Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Joining us now intelligence and National Security reporter for nbc news, politics editor at theroot. Com and former Chief Adviser or al gore and a former senior aid to president obama. When a trump tweet ends with National Disgrace, a tweet that includes a misspelling by the president , it reminds me of the days when misspelling was a National Disgrace when done by the Vice President of the United States, dan quayle on the word potato, days that no one can really remember at this point. Here is the president and the only reason i read the tweet is to note the level of hysteria, which increases in direct proportion, it appears, to just how disturbed the president is by the news hes reading or being read to him in the New York Times. Lawrence, you can almost say he was unhinged. You could, yes. By the way he seems to be
responding to these things. I have to say i have been avoiding that word sin
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
And say if you are in our country illegally, a single crime is too many. Talk about adding outrage to insults. Already breaking our laws, and then committing crimes. And there are an awful lot of crimes committed by people here illegally, and by noncitizens more broadly. The u. S. Sentencing Commission Says 44 of all federal inmates are noncitizens. Thats a huge number. Why wouldnt we be upset by that . Yeah, so, that federal data is only for federal prisoners, as you probably know. Tucker thats right. Federal prisoners account for fewer than 10 of all prisoners in the United States, and thats not representative of other crimes. Ill give you an example in 2016, almost 18,000 Homicide Convictions in the United States, but only 85 through the federal court because they simply dont prosecute homicide. So if you want to take a look nationwide at convictions and incarcerations of people by Immigration Status, thats a much better way to do it. Tucker well, you cant. No. It would be. Hold on,
And people are exhausted. Trump did respond to Michael Cohens plea today. This morning he wrote if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of Campaign Finance violations that are not a crime. President obama had a big Campaign Finance violation and it was easily settled. Trump also spoke to fox news about his relationship with Michael Cohen. He was a lawyer for me for one of many, you know, there was a lawyer and the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. I dont know where that term came from, but hes didnt do big deals. Did small deals. Not somebody that was with me that much. You know, they make it sound like i didnt live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. Turned out he wasnt a very good lawyer, frankly. He was somebody that was probably with me for about ten take this all together this being the president of the United States after all. The Washington
You can see it weeknights 6 25 p. M. Eastern at facebook. Com Anderson Cooper full circle. Right now the news continues. I want to hand it over to chris cuomo for cuomo prime time. Chris . All right. Thank you, anderson. I am chris cuomo. Plm to prime time. We have new information about what may be next for Michael Cohen. If hes going to deal with any more authorities. And the president s latest legal misstep. Trump has twisted his story once again about the payments made by his lawyer to help his campaign. And this latest one has him tied up in knots. We have trumps former lawyer, whom he called for advice about how to handle the cohen situation. What he thought then and now. And you know the president is on his heels with what just happened because he whipped out his what about defense. What about obama . He did it too. No, he didnt. We have the facts ahead. And a convicted felon gets some
very high praise from the president , raising a question. Will Paul Manafort soon be getting a