Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
they re requesting to preserve the documents and all the findings that mueller had in case. so for how long have we been waitsing to hear from robert mueller? not a peep, not a single leak from anybody surrounding robert mueller in this investigation. if he s called before congress he doesn t have to mean choice tuesday say no, but there can be of course be calls of executive privilege here. and now the irony of this is even though we don t know exactly what he s said other than the public indictments that we ve already seen, everyone is declaring victory here already. if the sun rises in the morning it s a big win for us. but the reality here is we don t actually know what s going to be said here. and he could decide it to the country s advantage to be out there speaking. it ll also be interesting to
armed forces. it is now a humanitarian issue to prohibit the aid which i insist is destined to save lives in this first stage could be considered as a crime against humanity. the relief items are currently stockpiled in neighboring colombia. it s unclear if they will ever reach the rzen people the open six says he ll try to deliver them next week. cnn s isa suarez has more from the colombian-venezuelan border. reporter: flour, vegetable oil, rice, medical kits, nutritional supplements. this is the first batch of u.s. aid coming into colombia, stand income a warehouse at the moment waiting to be going into venezuela. we are about 300 meters or so from that block aid in on the venezuelan side of this bridge and this aid is going to be waitsing here until there is a decision exactly to you to take
we re looking forward to that the beat, 6:00 p.m. eastern week nights. but more importantly the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, ari. thanks. much appreciated. thanks for joining us at home. it is friday. so that means the news has again a little nuts again. i feel like there is nothing predictable about american news cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. that s one thing you can count on. it s friday. things are nuts. tonight is no exception. tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. and over the course of this hour, actually, we re waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. i ll just tell you flat-out, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. as i speak right now, it s 9:00 p.m. eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. republicans have
large magazine capacity to mow down dozens of people. the president says he ll eliminate those bump stocks even if the house and senate fails to do so. he ll sign it away, he says. let s see what happens on all of these fronts. senator merkley, thanks so much for joining us. very welcome. good to be with you. just ahead, a new push for testimony by one of the president s closest advisers, hope hicks, will she answer questions from the house intelligence committee. and the president puts himself in the shoes of the first responders. analysts are waitsing to stand by on his statements land he has a viable plan of action. i really believe, you don t know until you re tested but i believe i d run in there even if i didn t have a weapon and i think most of the people would have done that, too. because i know most of you. but the way they performed was really a disgrace.