Play out . First of all, some news that nancy pelosi made, essentially pouring cold water of the idea to move the budget forward, this big budget deal because it doesnt actually include something for the dreamers, the daca deal. That is something dick durbin who i spoke with this morning trying to push his democratic colleagues to get on board. She says she cannot do it without it. Youll see a flurry of activity on the senate side when they gavel to order. There will be a vote on a stand alone military spending bill and then onto the house proposed short term spending, cr resolution to keep the government going. Theyll strip the language and put in their own language and thats expected to go to the house tomorrow where they would vote to avoid a Government Shutdown. At the same time, brianna, what is happening and what senators are quite excited about at least is this bipartisan deal that theyve come up with to try to avoid all of this short term spending and funding of the government
To the show. How long will the polar regions be covered with ice the earth is warming and rife temperatures are making glaciers and sea ice melt. Like in greenland most of the island still has ice cover hundreds of meters thick but thats set to change one geologist thinks thats not necessarily bad for greenland future. Travelling through southern greenland its easy to understand why the vikings called the island green it has hills meadows lakes and rivers the endless ice starts further north. Many grows in calls this landscape home he was born in greenland is great grandparents used to hunt here here comes loose to work. The prize winning geologist from the Natural History museum in copenhagen often travels to the north he says greenland is an open book that just has to be read. Its all these rocks in the landscape tell a story but of course you have to be able to understand their language but then they no longer keep their secrets. On the contrary theyre full of stories and they can h
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 455 of the Trump Administration brings major developments in the russia investigation. Another wild one. A lot of them breaking just tonight over these past few hours. Chiefly we now have the 15 pages of memos that former fbi director james comey drafted about his interactions with president donald trump. Earlier tonight the Justice Department sent those memos to congress, and as things so often do, they ended up minutes later in the hands of the news media. They do confirm that on february 14, the president asked comey this with regard to the investigation of now former National Security adviser mike flynn. I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting flynn go. We also learned that on january 28th, remember, fewer than ten days into his presidency, donald trump told comey he had, quote, serious reservations about mike flynns judgment. Thats the National Security adviser in the west wing. And lat
Germophobe by the way. And as republicans lay the ground work for obstruction Rod Rosensteins real problem right now is more with congress than it is with the president. Guess whos joining the Trump Legal Team . What difference at this point does it make . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One of the top lawyers on special counsel Robert Muellers Team Reportedly confirmed a pretty remarkable bit of information in open court today, that investigators started looking at Paul Manafort because they suspected the former Trump Campaign chairman might have been serving as a back channel to russia. The revelation came during a hearing in washington, d. C. Where manafort is claiming that mueller overstepped his authority in the russia probe by indicting manafort for financial fraud and other charges. But according to a Senior Justice Department prosecutor, muellers team was entirely justified in investigating manafort because of his role in the campaign. He ha
Over the steele dossier . I think they ought to apologize to start with, Michael Cohen. Ben smith joins me exclusively on cohen and what they have verified from the dossier. Im also very much of a germophobe by the way. And as republicans lay the ground work for obstruction Rod Rosensteins real problem right now is more with congress than it is with the president. Guess whos joining the Trump Legal Team . What difference at this point does it make . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One of the top lawyers on special counsel Robert Muellers Team Reportedly confirmed a pretty remarkable bit of information in open court today, that investigators started looking at Paul Manafort because they suspected the former Trump Campaign chairman might have been serving as a back channel to russia. The revelation came during a hearing in washington, d. C. Where manafort is claiming that mueller overstepped his authority in the russia probe by indicting manafort for