Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. At the highest levels of the conservative movement and Republican Party, there is now a plan coming together to stop donald trump from taking the republican president ial nomination by whatever means necessary. This morning, a, quote, Secretive Group of republican operatives and conservative leaders convened for more than three hours to discuss ways to unit the right against donald trump. The Washington Post reported strategist affiliated with the antitrump group told msnbc the group is focussed on preventing trump from getting the 1237 delegates he needs to win the nomination outright. Seeking to rally around an alternative who can beat trump at the convention, including potentially someone who has already dropped out of the race or didnt run at all. House speaker paul ryan, who former Speaker John Boehner endorsed as the gop nominee if trump does not win on the first ballot, today vowed unequivocally not to be that person. Its not going to
Short time. Every vote counts. It certainly does. Less than two weeks left, the National Polls just in showing trump trailing by nine points. It shows how tight this race is in New Hampshire and trump is leading in florida. I want to kickoff with our coverage with our allstar team with our campaign correnspondents. Our mark murray and jacob rascon and katy tur. Katy, lets begin with you, lets talk about the mix of personal business of politics means today and the fact that we have many surrogates that are defending this blend of business for donald trump. Reporter well, this morning was the 32nd time that donald trump has brought reporters to events at his own properties since he announced his candidacy for president. This was a Ribbon Cutting at his hotel. The Campaign Says this was a corporate event, business event but it sure did not look that way. He was standing besides Newt Gingrich and Kellyanne Conway as well. He talked about how he got the hotel in under budget and ahead of sc
Can we fire the prosecutor. What happens if we do file the prf. Thats the thing theyve got to be worried about. Now after 24 hours the question of firing the special prosecutor maybe has been settled by sarah. She said on air force one while the president has the right to, he has no intention to do so, problem is, the president doesnt have the right to, so im not sure where we are on this. You were right about this, on twitter within the last 24 hours people need to stop saying they cant imagine that trump would. At this point, if you can not imagine something this president would do, you have in a coma since he was sworn in. Most of that is a left over verbal tick when we had president s where you could imagine what they would not do. And we get people saying if that happens, were in way worse shape than i thought. If that happens, yeah, all those things keep happening. We need to have more descriptive terms for what happened when we get beyond what is previously imaginable. Thats the
You were right about this, on twitter within the last 24 hours people need to stop saying they cant imagine that trump would. At this point, if you can not imagine something this president would do, you have in a coma since he was sworn in. Most of that is a left over verbal tick when we had president s where you could imagine what they would not do. And we get people saying if that happens, were in way worse shape than i thought. If that happens, yeah, all those things keep happening. We need to have more descriptive terms for what happened when we get beyond what is previously imaginable. Thats the world that were in now. Here is one, before you go. Here is one the comment ators. They seem to have grown out of that particular observation. It will come back, dont worry. Dont worry. Thank you, rachel. As rachel said, the senator will join us tonight. Well get reaction exclusively here on the last word to what Jeff Sessions said about the senator in that Senate Intelligence Committee He
You live to the senate floor. Of hawaii speak in speaking now. A war of words. The president s new communications director, his scorched earth attack and language so explicit, you cant even repeat it, most of it on tv. Which it may be a good thing because lets face it it is a Brutal Campaign against any perceived to be themi president enemy. But lets get right to the health care debate. That vote should happen maybe an hour from now, at midnight. Live for us on the capitol. And with us senior political reporter and political analyst david. I told you i would get back to you shortly. So ryan, what is the latest . We expect a vote in an hour. We doechnt know if they hav enough voetsz to pas. And in almost every case a house or majority leader would not allow it to come to the floor unless they knew they had enough votes to pass and that is not the case. Less than an hour away from these votes theoretically being cast. We did talk before. Which weve only gotten the official text for about