Unpredictable. Cindy hydesmith apologizes in part for joking about public hangings but will it be enough to stop the damage to her campaign . I dont know whats in your heart but we all know what came out of your mouth. My comments were taken and twisted and used as a political weapon against me. We begin this morning with two big headlines out of washington. They are significant as we focus on them. One concerning the president calling for a special counsel and the other concerning President Trump cooperating with one. The New York Times out with that eye popping headline. Wanted to department to prosecute comey and clinton. Something don mcgahn told the president he had no authority to do. Mr. Mcgahn had white house lawyers write a memo for mr. Trump warning if he asked Law Enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of problems including impeachment. If i win, im going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. Its just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Because youd be in jail. Comey is leaker and hes a liar. Not only on this stuff, hes been leaking for years. He is guilty of crimes. If i win, i am going to ask my attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to look into her crimes. Special prosecutor. Here we come. That brings us to another bit of news. The president and his legal team have submitted legal answers to questions from Robert Mueller but only ones related to russian interference, prepresidency. Joining me is chuck rosenburg, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor. One of the times reporters who broke that story, Michael Schimdt and anna palmer. We have got a lot to do right here. Were glad that on the eve of this holiday we have you guys with us. Let me start with you about your reporting as it relates to this not so much a threat but a desire for the president to order the prosecutions of these two. We heard what he threatened in the past. Why is this different and this one so startling and alarming to many . He was having the discussion in private with his white House Counsel. I think some people make it theres a difference between being on the campaign trail and saying things for red meat for his base. No doubt. He was acting. In another way behind closed doors talking to the person who is spoked to be the liaison. The president had this conversation while he was under investigation for obstructing justice. Clearly not deterred at all by that to walk up to the line, if not over it. Youre right its unclear if he read the memo that was presented to him. Its not clear if he reads a lot of what the would you say counsels office produces for him. No doubt. Hes backed away from that. This one raised alarm bells among his staffers. What are you hearing from them . What they were concerned about is if he were to he cant force the Justice Department to prosecute anyone. He can ask them to investigate different matters. If he were to do that, it would really blow back him on him because it could be seen as politically interfering with criminal investigations. Something that white house postnixon have tried to avoid. If charges were brought for them, judges may be able to throw them out and if Congress Found out about this, they could target him. They could investigate him. They could even try to impeach him and ultimately the memo said they could the public could vote him out of office. This is what he said earlier today. If the president asked me to convey that order to the attorney general, i would have had a very candid conversation with the president as to why that would be inappropriate. Are you scared this president sees it the way he does . My sense is this president says things that reflects frustration and maybe a bit of desperation, but nothing really comes of it. Is that a sufficient explanation that maybe hes frustrated or reflects some desperation but nothing becomes of it . At the end of the day this is question of intent. Not a sufficient explanation. Words matter and words from the president of the United States matter more than anyone elses words. By the way, mr. Gonzalez is right, at least in the following regard. He served as attorney general and white House Counsel and he knows how improper it is for that type of direction to go from the president to his Justice Department. Its fine for president s to set policy. Its fine for the president to ask the department to carry out a certain initiative, safe streets, for instance. Its not fine, its not nearly okay for the president to direct the prosecution of a particular individual. Mike is precisely right. We heard from Matt Whittaker, the acting attorney general, someone the president praised just yesterday. The question is since whittaker said he would have indicted Hillary Clinton, are the guardrails effectively gone now. Don mcgahn is gone. You have a trump loyalist serving as the top Law Enforcement in the land. The guard rails are always under threat. The rule of law is a construct. Its not an absolute. Its not like the law of gravity. If the people who are tending to the rule of law, people who are tending to the guardrails dont take it seriously, its always under threat. I wouldnt over index on what mr. Whittaker may have said when hef he was a television analyst. While i think we know what were talking about, we dont have all the facts. What he says as attorney general matters mump moch more. If he can put aside the views he formed as a pundit or as an analyst and do the job he took the oath to do, maybe the guardrails hold. We got to wait and see. Michael, let me ask you about Robert Mueller. Yesterday marked a major milestone. The president about 18 months of complaining about it, turned over the written responses. They are prepresidency. They dont deal with obstruction of justice. We have new reporting out. Rudy giuliani said if they try to go further, were just not going to cooperate. This is as far as were willing to go. Thats the real question is the other part of the Mueller Investigation, whether the president obstructed justice. The president s lawyers have taken position he does not have to answer those questions. Mueller is looking into those matters and has needs to know or his investigators want to know whether the president had criminal intent when he took these different measures. Was he trying to obstruct the russia investigation when he fired jim comey or asked him to end the investigation. If youre doing that type of investigation, trying to figure out what were the president s intentions, you probably want to request question the president about that. Mueller says i need to ask you these questions. Theyre going to say no and there could be a subpoena fight if mueller were able to get a subpoe subpoena. Remember, under the remember construct with Jeff Sessions as the attorney general, Rod Rosenstein had the final say in whether to sign off or not. Now if Matt Whittaker does not recuse himself, Matt Whittaker will have that final say. If joyoure adam schiff, wha are you thinking . I think youre sending letters. You want to preserve documents. Youre going to want to investigate this. Clearly an overreach from the white house, from the trump administration. Theres a lot of people who say trump doesnt know how washington works. This is clearly beyond the bounds. This is a very good example of why President Trump should be taken literally and seriously. A lot of his critics says he says things he doesnt mean them. He has these instincts, some of them border on authoritarian. In this case the institutions seem to have hemmed him in. Theres a pattern here where he is upset with people when they are part of institutions that are designed to be independent. Jeff sessions was a good example of that. Chuck, what should we be watching Robert Mueller to do next. You get a sense when they talk to the big fish, the president that this thing may be winding down. What does he do next . What should we be looking for . I think theres some more indictments to come. A couple of folks like roger stock market and jerome corsi are running around telling people they will be indicted. Thats a strange thing to walk up and start telling people. What bob mueller does ultimately is write a report. I imagine it will be as compelling as the indictments that his team has been filing in open court. I would be broke if i bet on what bob mueller would do next. Like you im anxious to see it. We didnt get to is the president expressed disappointment with his fbi appointment, christopher wre yerwrey. Upset with the fbi not moving more quickly and aggressively to investigate Hillary Clinton. Have a Great Holiday. Chuck, thank you very much. Also this morning, President Trump is saying thank you to saudi arabia for quote, oil prices getting lower saying its quote like a big tax cut for america and the world. Our friend over at cnbc, he says not so fast. The price drop is actually the result of more Global Supply driven by american oil producers. All of this following the president s decision not to pun you shall saudi arabia for the brutal murder of jamal ka shhasi saying the alliance is too important. I have no business with saudi arabia. Couldnt careless. Top republicans in congress are pushing back on all of it. Here is what i believe, saudi arabia needs us more than we need them. Its not too much to ask an ally not to butcher a guy in a consulate. We have a crown prince that i believe directed the killing of a journalist. I just, the language that was used. It was as if they were writing a press release for the saudi arabia, not for the United States. My colleague at the white house, kelly o donell traveling with the president in west palm beach. This is on the president s mind. We know he will try to hit a couple of golf balls. He is still keeping the focus on saudi arabia. Reporter thats right. The president is at his golf club now enjoying some of his holiday. He has been trying to give people who are especially his supporters reasons to understand his way of thinking when it comes to this because it is unusual you have such a bipartisan push back. The senators who are republicans, you played clips there. Ill add one more and say that rand paul sthays this is a saud arabia first policy, not an american first policy was well as democrats critical of the administrations position. The administration has sanctioned 17 individuals linked to the killing including so called hit squad. His position on the crown prince has been a head turner for many people with an assessment from the cia that points to the crown prince ordering or directing this killing. The president saying maybe he did, maybe he didnt. The president has a history of a relationship of saudi arabia. So do other past president s. The president in this context has really made it personal. He chose to visit saudi arabia first in 2017. The first foreign country he visited while in office. Hes been talking about saudi arabia for a long time. We went back to the video vault and put together some clips from 2015 which shows you how the president thinks about saudi arabia. Saudi arabia, i get along great with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend 40 million, 50 million. I like them very much. I love the saudis. Many of them are in this building. Theyre very nice. I make a lot of money with them. They buy all sorts of my stuff. All kinds of toys from trumps. May pay me millions and hundreds of millions. Reporter he boasted about so called trump toys in 2015. Now as president , of course, he has sort of distanced himself from his business although hes not done what other president s have done which would be to have a blind trust or to disinvest from his companies. Now the president says no business with saudi arabia. Its mixed signals from the administration and from the president who has not wanted to offend the royal family while at the same time there are many in congress and there are some steps that congress could take to try to bring about additional sanctions to try to respond in perhaps a louder voice in o outrage over the death of Jamal Khashoggi which the president said its terrible and shouldnt have happened but the president is not going further. Enjoy hour holiday. Reporter were missing you. Well see you next time. The committee that investigated Hillary Clintons email wants more information but this time they want it on ivank trump. Trey gowdy says hes planning an investigation and hes not the only republican alerting the white house. What the lawmakers want and the chances they will get it is flexion. Nflexion. Eflexion. Flexion. Tfle. N. N. R parts of her body. 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Click, call or visit a store today. Its no longer just House Democrats demanding information on ivanka trumps use of personal email account to conduct government business last year. The Top Republican on the House Oversight committee sent a letter to the white house requesting a full accounting of exactly how many emails mrs. Trump sent and received and on what subjects. The letter warns her emails may implicate the president ial records act and other security and recordkeeping requirements. The white house has two weeks to provide the material to meet a december 5th deadline. President trump is defending his daughter responding to my question on the south lawn before departing the white house tuesday. Insisting this is different from Hillary Clintons use of a personal email account during her time as secretary of state. Early on and for a little period of time ivanka did some emails. They werent classified like Hillary Clinton. I looked at it very briefly today and the president ial records, theyre all in president ial records. Theres no hiding. There was no deleting like Hillary Clinton did. There was no service in the basement like Hillary Clinton had. You talking about a whole different you talking about all fake news. Were joined by andy card, former white house chief of staff under george w. Bush and msnbc political analyst. Andy, i want to get to you off the top. This was the back and forth we had with the president where he acknowledged she did write emails from her personal account but then later he said it was fake news. No one accused her of using classified information. That information remains unclear. We dont know the answers to that right now. What do you make of the president s defense . First of all, i think she should comply with the law and be transparent in dealing with congress. She should make sure that privileged communication that helps the president do his job, article 1 is congress. Article 2 is the president. The president has the right to have privileged information but she should be transparent with congress and cooperate with congressman trey gowdys investigation, respond to it. Make sure lawyers look at it to make sure theres no privileged communication and obviously nothing classified. I think she should just get it done. I have a feeling she thought she was doing something okay but she wasnt. I bet also if her communication went to to be clear, how could she do something that was okay when she stood by her father through the course of the 2016 campaign when he repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton for using private email. She even acknowledges in some of the emails that we have seen publicly, we should be using a different email. Youre exactly right. I understand that. It was a stupid thing to do. I hope she knows it was stupid. It was i dont thi it was wrong to do. Come clean. Do everything right. Make sure the president s ability to do his job hasnt b