or bob muller's staff, tell us everything you did. that's the first thing they ask and the reason they ask that is that's how they measure someone's capacity. if he told them everything he did, his lawyers say now that he's told you everything, he wants to be protected from being prosecuted. >> all those things. >>ment issometimes the plea agreement will say that but sometimes it says the government will bring in further charges related to the information about general flynn's conduct, about which the government has information as of the date of this agreement. that phrase, those closes are missing andist strange he's not the there. >> it's possible there is nothing else there and the special counsel feels there is nothing else that feels comfortable with the 1,00001. >> what is that? >> lying to the government, to the fbi. it was a tool back when i served as u.s. attorney we use not frequently but often times when you might not make a full case and come early in a case and a lot of that is going on. see two guilty pleas we have here.

>> they are laying the bricks for credibility of bob muller and will work with the base. gaslighting has been talked a lot. the idea donald trump is able to create an alternate reality and convince people only his reality is true and it starts with the foundation principle of lying, lies, exaggerations, huge lies. that's what he's engaging in attacking bob muller and also when charges come down, should they come down, his final closing argument will be you can't believe bob muller is not credible. >> all right. sam and david, thank you both. that is "all in" for this evening. >> tonight, just minutes away from election day in alabama, roy moore amid allegations of sexual misconduct calls in steve bannon for the final pitch as doug jones and the democrats try to pull off a rare alabama victory. >>> also, the white house on defense about renewed accusations against donald trump who is reportedly infuriated with nikki haley after she said the women should be heard. >>> and 18 days under the harsh blair of the mueller investigation, nbc news reporting on the focus on michael

>> they are laying the bricks for credibility of bob muller and will work with the base. has been talked a lot. the idea donald trump is able to create an alternate reality and convince people only his reality is true and it starts with the foundation principle of lying, lies, exaggerations, huge lies. that's what he's engaging in attacking bob muller and also when charges come down, should they come down, his final closing argument will be you can't believe bob muller is not credible. >> all right. sam and david, thank you both. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. rachel? >> i'm endebited to you. >> i feel good as opposed to guilty as going over an

it may not be run by bob muller.igation existed before muller was appointed to run it and would very likely exist if he was fired. it would be taken over by somebody else at the department of justice or one of the u.s. attorneys that would have a jurisdiction and venue over the case. so it would be unfortunate if bob were removed. he's a wonderful leader and a wonderful prosecutor but it would exist without him. >> okay. chuck rosenburg, appreciate your insight. come see me again. >>> in 2018 president trump will be off to the races campaigning for the midterm elections with low approval ratings and the russia probe hanging over his head, will he be a boost for republican candidates? ♪ when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. >>> new this morning, president trump gearing up for a campaign about gop candidates and next year's elections and according to the washington post the president told advisors he wants t

first point, joy, when bob muller found out about the texts, he had pete struck removed. hard to criticize bob for removing pete any earlier than when bob found out. putting that aside, there is a concern it gives rise to an appearance that investigators may not have been there but a more important way to look at it, right? at the end of the day, in whatever form if he brings charges or reveals the fruits of the investigation was the outcome. did he apply the facts to the law and if he did, all of this other stuff, joy, they are just distractions. >> yeah, it's interesting these distractions are mirrored on either side of the dime here. on one hand, you have the kremlin orchestrating attacks using their typical cybersecurity methods. then you have that being echoed by republican lawmakers and fox news and conservative media that i'm wondering if in your experience that is a typical scenario. >> well, it's not a typical scenario, nothing about this seems particularly typical. but these attacks are really playing to one particular venue and that's a political venue. at the

>> they are laying the bricks for credibility of bob muller and will work with the base. gaslighting has been talked a lot. the idea donald trump is able to create an alternate reality and convince people only his reality is true and it starts with the foundation principle of lying, lies, exaggerations, huge lies. that's what he's engaging in attacking bob muller and also when charges come down, should they come down, his final closing argument will be you can't believe bob muller is not credible. >> all right. sam and david, thank you both. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts now. rachel? >> i'm endebited to you. >> i feel good as opposed to guilty as going over an act. >> i really need chris to take 29 more seconds and then you just gift them to me. appreciate it. >> whatever you need. >> thank you. >> thank you at home for joining us. much appreciated. >> a lot of news today and sort of two big political stories that have been happening simultaneously and one story that is totally off of politics but has riveted the nation's largest city

bob muller has that information now. we don't know it but we're going to find out if the president's answer was not only untruthful or incorrect because of the meetings we know about but if there are more damming contacts that are yet to come to light. >> julia, briefly walk us through and be general for those of us who haven't covered every twist and turn, what flynn's vulnerabilities are on the subject of turkey. >> of course, i'm glad you asked about this because i got a lot of questions why did we hear so much about flynn's involvement with turkey that's boiled down to one paragraph at the end of this statement. we know that flynn when he was head of the flynn intel group worked on behalf of the turkish government. he at first said that he was working for an intermediary, didn't understand it was part of the turkish government. later, probably a little too late he came forward and filed under the federal agent registration act that said he was in fact lobbying on behalf of a turkish government. turk turkey's goals wa

the second thing is that bob muller takes lying to the fbi very seriously.now have two people who have been prosecuted and plead guilty to lying to the fbi. the third is that jeff sessions recuse l was entirely necessarily not only because bob muller may be taking a look at jeff sessions' own statements to congress but also because all of these people who are being charged had relationships with jeff sessions during the campaign and transition. he was the head of the foreign policy team. it's not fair to say that jeff sessions decision to recuse was in any way the wrong decision. it was exactly right. next, these things take time. what we know from today and we already knew this from some sally yates' team earlier this year is that when -- is that michael flynn was interviewed by the fbi on january 24th. on january 24th, the fbi knew that he had lied to them because if what's been reported is right, they listened to the phone calls from three weeks earlier so they knew he lied. even so, even with an aggressive talented team of investigators and prosecutors,

robert muller, donald trump is on twitter including over this holiday weekend attacking the fbi and bob muller and individual members by name? that cannot be helpful to their defense strategy? >> i think it complicates it. i think all you have to do is go on twitter to see the reaction and what legal experts say about mr. trump's tweets at times and there have been a lot of stories how his advisors wish he would tweet less. in this case, he backed the deputy director of the fbi, he attacked others. and not that long ago he said the fbi was in, quote, tatters. i think that wears an agency down. a lot of agents i spoke to don't appreciate a lot of the criticism. they're trying to move forward and do their jobs. there are 13,000 agents. >> beyond not appreciating it, do you detect among the fbi about that you talked to, the fact that donald trump as well as republican lawmakers and conservative media are making these attacks on the fbi in tandem with what the kremlin is doing? >> not so much. i haven't picked up in tandem and historically -- >> meaning both are doing it. kremlin is putting out th

. >> did bob muller recruit people to his probe that had a bias. >> he was a key player in the clintonestigation. the same peter struck who helped -- was a key player in the russia investigation and the same peter struck who was put on muller's team, special counsel bob muller's team. >> you remember from law school legal doctrine the fruit of the poisonous tree. if that one agent at the center or source is decidedly anti-trump and decidedly pro-clinton, that raises real questions about all of the conclusions that the fbi has reached on any and all of these matters. >> the fruit of the poisonous tree. this is where we're at. republicans decided their strategy is to discredit the entire fbi and specifically to discredit robert mueller's special counsel investigation. that's how they are approaching the investigation. what's the other side? what's the fight back against that? that's next. stay with us. girls are not in school because of economic issues and they have to work. there's early child marriage, there's war and conflict. at the malala fund we help girls stay in school. there are

the attorney general, presumably the deputy attorney general or bob muller leading this investigationre was cause to investigate this they in fact could question the attorney general on that issue. >> congressman jim hymes member of the intelligence committee. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. (avo) if you've been struggling with belly pain and constipation, and you're overwhelmed by everything you've tried-- all those laxatives, daily probiotics, endless fiber-- it could be wearing on you. tell your doctor what you've tried, and how long you've been at it. linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. do not give linzess to children less than six and it should not be given to children six to less than eighteen. it may harm them. don't take linzess if you have a bowel blockage. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially wit

so i think there were a number of issues that bob muller could have actually tacked on to this agreement but we only got the one charge of lying to the f.b.i. and i think the reason for that is because i think bob muller is expecting that michael flynn will cooperate and michael flynn will provide information that will help. get to his stated goal which is determining collusion within the campaign and so i think there is information that he has that he will be he will be providing to this special investigation and also one my other point to make note of is this deal does not go on to play until at least three months from now and so i think the reason why that is is because bob mueller is looking to extract as much information from michael flynn before he actually signs off on any agreement keep in mind michael flynn was a very high profile target both in the campaign and in the white house and so what he's looking to do is bob mueller is looking to steadily senate are going to be a fascinating few days and weeks ahead for the moment and camp little analyst thank you so much for sharing y

potential charges against mike flynn it also indicates he must be providing substantial cocooperation bob muller. b because. if lawnmowers near for go with those other potential charges must be having something of value in terms of. jennifer's cooperation. blaine is a fourth in self fire most senior figure from the administration indicted in this sprawling in the the asian. white house lawyers seeking to distance the president from the proceedings said that nothing about the plea implicates anyone othther tn flynn. leona such bill powell who's the senior washington correspondent for newsweek magazine this is what he told. i think i i serves to raise questions at all but his most die hard. on them so managing i don't wanna hear supporters sure i think it raises on. questions. but it's also true that that. an incoming national security advisor during the transition. can meet and talk withh. . born officials with with soon to meet counterparts you can talk with. a russian ambassador without that being necessarily a crime. there is also i think. as someone who. who arrived here earlier this year aft

be disbarred but the big question here is whether or not donald trump is setting up a firing of bob muller listen we might see obstruction charges reach this president based on the current investigation but his behavior right now is only going to elevate that likelihood that we see obstructionism and what we have seen from this president and his administration suggesting that he is above the law rings of shades of nixon and the words are almost exact and so what the president does from here on out will be ultimately determined of of his survival in this presidency and it should be because the reality is no president is above the law and this president is certainly acting like yes bill yeah larry first of all. if the president for john dowd wrote this story and gave it to the president which i don't believe but even if that's the case the tweet won out under donald trump the name he must have read it one would hope before he sent it out and he's briefing sarah sanders and stands by his to be for her told us that presidential tweets are official presidential statements so they are or they ar

we saw a story that bob muller has subpoenaed bank records. today recant the story, but never in our lifetime have we had such a fighter in the oval office, and what the american people saw in many of you were here last year when canada trump was here and he is a man who wakes up every day and fight for what he believes in. i have to tell you one story because it's important. it's probably one of the greatest things that ever happening in my life. president trump is elected and he gets sworn in on january 20 and he calls me and he says corey, you never come visit me. this is february of this year end he says will you come see me in the oval office. i said absolutely. i have never been to the oval office. i walk into the oval office and there's a leader of our free world sitting behind the desk and to his far right is the vice president of the united states and i stand right outside and he sees me and he says get in here. i walk in to the oval office and he says my man, come here. he stands up and he gives me a hug and he turns the vice preside

impunity or perhaps from my point of view, fire rod rosenstein, put in place someone that will tell bob muller privately you cannot look into these issues. you cannot follow the money. you cannot consider and investigate whether russians laundered money to the trump organization, guaranteed loans for the trump organization, you can't look at any of those that could provide leverage by the russians. >> what's that about the money stuff? the white house may want to put someone in charge of the mueller investigation, the congress volunteers that will say you cannot investigate whether the russians laundered money through the trump organization. you can't investigate whether they guaranteed loans to the trump investigation. you can't look at things that could provide leverage to this president by russia. what? russia laundering money? russia guaranteeing loans to the trump organization and getting leverage by this president? where did that come prom? but adam schiff is a careful deliberate speaker and i've been wondering all day why he brought that up and then tonight on the senate floor, senator

katie is right though, you don't want to make bob muller into a martyr or victim. change the narrative and make him more sympathetic. he's in a horrible job of managing his investigation. he hasn't kept his people and lined. these embarrassing e-mails and text messages make it clear that some people who are investigating the president were trying to bring him down and saw themselves as protecting america themselves from american democracy from the president. from your point i think it's important to keep in mind the long gain here and that the president is much better served by leaving muller where he is and waiting this out because anything we've seen so far is basically obstruction and so-and-so by the fbi but it's not gotten close to trump. the media put these out about firing muller. i gotta tell you, i've watched things pretty carefully, i've never seen the president about that or talk about that. >> that is so true. and what it is, they want him to do it because think about it,. >> he stacked the deck against donald trump with all these hillary lovers, anti-

is the fbi and that's why you see him going after the fbi so harshly in the place of going after bob muller quiet you do see people coming to their defense. the statement is beyond reproach. how effective is that defense as we see the president and others piling on here? >> many of the republicans that are now attacking mueller were the ones to say he is beyond reproach. he was a great choice but now that he's trying to wait his way into the white house, you see some republicans get freaked out. he could be charged with something like obstruction of justice and that the collusion aspect is coming full circle with the cooperation of mike flynn and george papadopoulos. what really matters right now is making sure trump stays calm and doesn't do anything like fire mueller over the holidays which several democrats are very, very concerned about. >> let me ask you about the house intelligence committee's investigation in particular. there are always investigations happening in parallel. there are many high profile interviews. what does that in particular say about the focus of the house's invest

this has to play out and rest assured, bob muller's team will do a thorough job and it won't be over until it's over. >> do you think, this news about the agent removed from the case in the summer who apparently appears as perhaps having an affair with a co-worker with whom he exchanged text messages, which may have been about the president's tweets? it's unclear how much impact will that have? >> i think we'll be hearing an enormous amount about it. i think the hill will ask a great deal of questions. i suspect the texts that were the reason he was removed will eventually get to the hill and become public. ultimately, i'm not sure it has the ability to derail muller unless the president chooses to take action. >> that is the big question if the president has been given a sort of cause here to get rid of him. thank you both. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" for this evening. the 11th hour with brian williams is next. >> tonight we're covering several firsts in the modern history of the presidency. before he attacked and troeld and diminished the fbi this weekend, the president might

that person was just interviewed by bob muller's team on thursday of last week and again this week isto be interviewed again for another day. so he has been surely asked a lot of these same questions. that's more important than what the president tweeted on saturday. >> and carol, to that last point in terms of mcgahn being sort of in the middlecgahn being in the middle of the interview when they starting on thursday broke on friday when the flynn investigation -- sorry, when the flynn plea agreement was announced and maybe picked up that interview already this week or will later on this week, is it a crime for somebody to tell a lie to mueller's investigators in an interview setting? >> it absolutely is something that could be prosecuted and charged. if you are lying, if you give inconsistent statements, i mean, a prosecutor has to make a decision about how important this lie is. and what you're trying to cover up. and whether or not you're intending to conceal. but it is certainly something that's prosecutable. >> and has that threat has a way of focusing the mind i'm sure as a gene

. >> one democrat under fire says based on rumors trump will fire bob muller. >> i believe the presidenttigations. >> muller will not be fired. >> the president's transition team are now accusing robert mueller's team of improperly obtaining documents. >> donald trump one in spite of and the democrats and he failed and that is the real story here. we are one week away from seattle arriving at your house. >> people play holiday music and art in the christmas. >> you could say holiday doesn't mean you're not take seven right in people. ed is having a war on christmas. ed: i've also launched a war of breakfast this morning five i did this morning because ed wrote it in the past you for your e-mails because i feel like oatmeal and i like oatmeal but i feel like it's a little bit like yesterday the seven he likes his eggs. it's a midwestern thing. pete: asked all of you to e-mail us. how do you feel about oatmeal? and you have been pouring in with your comments and rightly so. terry said this. rachel: dole said. i agree with that. ed: michael corwin said just kidding. i don't know what michae

bizarre regime politics and you're right going back to the segment on what they are trying to do with bob mullerinst him and none of these charges are real. it is unfortunate when we make mistakes but the stakes are high right now but everyone involved corrected them. none of this is malicious and we're waiting for donald trump to correct his many, many mistakes on twitter and elsewhere. >> absolutely. it is sort of delicious irony that the call by donald trump, again, the president of the united states calling for individual journalists to be fired and calling for people to sue members of the media but on the dave wi gle front, he tweeted a picture early on so it wasn't full and donald trump is obsessed with crowd size for himself so he's calling on him to be fired but david corrected himself. this is both an obsession he has with his crowd size and himself but also something, is it dangerous and wrong to say it's dangerous for him to be punching so far down to an individual reporter? >> yeah, i mean, he's become sort of like this right-wing blogger. knit picking over photos and things like tha

immediately tonight i have filed the resolution to have bob dole recuse himself recently many trump supporters have been calling for special prosecutor robert muller the man in charge of the russia probe to be fired they point to a newly released batch of text messages from two f.b.i. agents as evidence the f.b.i. officials worked on the clinton investigation. and the probe into whether trump's twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia in the messages turned over to congress by the department of justice and agents show preference toward clinton winning the white house and refer to trump repeatedly as an idiot this is not just political opinions this is just gusting on accountable bias and there's no way that could not affect a person's work the agents have been removed or are no longer investigating russian meddling or potential obstruction of justice by trump speaking recently on capitol hill the deputy attorney general told lawmakers there's nothing inappropriate about f.b.i. officials holding political opinions so long as it doesn't affect their work trump disagrees it is very sad when you look at those documents and. how they've done that i

this team bob mueller and the professionals around him heard a perceived bias and was removed, that's what you do. >> the president's legal team wrote a letter to congress complain being muller's team and his team pushing back saying not so fast these e-mails were acquired legally. >> right wire talking about public e-mails, saying bob mueller was on a transition e-mail account where there was not expectation of privacy as the fbi agents were on their work phones and their text messages were released night before rosenstein testified to the committee. and for better reason anything come before it which is they may have been working with the russians which is under investigation. i don't think that will stand up as a legal argument or keep them from being ad missable. >> this is from a interview from chris christie on msnbc earlier. >> he deserves scrutiny, you know why, because he was involved in the transition and in meetings that call into question his role. >> is that just bad blood between christie and the kushners or does he have a point. >> no he has a point it's not js jared kushner's involvement in the transition it's that he also attended june 9th meeting that he met

bob dole recuse himself. many trump supporters have been calling for a special prosecutor robert muller the man in charge of the russia probe to be fired they point to a newly released batch of text messages from two f.b.i. agents as evidence the f.b.i. officials worked on the clinton investigation. and the probe into whether trump's twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia in the messages turned over to congress by the department of justice agents show preference toward clinton winning the white house and refer to trump repeatedly as an idiot this is not just political opinions this is just gusting on accountable bias and there's no way that could not affect a person's work the agents have been removed or are no longer investigating russian meddling or potential obstruction of justice by trump speaking recently on capitol hill the deputy attorney general told lawmakers there's nothing inappropriate about f.b.i. officials holding political opinions so long as it doesn't affect their work trump disagrees it is very sad when you look at those documents and. how they've done that is really really very the depu

the president's lawyers sent to muller's stuffa a long memo of why obstruction of justice charges wouldn't be appropriate. if you draw that together, you have to say that bobller is definitely looking at whether the president and people around him also helped obstruct justice. >> let me ask about one specific point you raised there about when sally yates acting attorney general went to the white house to tell them -- issue them a warning about the current national security advisor, the white house counsel who was the person who sally yates met with on january 24th saying he's angry that salary yates didn't tell him at that meeting that flynn created a crime and lied to the fbi and if what you're saying is true, that the fbi would know he lied to them after they had spoken to him, in that first -- in that first week of the trump administration, should sally yates have told the white house that the fbi believed that flynn had lied to them? is she -- was she at liberty to do that given the on going investigation. >> at liberty is one question but whether it's appropriate or not is the right question. i think she made the right call. she waited until the fbi -

bob mueller. clearly, in his response most directly to you and also in the rest of the responses today even to republican members seemed like deputy attorney general rosenstein had no interest in entertaining the idea mullerle, he didn't seem to want to entertain any idea of bias or impermissible behavior or personnel involved in the mueller investigation. >> that's right. i told deputy attorney general rosenstein we're all counting on him. this investigation is a very narrow bridge and the most important thing he can do is to not be afraid and fearlessly walk that bridge and show independence because he may be asked to fire bob mueller and the best thing he can do is to refuse to do so until the president's able to find someone who can and then i think that would warrant obstruction of justice proceedings. >> congressman, let me ask you about one substantive piece of this investigation that i just don't get. i'm asking you about this as a judiciary committee member and an intelligence committee member. national security adviser mike flynn pled guilty of lying to the fib about talking about sanctions. we now know from good reporting not contested from the white house a lot of other trump transition offici