That is how they used to do it when he was in charge. Now that the white house has handpicked someone to take over that job, apparently we get the kushner forms 7 00 on a friday night. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again on monday. Now its time for the last word. Ari melber sitting in for lawrence tonight. Good evening, ari. Good evening, rachel. Sometimes the news breaks late and people ask why, and theres no reason. And then sometimes it feels like maybe theres a reason. Thats right. And, you know, some of these things, i just feel like its because were all cursed, and we dont get real weekends. So fridays just end up being a busy day. But there are some things in the news tonight that feel like legit, deliberate Friday Night News dumps that are supposed to be burying these things. Right. And your reporting on what outgoing former director shaub said adds context to that. I am ari melber in for Lawrence Odonnell this evening. It seems Attorney General Jeff Sessions week d
joining me now a former district attorney for the southern district of new york, and joyce vance, a former northern district attorney. what do you see as legally important for the family? i think you can put it into three different tran were tranches, ari. you ve got the big unknown, which is what their role was in what we ve been calling collusion. and your right to point out that michael cohen s indictment and his criminal information references his connection to trump tower. but bob mueller is not investigating trump tower moskow. he s not investigating the trump organization. he is investigating russian collusion.
we have no dealings in russia, we have no projects in russia, we have nothing to do with russia. daniel? well, look, i mean this is where we get into semantics. ultimately there was no deal in russia. that is true. but what they were hiding were their efforts to make a deal in russia that miraculously and perhaps, you know, not coincidently ceased on the same day that it became public that russia had hacked the dnc s e-mails. so there is a link right there, and we get a sense of around the edges of a lot of links, and unfortunately, ari, and for the viewers we re going to have to wait until bob mueller connects these dots. i am guessing there are more e-mails and i am guessing michael cohen s testimony is a lot more robust than what s in that criminal information. that is really going to tell the story. joyce, a final thought from you on that point and while mueller puts what he includes in
but i think that we should expect this to be rolling out fast now. exactly. and i will say, on a law school note and letting you know, watching you read the intense legal factual drama of a hearing, law schools all across america could use that. i was more, it was more interesting than reading the transcript which i ve done from time to time. it is kind of just me reading the transcript outloud but i do the little voices. eventually i will get puppets or maybe friends. puppet, puppets are some of the best friends we can all have. great. i wish you a great weekend. and a happy anniversary weekend to your family. thanks very much, ari. much appreciated it, my friend. thank you, to rachel. today, we begin with this thought that is a fact. a united states president, arrives at a major foreign policy summit with the world credibly wondering whether that president is actually there representing the united states, which is what he is supposed to be doing, or is he there representi
in the world. my wonderful mom and pop celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary today. my mom was fresh off the boat from newfoundland and she wore a white mini dress. my dad was a capten in the air force and he wore his uniform. you can t see the wedding picture. that is private. but it was this date at 1968 at the chapel of the presidio in san francisco and today marks a half century for them since then. 50 years. of better and worse, richer and poorer, sickness and health. happy 50th, mom and dad. you re amazing. and with that, now it s tight fime for the last word with ari melber sitting in for lawrence. good evening. can i wish your parents a happy anniversary. you re absolutely allowed. i m so excited for them. happy anniversary. before i let you go to your weekend, i have to ask you, we cover this stuff, a lot, daily, you might say. but when i look at this week, it does seem like much more of an inflection point and it is the first time mueller has