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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. General under president clinton and former federal prosecutor. Julia, i will have you play a few roles for me tonight because you do also cover the Justice Department. Jeff sessions in the room with the president when he is told that Robert Mueller is going to be Special Counsel, according to bloomberg news. Jeff sessions offered his Rec Resignation in that moment. I think the idea that Robert Mueller h...

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Jeopardy for the president. Were learning more about the trumpmueller relationship. The day after he interviewed Robert Mueller to be the director of the fbi, trump was in an Oval Office Meeting when an aid announced that mueller had been appointed the Special Counsel to investigate the Trump Campaign. Trump and Attorney General jeff session, who attended both meetings were blind sided according to a pe...

Power. and joining me now is jennifer rue bin, opinion writer for the washington post, triffany scott and a former federal prosecutor. thank you all for being here. i want to play for you what lindsey graham who used to be seen as this other fictional wing of the republican party when he was friends with john mccain. now this is what he said about the allegations against brett kavanaugh that are interesting, and i just want you guys response. here it is. >> i think he was treated well. i think t...

But i got along great with putin. >> as i have said consistently, russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage and malign influence operations to this day. >> now, were being hindered by the russian hoax. it is a hoax. >> we acknowledge the threat is real. it is continuing and were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. >> it is almost has if there are two administrations. one led by grown ups. the other l...

Two administrations. one led by grown ups. the other led by a man who wants to be best buds with our attacker or as jennifer rue bin writes. no matter how hard they sidestep or try to put words in donald trumps mouth, trump never fails to embarrass them. he never accepted he got russian help and he is not about to make a personal all-out push to stop it in 2018. there are only 95 dayselections. can they work together to ensure fair elections without the help of the commander in chief, without th...

>> and joining our panel now, mother jones, david corn, author of russian roulette and jennifer rue bin. and david corn, lets go back to the russian meeting, the meeting we just heard of course was michael cohen and donald trump in what seemed like a routine discussion for them about how do we set up the next company to pay off the next woman whos silence needs to be purchased during the presidential campaign so she wont be out there saying she had a yearlong sexual relationship with candidate d...

All the stuff. because here you never know where that company. you never know with where hes going to be. so im all over that. i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing. >> what financing? >> no, no, no. >> and joining our panel now, mother jones, david corn, author of russian roulette and jennifer rue bin. and david corn, lets go back to the russian meeting, the meeting we just heard of course was michael cohen and donald trump in what seemed like a routine discussion for ...

Republican colleagues? >> i think there is some outrage, but i think there are two things happening. one, many of them are afraid that trump will run somebody from their right against them and they will lose their seats. the others think that this thing will just blow over and is not such a big deal. but i told them over and over again that this is a fight for the soul of our democracy. and, so, i even told jason. i said the question is going to become when all of this is over, what kind of coun...