MSNBC’s Reid on Trump: ‘Nothing More Nixonian’ than Wanting to Take Control of the DoJ

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REID: "Good morning and welcome to A.M. Joy. There is nothing more Nixonian than wanting to take control of the Justice Department and Donald Trump expressed frustration with the Justice Department quite a few times. To reporters before departing on his 12 day Asia trip, he complained on local radio, Twitter and again on Twitter and then a few more times. All because he wants sessions and the DoJ to stop special counsel Bob Mueller from investigating him and start focusing on investigating, you guessed it, Hillary Clinton. Lock her up, lock her up. Trump’s carping and undemocratic zeal to jail his political opponent hasn’t stopped the special investigation into Russia’s involvement in our location and it appears that they are zeroing in on Jeff Sessions, too. Mueller unsealed indictments that revealed that sessions’ testimony under oath that he was not aware of any Trump campaign surrogates communicating with Russians was something other than accurate. And lying to Congress under he oath is a crime. This photo, we know about because Donald tweeted it out in March of 2016 as a way of bragging about his national security and foreign policy advisory committee. Jeff session was the committee chairman, Gordon the committee director and right in the center is George Papadopoulous, the then 29-year-old former trump campaign adviser who last month pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about police efforts to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from Russians. He is the latest person to be officially implicated in what we like to call stupid watergate. And Papadopoulous’s presence during which he allegedly bragged about his ability to arrange a meeting between trump and Vladimir Putin seems to be triggering a form of amnesia in Trump who once told us having a great memory was a true requisite for becoming a competent tent president."