new reporting tonight from the new york times. then, the senator from south carolina once abortion restrictions nationwide. the rules according to lindsey graham. plus, our complicated economy. gas prices may be down, but almost everything else is up. who s to blame, and how do we fix it? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. . to be running once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got brand-new reporting from the new york times tonight about the likelihood of the prosecution of former president donald trump. katie benner is one of our next guests, she and her colleagues write this. the department could continue potential charges against mr. trump, much sooner in the mar-a-lago documents case then in the january six investigation then the people the report goes on to say that it s an ugly that merrick garland would be in a position to lobby criminal charges against or in the documents also this evening a federal judge in florida has unsealed more information
gas prices may be down, but almost everything else is up. who s to blame, and how do we fix it? as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we ve got brand-new reporting from the new york times tonight about the likelihood of the prosecution of former president donald trump. katie benner is one of our next guests, she and her colleagues write this. the department could continue potential charges against mr. trump, much sooner in the mar-a-lago documents case then in the january six investigation then the people the report goes on to say that it s an ugly that merrick garland would be in a position to lobby criminal charges against or in the documents also this evening a federal judge in florida has unsealed more information from the affidavit or the fbi used to get the mar-a-lago search warrant done weeks ago. geoffrey berman weighed in on that investigation. what strikes me as the most significant revelation, is t
Extremely loyal people. Tonight i will ask Michael Cohens lawyer what else hes got. There is no dispute that donald trump committed a crime. Plus, what does congress do with a potentially compromised president . We should be pushing to postpone the Kavanaugh Hearing. And the other trump world indictment. And duncan, thank you very much right from the beginning. Congresswoman Duncan Hunter misusing Campaign Funds. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. Donald trump has gotten caught. It is the president himself that now has been implicated in a criminal conspiracy to help him win the presidency. A conspiracy that doesnt have
to do with russia. And now the president s private business empire, his Family Foundation are in the legal cross hairs and we have no idea what is yet to come or how far it will go. Appearing in Federal Court yesterday to plead guilty to eight felony counts, Michael Cohen fated under oath that he broke Campaign Finance laws in 2016 before the election to cove
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Collude and corrupt the american democracy system in the 2016 election which the trump tower meeting was all about. But also, knowledge about the Computer Crime of hacking and whether or not mr. Trump knew ahead of time. Lanny davis will be joining me in just a moment. So stick around. The president s involvement of a federal crime. Despite having been caught, his role. Despite the audio tape we have all heard, the president and cohen planning the mcdougal payment. The president says he didnt know about the hush money until after the facts. Did you know about the payments . Later on, i knew. Later on i knew. But you have to understand ainsley, what he did, and they
lawyer and assistance to tell a story. That is useful, but the legal question here is Michael Flynn pleaded guilty and cooperated and we never heard about it sort of on the outside. Just strange to me, our conversations already happening to mueller. Has Michael Cohen already talked to
completely innocent. let s begin from the starting point that trump is completely innocent billionaire, who is an amazing president, a brilliant diplomat and has been unfairly targeted by a corrupt justice department. that s something that some people feel. if that is the case then where are his lawyers? i don t mean the ex oh ex supermodel he met at mar-a-lago, or the low level defense lawyer he hired without meeting, both who are now in legal trouble themselves. i mean where are the top of the class law tierney s out of new york, dallas, or los angeles. this is a high profile client. a republican billionaire ex president, who wouldn t want to represent him? especially if you re working with the premise that he s completely innocent,, and the subject of a gross oversight by the fbi, and there s endless twists to everything that he s done was completely justified. where the trump legal teams? where the firms charging thousands of dollars and money. he should have them tripping