Gearing Up For a Subpoena Showdown

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🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg is joined by Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham law school, to talk about the letter that leaked this past weekend wherein the president's lawyers all but admitted that he obstructed justice. Plus, what's the bigger game plan behind the leak and how can this effect Rod Rosenstein's oversight of the investigation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the reason you don't let the president testify.
0:03.0	If, you know, every...
0:05.6	Our recollection keeps changing.
0:07.4	Or we're not even asked a question.
0:09.0	And somebody makes an assumption.
0:11.0	The Court in the Congress are not simply bystanders
0:14.0	to out of control executive.
0:16.0	That was written by Donald Trump Jr.
0:18.0	and I'm sure with a consultation with his lawyer.
0:20.0	They said he wasn't involved.
0:22.0	Everybody around the president,
0:24.0	there's such liars that we can't go in front of Mueller.
0:28.0	He certainly didn't dictate, but, you know, he...
0:31.0	Like I said, he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do.
0:38.0	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.
0:40.0	The show about the man with the absolute power to pardon himself.
0:45.0	Donald Trump.
0:47.0	I'm Jacob Boysberg.
0:49.0	That assertion from the president this morning
0:51.0	was just one of the powerful signals we've had
0:54.0	over the last couple of days
0:56.0	that were headed for a legal showdown
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