was that for me? i m sorry, that was for john. that was for me? i m sorry, brian. it s okay. you re absolutely right. that is what s going on here, and to metaphor, the trump train was going along but wasn t as good as he s. they want to get that train rolling faster and get more members of his flock, as they were, onto the base. i can torch it somehow by 11:00 on the east coast, that is what s going on. it has everything with the midterm and listens to me with this kind of stuff. eli, the other big news of
in which they were ready to move in and seek what they were after. kevin hall with the big news of the night. thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. thanks for having us. we re joined by jennifer reuben an msnbc contributor and one of the law school graduates at the table. as you ve been digesting all of this breaking news here within the hour, i want to get your reaction to the way it seems the mueller investigation is now crossing into stormy daniels payoff territory. right. there are one of two possibilities, both are campaign violations. if trump did know about it, he should have revealed that. he should have disclosed that. if he didn t know about it, then mr. cohen overshot the campaign limits by about, i don t know, $128,000, something like that.
records, mueller s team showed up at the home of a part who was part of efforts by trump to expand his brand abroad and this is someone that michael cohen has been close to. that presumably michael cohen knew about this before you did. which is to say it is very, very likely that person, hit with these subpoenas, would have let michael cohen know that? hard to know. cohen is a pretty combative person, he has a lot of friends but he has a lot of people he s rubbed the wrong way. his abrasiveness is documented. it s hard to know how much advance warning there was. our sense is there wasn t any advance warning. that s what was so striking about it, the speed and fluidity in which they were ready to move in and seek what they were after. kevin hall with the big news of the night. thank you for joining us.
turnover at the white house and the special election in pennsylvania. big news of the night, the house intel committee is ending the russian collusion investigation. we will tell you what they found out. string of package bombs are terrorizing austin, texas. we ll have a report on the latest. it has happened again. another potentially dangerous illegal immigrant released by local authorities before ice could take custody of them. unbelievable. by first, opposition within and without is the focus of tonight s angle. they were in the usual break-out mode after the president spoke in pennsylvania over the weekend. what they were obsessing about his harsh slam on todd they miced the heat. we put on tariffs and the european union is out there. you can t go higher than you are anyway.
touchdown dance. he railed against the news media and vowed to repeal and replace obamacare and build a wall on the u.s./mexico border. but the big news of the night came when he announced he s going to pick retired general james mattis as his defense secretary. we are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of defense. [cheers and applause] they say he s the closest thing to general george patton that we have, and it s about time! it s about time! reporter: trump made that announcement despite the fact that his own transition spokesman jason miller announced on twitter that no announcement had been made on secretary. he has nmore stops on this than you tour next week. and now that mattis is the nomination, he is going to need