President since watergate. Trump emailing supporters today with this message on this anniversary of the greatest witch hunt in American History it, i am asking you to renew your sustaining membership for the 2018 year to show the witch hunters that not a single patriot backed down from our fight. Fact check. Some of the people who were burned at the stake would probably disagree with you there. Take that, witch hunters. Keep in mind that the supposed witch hunt has ensnared the president s Campaign Chairman and his former National Security adviser among others while his lawyer fixer has seen his Office Raided and appears to be headed towards a serious indictment. That former trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is currently wearing two ankle bracelets for his two looming trials and just a few hours ago on the, we learned manaforts former soninlaw has pled guilty and been cooperate with the government. More on that in a moment. On the senate floor this morning, Chuck Schumer pointed ou
Well, the president promised new answers by tuesday after his administration receives a full report. Joining me now is karen, khashoggis colleague at the Washington Post. And their global opinions editor. Great to have you with us. First, let me get your take and weigh in, if you can, on the president s response thus far, especially now that weve confirmed that the cia has this assessment that, in fact, mbs as he is known in saudi arabia, knows of this killing and tried to keep his distance from that assessment. Since the beginning of this whole tragic saga weve seen trump basically accepting mbss denials, pretty much doing almost everything that he can to avoid outright criticizing mbs or saudi arabia. We are living in sort of an upside down world where president erdogan of turkey, frankly, has been stronger in advocating for answers and for justice for khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, and the virginia resident than our own president. What this says is just that hes basically
Official action as president to try to thwart the russia investigation. The first was a year ago when he fired james comey. The president later explaining that it was the russia investigation that was on his mind when he made the decision to do that. So, that was the first time. He didnt just complain or sort of squawk about the investigation, he actually did something. That was a year ago. Now, a year later, for a second time, he has acted. This time, he ordered a Justice Department investigation of the russia investigation. He wants the people investigating him to themselves be subject to a doj inv investigati investigation, which she demanding. The president has made a lot of noise. Hes expressed a lot of opinions. He has taunted and derided people about the russia investigation in his usual way, but when were talking about action, were talking about overt actions hes taken as president , using the power of the presidency to affect some sort of change when it comes to that russia in
Angry. You know who else isnt a democrat . Probably not angry either. Bob mueller. No, hes not angry. I think angrys not the word. Focused. Calm, not angry. Life long good morning everyone. Unlike a lot of those republicans yesterday that were on that committee. They were just sort of unhinged. Really angry and unhinged. Hair on fire. Just sort of spewing a lot of facts that werent true, but they were so angry and unhinged, for an fbi director, life long republican like chris ray whos committed his life, certainly, did this, came in donald trump asked him to be his fbi director. Came in and is doing such a great job. Rod rose enstein, a life long. Theyre yelling and shouting. For them to be so unhinged and screaming and yelling like that at two of americas top Law Enforcement officers. A lot of americans are looking and saying why are they so unhinged. Because theyre worried. Its that simple. If they werent worried, they wouldnt about. I thought with the tie undone, they are worried. I
And have you ever wondered what its like to meet donald trump . When i walked in, his first sentence kind of tre me off. He said trump hears that you dont like what trump is doing. And i thought wow, that youre trump. Tonight exclusive video of bill gates describing what happened the two times he met donald trump. Both times he wanted to know if there was a difference between hiv and hpv. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Today one year into the mueller probe, donald trump is fundraising off the fact that he is mired in the worst criminal investigation of a president since watergate. Trump emailing supporters today with this message on this anniversary of the greatest witch hunt in American History it, i am asking you to renew your sustaining membership for the 2018 year to show the witch hunters that not a single patriot backed down from our fight. Fact check. Some of the people who were burned at the stake would probably disagree with you there