Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said President Donald Trump had brought the United States to the point where “law ends” and “tyranny begins.”

Host Nicolle Wallace said, “You and I talked, I think, over, what, six years about Trump’s very obvious assault on the rule of law. And there were, and it didn’t always feel like it, but I suppose there were enough guardrails in the system.”

She asked, “If this is now just this public mess that Trump will never be able to rein back in. There are reports today that this is going to backfire on his own allies, that he’s opened a door that will take him down a path that will damage him politically.”

Weissmann said, “Well, when we started talking about this six years ago, it still was. Something that you couldn

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