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Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened. and i think history will not judge them kindly. reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. how democrats last week put up a bill to provide election, security funding. the republicans rejected that. and it is clear that the house republicans have completely gone derelict in their attitude to protect america. and hopefully voters will change. top officials on election security. we a ....
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. he was indicted for payments made to a mistress, how much stronger would an election fraud kbas in this instance if you throw in cohen s testimony? they tell me it would be much stronger for the following reasons. they say these were not made to the campaign, they were made to keep them from john edward s wife. michael cohen prepared to go into court and say yes, these payments were related to the campaign. motherover the payments from john edwards were two years before he ran for president. these happened just a few months before the election, and there is a tape now where it is being made clear to him that this Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. tower in 2016. this contradicts the president and junior s accounts, so if this is a true, how damaging could this be? i m not sure how big of a deal it would be when it comes lega ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. of the house judiciary committee. congressman, let me start with you. do you think michael cohen is credible? i do. and if michael cohen is telling the truth, it means there s at least three felonies in what he s about to say. first, donald trump conspired with a foreign power to influence the election. second, donald trump went ahead and lied about the meeting, which could be potential obstruction of justice. and third, trump junior lied to congress when he said his father did not know about this meeting. we re way beyond not normalizing what shouldn t be normalized. these are potential criminal felonies. that s why the robert mueller investigation needs to proceed without any more political interference. you know, there was always a striking thing that happened on the house side, the house intelligence committee in your investigation into these matters, which it sort of said, well, we ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because it would be a very big deal, in fact, if, a, he knew about this meeting and if he had been lying to the american people about it all along. the second thing, and dan can speak to this, is if you ve got a witness who or somebody who may have some cr ....
that s the combining of the denial with the collusion is not a crime narrative. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. you see it in all the tweets. now it is roaring back because of the thursday night bombshell that the president s own former lawyer and fixer cohen is claiming despite all the denials, the president did know about the russia trump tower meeting in advance. when that report drop, you know what happens next, they picked it up and whipped it around and began running with it again. it s hard to see the point of all of this hysteria. what would the crime be? it is not illegal to talk to foreigners. nobody is claiming that any information changed hands. even if did it, so what? i don t think it is bad if campaigns are turning to foreign governments for dirt. it s not collusion. it is not something that s impeachable. as they today? hacking. donald trump famously doesn t pay his own contractors and his own long time lawyers? even ....