Youre running for u. S. Senate in West Virginia. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president of the United States is taking right now concrete steps towards a major high stakes confrontation with his own Justice Department. The strongest advocate for cooperating with special counsel mueller is now leaving the president s legal team. The administration confirming that ty cobb who represents the white house in the Mueller Probe is stepping down at the end of the month. According to one report, cobb has been clashing with the president over trumps combative prostour towards the investigation. Ty was uncomfortable with the mueller tweets. He was not going to be part of a mudslinging campaign. If you take a look, theyre so conflicted. The people that are doing the investigation you have 13 people that are democrats. You have Hillary Clinton people, you have people that worked on Hillary Clintons foundation. Theyre all i dont mean democrats. I mean
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One of the most infamous members of Donald Trumps cabinet, the one living in a lobbyists house in washington, d. C. , epa head scott pruitt now appears to be hanging on to his job by his finger nails after a swirl of negative stories increasing the perception the Trump Administration as a whole is an ethical mess. According to politico, the white house has been actively considering firing pruitt behind the scenes possibly following the release of an inspector generals investigation noose pruitts lavish travel which weve covered here but which for the record is not even the scandal of the moment. Because this morning, the white house claimed that pruitt is still in the president s good graces. An Administration Official telling the news trump called pruitt to keep fighting and that the administration has his back. Of course, a supportive call from trump isnt worth much. Last week trump called now fired va head David Shulkin for a friendly chat
Enforcement personnel are trained to take really good notes for just such an occasion. And comey obviously was relying on his own notes from his conversations with the president when he put together that very careful testimony for congress, both his written testimony and his testimony under questioning. So he was relying on his own notes. And he was probably relying on those same notes. He may have been relying on the same notes when he spoke to boente or the comments from the president may have been so fresh that boente was able to write them down immediately after basically james comey heard them from the president. And these guys put quotation marks in their notes. Their phrases are immediately echo each other. And thats how you build a body of evidence. These are trained professionals. Rachel, im going to break with what ive got lined up here because iready to go, one of our first guests. He is the editorinchief of law fair, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and msnbc anal
Thank you. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. If youd like to vote for susan to host the next Rachel Maddow show taking your calls live on the air about gardening tips you can vote you cant. Happy monday. You know, theres been a lot of complaining, public complaining by the president. Theres been a lot of all capital letters misspelled tweeting by the president. Theres been a lot of cheerleading by the president for people who go on the Fox News Channel and make arguments disparaging the fbi or Robert Mueller or the special counsels investigation into the russia issue. Theres been a lot of noise. A lot of complaining. A lot of yelling. But if you clear aside all that noise, if you treat this president and this administration as a silent movie and you pay no attention to what they say and you only observe what they do, it really is twice now that the president has takeown fishtak takeown fishel action as president to try to wart the russia investigation. The first was a
I want to get your reaction to what you think are the highlights of what you just discovered. Its hard when youre doing it yourself. But were there moments you popped and i didnt see that coming . In the interest of full disclosure, dude is sitting next to me still and hes 68 so theres a looming presence in the room. Also im not sure i breathed yet because we did an hour long interview, basically, without a break. I will say it is important to get director comey on the record right now live and in person at a time when his memos, which are part of an active Ongoing Investigation have been forced into the public eye and handed to the people who are presumably subjects of an Ongoing Investigation because of congress trying to make that happen. Im glad hes out talking to the public right now at a time he can give context to the documents when theyre being used for political reasons and i believe by people who want to shut the investigation down. So having him talk about that as well as sp