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The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, let s be clear and fair. anger, ego, incompetence, that s not enough. the higher bar here is corrupt intent in a person s mind. so mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. and tonight trump s lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, they re not accepting this full interview yet. so they re using two tactics. leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio call-in show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. we give you the unusual scene this morning. rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay seku ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. probe s next target. one of his close allies, the manhattan madam, testifying before a grand jury in the investigation today, while another one of stone s allies is being held in contempt of court today for refusing to comply with the judge s order to testify. which means he s choosing potential jail time over cooperating with robert mueller. here to help us understand all the day s developments, joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and law professor, frank figliuzzi. on set with us white house reporter from the the washington post ashley parker and mike schmidt from sniemz. the new york times. joyce, let me start with you and the machinations of this for a nonlawyer and someone outside this court, it seems like a bizarre, bizarre trial with a very interesting character as a judge. tell us what it means that they were on pause for so long, do we know what they were doing and what are the scenarios for what could have been going on. ....
The latest political developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. the 06-day period. this needs to be over with soon. i think it s been very bad for the country and we re at a point in this inquiry where they can wrap it up. mayor, i know you ve said and i said we want to see this come to closure soon here. mayor? yes, we do. it s about time that it ends. i also think and i hope the special counsel is sensitive it as we are. we do not want to run into the november elections. so you back up from that, this should be over with by september 1st. i think it needs to end very soon and it needs to end very soon because the nature of what s taking place here is irregular and that s being kind. from lock her up to wrap it up, that sounds like lawyer speak for we might be losing. the latest evolution of their messaging strategy from no dough lugs to collusion isn t really a crime to let s call the whole thing off, we see more signs today mueller is ....
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. elections? when we re picking who s going to be running the house and the senate? i think right track/wrong track is a very important indicator. that and there s often polling numbers of, does this guy or this person, this candidate fight for people like you? those are the type of polls i find a little more credible. astonishing to me is that it can be down at 35% when the economy on its surface and in its aggregate numbers is doing so well. i d ask an expert like john heilemann or somebody, have you ever seen right track being 35% when unemployment is below 4%? and since i think the economic numbers won t always be as good, this could really tumble down if there s if there starts to be any blips in the economy. especially from this continued china trade dispute, which could, you know, start bringing down the economy a little bit. so ....
i m chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle. right now, more news with hallie jacks jackson. love that one. chris jansing, thank you, my friend. hallie jackson in washington, where this morning, it is all about the power of the presidency. just how much control does donald trump really have, or really thinks he has, over our democracy? his new interview sending a shiver through the justice department. the president saying he could run the special counsel investigation if he wanted to. yes, the investigation into his campaign s interactions with moscow. we have new reporting on what don mcgahn told the special counsel and the journalist who was face-to-face with the president about all of this is here with us live. yes, the investigation, by the way, is still happening, while attacks keep coming. one of the biggest names in tech, the kremlin s latest target. we ll break down what this microsoft hack attempt means for the midterms. the target for democrats right now, brett kavanaug ....