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Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. 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 had been appointed was pretty obvious right there. he saw the writing on the wall, that it was because he had recused himself from this investigation that this had been allowed to happen, that rod rosenstein was allowed to appoint this special counsel. the way we all see it and the logical way to see it is the appointment of robert mueller was because of the firing of jim comey. it was actually the president s decision to fire jim comey, not jeff sessions decision. but knowing donal ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. jeopardy for the president. we re learning more about the trump-mueller 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 person familiar with both meetings. the president immediately blasted sessions for not knowing the announcement was coming and challenged how the person he just interviewed for the fbi job and who trump had said he had a past dispute with over golf club fees could now be investigating him, the person said. now, we don t know if trump had turned down mueller for the fbi job at this point. but we do know that christopher wrey wasn t named until a month after. read on the man, he kne ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. will decide if the president is likely to sit with robert mueller for an interview while at bedminster. but it might not be donald trump s 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 president. that admission comes as we are learning new details about the trump mayor relationship. bloomberg reports that the day after he interviewed robert mueller to be the deputy director of the fbi trump was in an office meeting when it was announced that mueller was announced to be the lead investigator of the campaign. trump and attorney general jeff session were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. trump blasted session for not knowing the announcem ....
A recap of the day s news. A recap of the day s news. A recap of the day s news. through the revolving door down here, there s a word that became a word i never heard of until this presidency when people were sort of struggling with how to describe this government of sort of fringe characters, people with resumes that did not usually enter into government service. and that word is chacistocracy. it points in this presidency, it s been an apt way to describe it. to paraphrase donald trump, they re not sending their best. and i think the evidence that you it s not a partisan point, you laid out the evidence there of an administration that is just filled with people who have either crossed ethical lines or challenged norms that we have all upheld for decades in this country. and all being led by the president at the top who sets that tone. let s talk more about the swamp here, rudy giuliani says they have responded to mueller s latest proposal regarding an int ....
and the president needs something to energize his base. nothing would energize republicans more than let s save the president. good to see you and welcome back. a morgan, let me just try and start with you. because giuliani is now saying maybe this whole investigation will help republicans come november. well, yeah, i think the president has actually said that himself at amou lot of these rallies, of they re going to try to impeach me, to motivate his base. they re looking for things to galvanize their base, and the president tends to turn things on their heads. he wants to energize the base, will it work? i think one thing law enforcement tends to be bad at and that eegsz mo s politics. The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. the president s team doesn ting want doesn t want to do that especially this close to the election. but their jobs are to protect him. rudy giuliani is not a trial attorney, so he s not representing the president in a ....