Investigation into the ex-president and his allies is where we begin today with our favorite reporters and friends. former top justice department official, our friend and msnbc legal analyst, andrew weissmann is back with us. also joining us, former deputy assistant attorney general harry litman and from the atlanta journal constitution, tamara is here. tell me what you are watching for? i know at this hour and at this stage it is literally body language is being scoped out, who is coming in and coming out and who is taking a break, what cars are coming in and coming out are all of the things that we try to read into. tell me what you r looking into at this hour? reporter: well things seem to be speeding up here in downtown atlanta. initially two witnesses who told us that they were going to come in tomorrow morning, were actually told they were called by the dea office and today to come in this afternoon. georgia cheaty, an independent
Effect a 20% pay cut for giving up all of our conditions. we have all been told what our red lines were and what we would not give up so putting them back into the deal was a deliberate and malicious act to scupper the deal. can a deliberate and malicious act to scupper the deal. a deliberate and malicious act to scupper the deal. can you explain to us, the scupper the deal. can you explain to us. the terms scupper the deal. can you explain to us, the terms and scupper the deal. can you explain to us, the terms and conditions - scupper the deal. can you explain to us, the terms and conditions are - us, the terms and conditions are very specific, but could you pick three things that we as viewers would understand are a real sticking point, and have been in offensive terms for you when they have been tried to change? ppm; terms for you when they have been tried to change? tried to change? any right for future negotiations, - tried to change? any right for future negotiations, paying i tried to change? any right for| future negotiations, paying for tried to change? any right for - future negotiations, paying for our own training, terminating people early, they even put in that they would put in no compulsory redundancies from 2024 close, we don t know where that came from. we sat down after christmas and that debacle, finding some broadbrush stuff that we could apply it to get us out of this dispute, then anything else we will talk about we will scoped out, take out the
And is it possible that he, his lawyers, learned about a line of inquiry by mueller which makes them nervous, therefore they go on the attack? absolutely. i m not sure we have it all scoped out, but it is clear to me that they re going to use the next ten weeks from now to midterms, do everything they can to smear the press, to bring this over. the president is not spending a lot of time being president, he is spending a lot of time running for office, running to protect people, sending out tweets. if he wins the house, he will feel more protected. if he loses the house, he has an alternative plan, he will get rid of sessions after midterms, he will appoint someone who can fire mueller and in effect john dean has been pointing out in the past, it is not clear under the law what exactly is going to happen with the mueller report, whether it will go public.