-oh. >>> back with andrew weissmann, former member of the senior counsel investigation and now an nyutone will still have his sentencing late next week on thursday. the government prosecutors in the stone case submitted a sentencing recommendation that said give him a bunch of prison time and the next day after the president tweeted a new sentencing recommendation that meant no, don't, we didn't mean it. the judge will have to consider -- what does the judge do with those two filings? what does she make of this? >> so i think -- one, the judge is excellent and she is smart and she's tough and she will be tough on either side if they're playing games. whether it's the government or the defense. i would expect her with respect to the government having a lot of pointed questions about you submitted something initially that said certain things about the facts and also made certain representings about the law, which you then retracted and said, well, we're not saying the law really requires this. she's going to put it how can you say that? i looked at the law. the law does require this gui

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we welcome andrew weissmann back to the studio. i have to ask you about tonight's lead story. it is beyond disheartening. they're already in the game, virtually unfettered, with the added advantage of screwing with the election arcaneia of the election primaries. i asked frank figliuzzi, what can we do about this ball game? >> i think the main issue is how the country is going to react to this. at some point people need to react to this as citizens and not as partisans. i lived and you lived through 9/11. we witnessed the world trade center being attacked and the pentagon being attacked. and no one sat there and said, is it hurting democrats or republicans. we reacted to it because it was a foreign adversary who attacked our country. we're under attack now. and, by the way, this is not the robert mueller report that says so. this is the senate intel report that was bipartisan. and at some point people have to not say who is it helping or hurting, whether it's helping or hurting a democrat or republican because it's hurting our country. so i think that's the fundamental issue,

with us at the table former fbi andrew weissmann. this seems to represent a first chapter -- and i was part of the planning for the bird flu. i know what it is like in the federal government to prepare for the possibility of a global pandemic and just to make sure our viewers are not more scared than they need to be, that has not been declared. the concern is we're on the brink of one. but the president seeming to say we got this and the economic team saying it is all fine. that is not matching up with the messages coming from the world's health leaders. >> that is exactly right. not just from the global health leaders, but from the cdc that basically warned today that it is not a question of if, but when the coronavirus comes to the united states. so what you're seeing is this very disconcerting split screen where you have the president and some of his top advisers saying it is all under control. nothing to see here. and then another set of people also affiliated with the administration saying we need to be prepared. we potentially

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. >> back with us tonight, we're happy to be able to talk to andrew weissmann, former lead prosecutor during the russia investigation working under special counsel mueller. he is these days a distinguished senior fellow at the nyu school of law here in new york. counsel counselor, first off, you worked for the mueller effort. the stone effort was a subset of that. let me start by asking you, what can't you talk about because of your previous work? >> so, i can talk about what's happened in the last few weeks, which is i think of interest to everyone. i cannot talk about what happened during the special counsel's office on the stone case or any other case that we were handling. >> let's start there. the departure of these four, their withdrawal from the case. how did this hit you? what does it mean inside doj? >> so, i think it's the four people. i think i would add to that the replacement of jessie lu as well. >> okay. i wanted to get into that. >> you mentioned that, and that is also extremely rare. so, to take that first, there is nothing wrong with the president replacing a u.s. at

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i don't know how i should get answers but i would like to ask some of them of andrew weissmann.ntly professor at nyu law. thank you very much for being here. >> i hope you're not going to ask me any of those questions. >> i've laid this out in stark terms. do you think i'm being unreasonable? >> i don't. i don't think you're being unreasonable. the one point i would make is this is not a democratic/republican issue in terms of where we are today. i have served under democratic administrations and republican administrations in the department of justice. i worked on the enron case, which was highly, highly political in the sense that there was enormous interest in the press about whether ken lay, the then chairman of the firm, was connected to the vice president. >> the brand new bush/cheney administration? >> exactly. and there was not a scintilla, not any political pressure put on us at all. it was -- it was classic department of justice, which, as you follow the facts, the law. if it's a warranted investigation, it will be brought and that full investigation was led by republic

i feel there is something so big in play that i think the deep state knows it, andrew weissmann referredo it in his comments, don't take heart in the mccabe thing because this is much bigger than you ever will know. i believe it's going to shock the conscience of the nation in the end. do you agree with me? >> i believe crossfire hurricane was a danger to democracy. i think it should never happen again. i think it was set up to destroy the trump campaign, and protect it from russian influence. i think andrew reisman needs to tell the country why it took two years to do this been an investigation when you should've figured it out in the first week there was nothing there. >> sean: senator lindsey graham, thanks what you are doing. when we come back, let's take a little trip down memory lane. going to remind you how the hate trump media mob used to fawn over michael avenatti. now there's egg on their face, singing a very different tune now found guilty of extorting my nike piers morgan straight-ahead nex next. talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. >> sean: famous trump hater, attorne

. >> andrew weissmann with a long time doj attorney and the top prosecutor in the miller case, but keepnger with the department and so he may not be quite as in the loop as he once was on cases like this. >> ed: thank you, here with moore, andrew mccarthy, former prosecutor and fox news contributor and andy, good evening. >> could even evening, ed, claiming here that there's a bigger broader probe of the deep state. i'm not skeptical about it ethic it's idiotic and look, there's already an investigation into the origins and conduct of the trump in russia investigation so if anybody's looking at mccabe, and all those guys, that's the durham investigation and you have a situation where there has been all kinds of funky stuff that's gone on in the case. flynn has asked to get his plea back and it's under circumstances where, now, federal court has found that the underlying come out in flynn's but in the pfizer stuff, federal court has found that there were all kinds of misrepresentations made so given the totality of the circumstances, it would be irresponsible for the deposits e departmen

the lead prosecutor, andrew weissmann, is now literally an msnbc comparator.udge in this case, amy berman jackson, is an out-of-control democratic partisan, who purely come out of spite, strip roger stone of his first amendment rights and prevented him from making a living, coming on this show, for example, speaking at all in public. now stone and his wife, who is 71 years old and death , have lost their home because of it. they have no insurance, they are utterly broken. the whole thing is shocking and it's disgusting. it's a farce that discredits the entire american justice system. the president seems to understand that. he cannot allow this miscarriagf justice, he tweeted recently. he is right. on a couple of levels. what's happening to roger stone is totally wrong. it's immoral and we should not allowed in this country. but politically, it has significant scum too played stone's prosecution was designed in part to confirm the fantasies that democrats have constructed to explain the outcome of the 2016 election. his conviction helps their case. in other wor

here is andrew weissmann on how rare it would be for a sitting attorney general to do just what he did. >> the attorney general does not review sentencing submissions. that never happens. everybody in the department knows that. to make it sound like he did, which is, this is kind of a normal thing that i review them -- no. he reviewed them in connection with two rich, white men who are connected to the president. that is the only two. i would love to hear from the attorney general who else has he done this for. >> josh, first of all, that's saying a lot. second, this cabinet agency you cover is easily the most process-driven and ideally the most rigor-driven branch of the government. >> right, brian. i think it could be up to 50 years that roger stone in theory could be sentenced to. but the thing that's really troubling and what i would pick up from what andy weissmann said, the justice department has gone out of its way to say they thought the prior administration, the obama administration had been too lenient with criminals, particularly folks involved with drugs and that folks shou

you have heard the comments on msnbc, globalism is the answer andrew weissmann says. i don't know who died and made him an expert on globalization after he screwed up everything in the investigative arm of our federal government. t. that is clearly lunacy. the reason we don't have more cases in the u.s. right now is because we did issue those travel advisories.av we did put people into quarantine. we have these travel restrictions. if we didn't do this, we wouldng be looking like italy or south korea, or god forbid, even worse right now. and it's important for us to remember, china criticizes us for these travel restrictions but that is exactly what china did internally, imposing these quarantines, knocking down --ti >> laura: can you imagine donald trump actually shutting down travel? he could actually do that right? well, yeah -- what? yeah, i mean, do you want to contain the virus, or do you want to spread the virus? let everyone come in from any country and then we will call ourselves a kumbaya society. if you want to control itststo coming back to control it righ

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and jelani cobb, and andrew weissmann, a former federal prosecutor and fbi official.we have geoff bennett with a look ahead to everything today. but i want to begin with andrea mitchell. not everyone is in every hour of this. some people are watching super bowls. some people are enjoying their weekends. if you didn't catch up with everything friday night, we are reconvening monday with a very different senate. a very different situation. what's important to understand heading into these closing arguments? >> heading into the closing arguments i think what's important to understand is we have got a split screen moment of course with iowa on one hand and impeachment on the other. to say nothing of the super bowl results, yay, kansas city. but what we see today is closing arguments without evidence. and the fact that those 24 emails are being withheld among the 100 or so emails that were finally going to be released at midnight, midnight, that would be the equivalent of the smoking gun tape from the oval office never being heard in the nixon era. i mean, it's clear that