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Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. It happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. At the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the United States. And when a defendant is Pleading Guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to Say Something more important than the word guilty. Thats usually the most important word a defendant speaks during a guilty plea session. But today in Federal Court in manhattan Michael Cohen said guilty, your ...

Sentence in this case and you agree to cooperate. And i think from Robert Muellers perspective it would be worth it because even if Paul Manafort doesnt have anything incriminating i think Robert Muellers quest is to get to the truth and Paul Manafort certainly knows a lot of what happened. He was present at that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. He has all the connections with the russians and the ukrainians and so it seems that hes in a position to know a lot of what was happening with regard to any connections with russia. So i think we might see that. Barbara mcquade, former u. S. Attorney...

End of this? >> i think there's a big possibility we'll be asleep depending on what mueller says. you mentioned john dean, i think you're absolutely right. that would be at one end of the scale if you're talking about testimony in history that has moved public opinion against a president. that was june 1973. there were rumors and there was some evidence that nixon might have been involved in the watergate coverup. john dean comes in and says i've got news for you, president nixon was at the center of the coverup, and i know it because he tried to recruit me to help him and i can give you all s...

Situation with me yesterday and says he wants michael cohen to come back and testify before he starts his prison term in march. what do you want to ask him? what do you think he might be able to share with your committee? >> sometimes when you interview a witness it's better to let them just do the talking, and he seems to be a witness now where you just want to ask him what happened, what did you see, what did the president hear, what did the candidate do? i think of june 1973 when john dean sat down and gave a full come clean ail kugs before the house for the watergate proceedings and i thin...

Federal office." jon, where are we tonight? >> well, i think we are -- one of the things the trump era has done, as you know so well, is it has now taken us beyond superlatives. i googled "worst day of trump presidency" earlier and got something like 600 different candidates for it. but i do think given that the legal time is now catching up with political time, and that always -- the wheels of justice always move more slowly than the press, than a lot of the people who are deeply engaged in the conversation. and this is rather like the third week of june 1973, when john dean went to the senat...