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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. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Will decide if the president is likely to sit with Robert Mueller for an interview while at bedminster. But it might not be Donald Trumps decision to make, admitting that trump might be, quote, forced to testify on matters that occurred before he took office and that might mean real legal jeopardy for the presi...

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Clearly do not want him to sit down with the special counsel. you heard rudy giuliani talk about perjury traps coming to questions of obstruction of justice and also very telling that the real issue here is that the presidents legal team doesnt trust the client to tell the truth. >> what point does mueller issue a subpoena and how threatening, how much of a problem, laura, would that be for the president? >> the second mueller realizes any negotiations done in bad faith and a delay tactic and no...

Through decisions, policies on immigration and the like and he was going to hold on to it for as long as he can, but he did say this was going to be the thing to fracture the relationship. it has for some time. we saw the president attack jeff sessions just this week. >> harry, the president obviously doesnt like robert mueller. we have known that for some time. he tweets about him. he does bring up what he perceives as a bias, that he almost offered him the fbi job. he had a dispute over fees a...

Director job, that he had some sort of dispute over fees at one of his clubs. could either of those things be considered bias? >> so no. we already know theyre not considered because the doj gave him a clean bill of health. but it is interesting because it is the second mueller is appointed that sessions realizes, uh-oh. thats before all these make way charges of 13 angry democrats, et cetera. who is bob mueller in that second that you just have the revelation that hes been appointed? he is the ...

Meeting. this dragnet could ensnare donald trump junior and jared kushner. this matters because his lawyers were arguing they dropped the collusion probe on him and was going after unrelated activities that pre-date 2016. we have muellers answer to that whole attack tonight in two parts. first, his answer is a crime is a crime and theyre not backing down on pre-2016 crimes but second muellers new filing makes clear it was partly about probe and collusion. something thats sure to get donald trump...

>> trump bias when text messages are flying that theyre against the president. >> also strozyk was fired the second mueller found out. this idea to discredit mueller. i think its unfair. allen derschowitz he was on air, he was a fair and honest guy. i think thats true about mueller. is it true about everybody who works for him? i dont know. you judge these investigations. >> jonah goldberg, great to see you. white house appearing to back a gop push to release a controversial surveillance memo th...

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