2020, this friday. so buckle, up the crowd source portion of this is getting ready for takeoff, and there s likely more turbulence ahead that does it for us tonight, we re gonna see you agai tomorrow now, it is time for the last word with jonathan capehart, i for lawrence hey jonathan haley was, yeah i guess we re gonna keep the conversation going about donal trump, at the top of our show, so thank you very much for tha handoff. 2020 tie, hasn t been a good year for donald trump. and 2023 isn t looking muc better if there s any doubt that is legal problems are getting t donald trump, consider this. what was on his mind o christmas day? not wishing everyone a happy holiday, with family and friends, but attacking the fbi and the justice department and a fantastic profile for ne york magazine, 11 itself say that donald trump, who i becoming more isolated he s embroiled in multiple state and federa investigations, including on concerning the theft o classified documents, and th
Martin luther king jr. s friend, john lewis, gets tonights last word. Up next, new reporting white house chief of staff john kelly warned epa director skon pruitt the scandals had to end. Thats on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams and that starts now. Tonight, the president may feel relief, but hes not off the hook in the Russia Investigation. As new questions emerge about him being a subject. And legal advice for donald trump is offered up this evening on fox news. Plus what happens when Robert Mueller delivers his report . Well ask a powerful member of the Senate Judiciary committee. And reality check. Donald trump on day 440. Learning that enacting policy as president is a lot harder than delivering an Applause Line on the stump. The 11th hour on a wednesday night begins now. Although he is a subject . There was no collusion between the president and russia, so nothing has changed. We know what we did and what we didnt do. So none of this comes as much of a surprise. The Washington
whether to bar those individuals identified in this report under section three o the 14th amendment from holdin future federal or state office in other words as vice chair liz cheney put it during the committee s final hearing quot donald trump is unfit for an office joining us now, glenn kershner former federal pop prosecutor, and paul, butler professor o law at georgetown university and former federal prosecutor, both our nbc legal analysts. glenn, what stands out for you in terms of what the justice department will be looking a in his report, and a new witness transcripts? you know, there was a sleeper criminal referral that i think we saw, when w ultimately learned what charge the j six committee was four fraying donald trump to th department of justice fo prosecution on you know, the insurrection, think many of us suspected h would be referred on, that the
i think he was trying to do what he thought was right. but he really started to conflate in his mind what makes the fbi look good and what is justice. as a result, one candidate was treated unfairly. the fetelings about hillary clinton and jim comey are mentioned in the book as well. here s a portion of what he had to say. hillary clinton wrote in a book i shfd her. that sound like i was trying to knife her. i was trying to save hillary clinton. i hope both will is read this and see a deeply flawed human surrounded by other flawed beings. he goes on to say he will think i m an idiot but hopefully she will think i m an honest
investigate? he is not supposed to. but he could, right? i suppose. but i m just saying he could. that s all. he could ask them to look into it. he can t milwaukee them bring an indictment. he could say i want you to look into this. they could say, thank you very much. we have looked into it. here s our conclusion. but it shouldn t happen that waugh. chris, the reason i m harping on this a little bit is we have seen of the course of the mueller investigation communications between the white house and the justice department which violate longstanding policies about communications with the justice department about future or ongoing investigations. so so i m really trying to push back to say don t do that. it s not good. it s not helpful. and it may be further evidence of an intent to interfere with the investigation. maggie, you were telling us that some of this in terms of