors. you have got someone running around that taped the west wing. you have a president with an enemy s list. we are a few away from a re-make of the 1970s. this looks like the nixon white house all over again. i want to go to something the president said in an interview with routers today. and the president arranged this interview. i think it is fair for us to consider that it might have been arranged in direct response to the new york times reporting