It is treason. Another guilty plea on the outside. I see papadopoulos today, i dont know papadopoulos. Another Camp Campaign aide is sentenced. Mueller has his sights set on a bigger target. The threat to our democracy doesnt just come from donald trump. It is indifference. President obamas return to the Campaign Trail. You are the antidote. I began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know on the last day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the oped. Asked by a reporter if he thinks the Attorney General should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. Claiming the oped is a matter of national security. After issuing denials yesterday, Administration Officials are going the extra mile to claim
their innocence. Throwing down the gauntlet. The New York Times if you are listening, if someone told you i wrote the piece, you are allowed to announce that. It is totally not me. Maybe the president should challenge every single one of the officials who issued statements yesterday to follow suit. All of those underlings are the least of the president s worries. They are not the ones investigating him for Obstruction Of Justice and conspiracy. As negotiations draw on and on, the president sounds less eager. You and rudy are saying
youre not willing to answer questions to mueller about obstruction. Number one, there is no obstruction. In two, everybody that looked at anybody over there. I dont know papadopoulos. I dont know him. I saw him sitting at one table. I dont know him. But they got him on i guess a couple of laws ies is what they saying. Speaking of papadopoulos. And his lawyer made an extraordinary argument according to reporters in the courtroom that the president of the United States hindered the investigation far more than the lawyers client by launching a Fake News Campaign and calling the probe a witch hunt. Papadopoulos was sentenced to just two weeks behind bars. The first of the felons close to the president to be sentenced to prison. Though Paul Manafort has been locked up. The grand jury in the Mueller Probe was meeting in the same courthouse today. Where far right Conspiracy Theorist Coarsy to appear. Corsy has told that he would like to fight the Special Counsel. Lets go outside of the justice department, lets duke it out. You want to behave like a thug, this is what you deserve. Okay. Today after his lawyers say he plans to cooperate, corsy was a no show. The man he called his Back Challenge to wikileak julian
assange. How much of the questioning . Very little. No. Dont. The majority of the question he had with roger stone. The specific questions we are not going to get into. God bless lawyers. Another sign that the Special Counsel may be closing in on the president s long time ally and advisor. Tonight there is this. A Single Source report that federal prosecutors in new york did not end their investigation with Michael Cohens guilty plea but are now examining whether executives at the Trump Organization violated campaign laws. I am joined by Nancy Gertner retired federal judge and harry litman. Nancy, let me start with you. A lot of people trying to make sense of the sentence today. 14 days what papadopoulos pled to you, what do you think . The guidelines were within six months. So i dont think it means anything except that be the judge saw a 29yearold or a younger man who seemed to be showing remorse. And the government really wasnt pressing. The government didnt say anything with respect to probation and six months. I think they saw it, the judge would have seen this as the kid is showing remorse. Some time was necessary, but i dont think it has significance beyond that. It was a minor plea agreement. Harry, lets talk about the roger stone part of this. It has seemed clear for a while that muellers zeroing in on
has even bigger fish to fry. I have seen the government do exactly that. Final question here on this idea that, there question when Michael Cohen pleads, one of the things he pleads to is Campaign Finance violation. He says the president of the United States directs me to it and the information provided within that plea is there are two executives who did not know about it. One is wiseleberg. Today the idea the Southern District if new york is looking at Campaign Violations by trump or executives, you would tend to 0 in on Whoever Executive number two is. And it is a small list of people most related to the president. Mueller knows. And not just related to the president. The organization is related to the president. This puts the screws to him in a
serious way without having to deal with Authority Questions of civil liability. Between mueller and new york ag, they are coming at the financial empire. Possible civil rico charges. That is serious pressure even though it is not criminal. And that persists regardless of what happens to mueller. In parallel. It didnt end with Michael Cohen and you have sdny still on the case. Got to sit there long and hard. Great to have you both. Thank you. More on todays develops. I am joined by republican congressman. You can play ball. I saw a clip, i asked on twitter today who is the ball player in congress, and you can genuinely hoop. That is very true. I like it. Many people feel devin nunes and others have done. Pull at the threads that may have been public. Other things, just the president s general fitness. I want to play some reaction to the anonymous oped describing the president as fundamentally unfit. Take a listen. There wasnt much new information there. All of us have said for a long time, glad there are people who are willing particularly those publicly, like Jeff Sessions to push back it is just so similar to what so many of us hear from senior people around the white house three times a week. So it is really troubling in a way not surprising. This is what all of us have understood to be the situation from day one. I understand this is the case. And thats why i think all of us
encourage the good people that are around the president to stay. Is that your reaction . I think in large measures stood. And i think the woodward book may enunciate that or embellish upon that further. What the president does, it rallies. The base loves him when he does that. My followup to that is everyone in america can watch that and in the Swing Districts where folks are focused on what you are saying and what you are doing, they dont like that. Now we can talk about the political implications because i think republicans have a good chance of holding the house. If you are asking me about my frustrations with what the president does and says and some of the Character Flaws i am there. I want to go one step further. If you have people close to the president inside the white house who say he is fundamentally
unfit. Anonymous unelected folks take things off his desk, that seems democratic untenable. If he is unfit from office, he should be removed. Couple of things, Senator Corker took the shot with the adult day care thing. I take issue, i dont know who wrote it. The only thing i can guarantee is who is elected next is going to have an anonymous oped published. I would take more stock in bob woodward what he wrote in his book. A terrific basketball player. One last thing. 3 wage increase growth year after year. That was the other thing that came out today. The wage numbers look good although nonsupervisory still
low. I agree. Tight labor markets. Appreciate you being here. Thanks for having me here. I am joined by congressman ted liu. Is it an untenable State Of Affairs there the president is unfit but we are going to go ahead anyway. Absolutely. And about this white house official, i think what he has done is really confirmed from the inside what we have seen in the outside which is donald trump is unfit for president. And he cant go around and try to resist the president anonymously. He needs to be public and come forward and convince the American People and if he cant do, that he needs to resign. As a staff member he was not elected and you cant. Have the voters make a decision. I want to ask you what i
asked harry litman. Is your understanding is that they would not be able to bring an indictment. I think Special Counsel mueller could bring an indictment. I dont think he will. He could certainly bring in indictments afterwards. I think note that Rudy Giuliani said this investigation was going to end on September 1st clearly it is not ending. This investigation is going to continue and there is no time line for when it ends. Should the president be subpoenaed . If he doines not talk to Special Counsel mueller, he should. He has a right to plead the 5th amendment but doesnt have a
right to ignore the request from the Special Counsel. Isnt there some level which American Voters should know what is known or knowable about what the president did or didnt do . Absolutely. So you have again, the senior white house official trying to resist within the administration. But you have this complicit gop congress. To be an adequate checks and balance on the presidency. And in 60 days the voters across america have the ability to change it if they want to. Swing districts out in california. What do you see as the driver for voters in the Swing Districts that are close to your district in southern california. I think donald trump is one driver. But also the republicans have
tried to sabotage health care and try to take away pre existing coverage. That is weighing on peoples minds. And then the breathtaking corruption. Multiple people that have been indicted or pled guilty. All of these will be drivers in the election your colleague in the california caucus duncan hunter. Congressman, good to have you. Thank you. A new entrant to the midterm fight. As President Obama returns to the Campaign Trail and what he says are dangerous times. In his own words in two minutes. How can we say when you book direct at choicehotels. Com
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how do you impeach someone who is doing a great job. It is so ridiculous. But worry about that if it ever happens. But if it does happen, it is your fault because you didnt go out to vote. You didnt go out to vote. The president was in montana riffing about impeachment. Meanwhile, we got a pretty stark contrast from democrats. For the first time in history a former president inserted himself in the national election. President obama delivered a speech. A call to arms to American Voters. Did not start with donald trump. He is a symptom not the cause. He is just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years. A fear and anger that is rooted
in our past but also born out of the enormous upheavals that is taking place in your brief lifetimes. In a healthy democracy, there are some checks and balances on this kind of behavior, this kind of inconsistency. But right now, there is nothing. Republicans who know better in congress and they are there, theyre quoted saying, yeah, we know this is kind of crazy are still bending over backwards to shield this behavior from scrutiny or consequence. Seem utterly unwilling to find the backbones. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say that we dont threaten the Freedom Of The Press because they say things or
publish stories that we dont like. I complain plenty about fox news. But you never heard me threaten to shut them down. Or call them enemies of the people. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say we dont target certain groups of people based on what they look like or how they pray. We are americans we are supposed to stand up to bullies and not follow them. We are supposed to stand up to discrimination. And we are sure as heck supposed to stand up clearly and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. How hard can that be saying that
nazis are bad. This is not normal. So these are extraordinary times. And think are dangerous times. But here is the good news. In two months, we have the chance, not the certainty but the chance to restore some semblance of sanity to our politics. So if you dont like what is g going on right now and you shouldnt. Do not complain. Dont hash tag. Dont get anxious. Dont retreat. Dont binge on whatever it is you are binging on. Dont lose yourself in ironic
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five, ten, 20 votes per precinct. And if you thought elections dont matter, i hope these last two years have corrected that impression. Joining me now is tom perez who served as Labor Secretary in the obama administration. The big project here it seems to me particularly in the midterms is it is 100 turnout. All of the ways that we understand in the special election. Is that the way you read this. We are organizing everywhere. And if you look in the last 15 months in the primaries, democratic turnout is up 83 from where it was four years ago. Florida most recently, and excited people he got them out. You look at what happened in pennsylvania a few months ago. Out in who widaho. We are organizing everywhere and we are fielding candidates everywhere. Let me ask you this, this is from something published in the New York Times back in march. Two different categories of voters that change in 2012 and 2016. We have heard a lot about them. 9 . But 7 . 4 million voters that are missing. Do you know who those people are . Do you know how to turn them out . The short answer is yes. We have identified 25 million voters in that category. We are leaving no voter behind. Connor lamb won in pennsylvania
because the socalled reagandemocrats came home. We were fighting for health care and the right to organize and good pension. I believe we can bring those voters home when we organize them. Your articles and i am familiar with that talked about became stay home voters. They are younger and more diverse. In alabama, we had organizers on college campuses. That is lightning in a bottle. Talking to young people and most importantly, we are talking about the issues people care about. Talking about the exorbitant cost of existing drugs. We are talking about the fact that corporate profits are soaring and paychecks are flat. Talking about college affordability, womens
reproductive health. Saving not only our economy, but our democracy. And that is res onating with people. Organizing, television, and digital. I know this is a wonky campaign question, but extremely important. Many people think there were lost of opportunities in 2016. Is it being deployed differently. We spend 0 on television. Made a conscious decision early on. I want to make investments that pay dividends today and dividends tomorrow. We purchased 94 million Cell Phone Numbers in florida for instance 6. 2 million Cell Phone Numbers that we gave to the democratic power. That helps them today. That helps candidates tomorrow. Our investments and organizers. I believe the two most important days this year are November The 6th which is the vote of our lifetime and then november 7th. We put our organizers on the ground make sure we deployed them for 2020. If you compare the Organizing Footprint that has been in place for months in wisconsin. With the organized footprint in place 2014, it is night and day. That is one example but not the only example. We have been doing it everywhere, in ohio and elsewhere. You see the Organizing Footprint. Building meaningful relationships. In the old days we showed up and asked for their vote. We are building relationships. And that is why to get back to your question which is an important one, we are investing and organizing. Investing and making sure we
build that organizing infrastructure. The technology infrastructure. You cant door knock in rural america. That is why we invested in digital organizing, in indiana, georgia, montana. And investing in a permanent voter protection. In the republican side. Understa understanding that we have to build a permanent engagement infrastructure. Young people are the biggest voting block. A huge chunk of the marginal group. Tom perez, thank you for joining us. 60 days until the weekend. Vote. Still to come, is Brett Kavanaugh a done deal . Im not shirt. Meet plaid shirt guy in tonights thing one, thing two, next. burke thats what we call a huge drag. Seriously, thats what we call it. Officially. And we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum
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because of cory booker and her ohno, no, hes not quite sure it is settled law. His Point Of View in the garza case was outrageous. Not to mention this young woman who was 15 weeks pregnant. Had gone through entire texas system and he tried on hold up her abortion . By the way, he showed he is loss toil birth control. You know this. Melissa knows this. Do Susan Collins is that Lisa Murkowski, they say that they support abortion rights. They say they support access to birth control. They have to know what theyre looking at. You worked with them. What do you think works on them . Well, theyre very diligent
and i know my colleagues in the senate on both sides of the aisle. And that i know Lisa Murkowski and sue collins have a lot of friends on both sides. And that i know the Democratic Women of the senate are sending them the very portions of the testimony that the two of us talked about tonight. If im them, i have to say if youre prochoice, you vote no on this guy. Not only because trump picked him because he wants to overturn roe but because of the way he responded when he was in front of the judiciary committee. The senator just mentioned this. The two likely votes. It is hard to see any other votes on the republican side. You need two. The president did something he has never done. He said i will appoint justices to overturn roe. That hasnt happened before. Theres so much about these hearings that are highly
irregular. You had the president say he intended to appoint prolife judges. Weve already seen judge gorsuch on the bench and now we have judge kavanaugh who has an opinion where he denies a young woman who has completed all the requirements by the state of toexs get an abortion and he blocks her from doing it. It is clear. Fryman the south. They tell you, believe someone when they show you who you are. I believe him. Hes shown us. So senator, there will be a week. What is happening behind the scenes . Well, right now, i can tell you that staff to staff, the staff of the democratic members who are prochoice all of them, theyre sitting down with them. Theyre showing them the record. His comments in the garza case had are cold. They are cold. I would say to my friends in the senate. My two republican colleagues that i proudly serve with