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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Probes next target. One of his close allies, the Manhattan Madam, testifying before a grand jury in the investigation today, while another one of stones allies is being held in Contempt Of Court today for refusing to comply with the judges order to testify. Which means hes choosing potential jail time over cooperating with robert mueller. Here to help us understand all the days developments, joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney and law professor, frank figliuzzi. On set with Us White House reporter from the the Washington PostAshley 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 so ....
The idea of possibliy resigning. Whats unclear is how serious that was. Whether he said Something Like i am willing to resign if the president wants me to or whether he said i intend to resign and im going to do it on monday. We dont know the exact nature of those conversations. Eli, i want to hear about your reporting. I want to show our viewers what phil rucker is talking about. Lets watch. I have a message for the president tonight. Under zero circumstances should the president fire anybody. If you are laying a trap for donald trump, this might be exactly how youd do it. Okay, professor, what will President Trump do now . Well, if hes smart, hell take advantage of this and not fire either any of these people, not mueller, not rosenstein, and not sessions. So this is important point because i think a lot of people are really scared after the
rosensteins people to come out ....
History will judge mueller will judge comey as, yes, having a big melt but in some ways being responsible for a little bit of transparency and accountability in the trump administration. ashley parker, i asked you before about how having this sort of doj fight on his hands seemed to benefit trump and his supporters. it certainly helped with programming at another news network during primetime hours. i wonder what the opposite of that looks like. does trump, we know he asked don mcgahn look into how he would process jim comey and hillary clinton, mcghan served as sort of a guardrail. what is the war on justice 2.0 now that he s got an ally like bill barr there? now that we have some of these investigations winding up, does trump take his toys and go home, lit jim comey live his life? doesn t seem very trumpian. sure, it doesn t. that s a great question. we don t exactly know and there is a big difference between trump s rhetoric and his tweets ....
Pension benefits vested. so the president was the run racing the clock. i think that s an important question for a court to decide, whether andy didn t get the process he was due. if that s the case, nicolle, it would be a fifth amendment violation, which entitles all of us to due process. rick stengel, the president s war on justice was the word chuck described is right, merciless. it was unending. the lawsuit also alleges, quote, it was trump s unconstitutional plan and scheme to discredit and remove doj and fbi employees who were deemed to be his partisan opponents because they were not politically loy politically loyal to him. mccabe s termination was evident. donald trump told the new york times in an interview he wanted roy cohn. if you wanted a witness, i would pull out the recording of donald trump telling your colleagues at ....
Treat him with a certain respect and deference and he wishes that happened here. i think he truly does live in a bit of a fantasy where he could be a dictator and have a compliant fox and friends state-run media. let s go through the three areas we laid out. the war on justice. new reporting this week from the new york times we re learning that president trump told his white house counsel don mcgahn that he wanted to order the justice department to prosecute two of his political adversaries. his 2016 challenger hillary clinton and the former fbi director jim comey. the lawyer don mcgahn rebuffed the president saying he had no authority to order a prosecution. mcgahn said he could request an investigation, that, too, could prompt accusations of abuse of power. to underscore the point, he had white house lawyers write a memo warning if he asked law enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment. so we talk about impeachmen ....