keep using it now because that's plant buys its coal from bob murray. from murray energy. from the president's gigantic donor, both to his super pac and the mysterious late donation to the inaugural. this is like the platonic ideal of simple corruption. murray pays trump, including after the fact those slush fundy -- murray pays trump then trump uses the presidency to direct a public agency to pay murray. to prop up murray's business. use federal resources. use the taxpayers' resources. use the country's assets to reward the guy who gave him money. and if what i just described is the way that we had learned about that scandal, if it in fact had been some enterprising digging investigative reporter who had turned that up as a secret deal, that would be a pulitzer prize winning scoop for that investigative reporter who uncovered that scandal. but in our morally bewildering current environment, in fact, the way we learned about that scandal is just from the president's public statements on twitter. it was the president himself who just broke the news of this scandal. because

bob mueller. i'm also joined by former federal prosecutor gene rosy and melissa murray, a law professor at nyu. thanks to each of you. on the mueller piece, each of you are legal experts in various ways, but on the mueller piece, john, what would bob mueller want to know from this person who plays a spokesperson role? would she have the juice on anything else? >> well, i think you need to ask and expect them to thoroughly and diligently investigate the facts as they have to ask her, often the person in that role is privy to conversations with the principles inside the white house. so it's an opportunity to learn what did she know before she made certain public statements that might appear to be designed to influence people outside of the white house and explore what the basis was for those statements. >> interesting when you put it like that. let's take a look, then, a some of what she was saying about all of this controversy. >> the statement that don jr. issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. he certainly didn't dictate. >> the outside counsel did weigh in saying yes, the pres

president obama and bill murray practiced putting into a glass in the oval office, while president nixon held an ashtray for bobing alley even built in the white house. you can't pin that on trump, though the golf simulator inspired stephen colbert to tweet sorry, mar-a-lago, but you should have known the president would cheat on you too. commented someone else, he is probably installing his own mcdonald's branch in there next. imagine a white house room carpeted with turf. >> you just need that killer ultimate man cave. >> reporter: why putter around the white house when you can actually putt in your man cave. when you hear this noise emanating from the white house late at night, you'll know whose still up. jeanne moos, cnn. >> because i'm going to be working for you. i'm not going to have time to go play golf. >> reporter: new york. >> and thank you for joining us. anderson starts now. >>> good evening. we begin keeping them honest on a busy and consequential night with a tweet in the president and a passage from the constitution. first a tweet, and note the fact this is from donald trump back in 2014. and i'