Details about exactly why President Trump fired fbi director james comey. Comeys former Deputy Andrew mccabe wrote the memo and turned it over to the special counsel. In it, mccabe details a meeting with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein in the days after comeys firing. According to mccabe, rosenstein said trump initially wanted him to reference russia as a justification to dismiss comey. Rosenstein did not end up doing that. This was first reported by the New York Times and now this raises new questions about why trump fired comey and rosensteins role in it all. The president already has something to say about this today tweeting this. Not that it matters, but i never fired jims comey because of russia, the corrupt Mainstream Media loves to keep pushing that narrative, but they know it is not true. Which, of course, requires us to cue up the nbc interview where the president said the opposite. Regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Knowing there was no good time
Abroad trump trouble in washington. Tonight making peace with the base. The United States remains fully committed to facilitating a lasting peace agreement. Will the president s new actions abroad hit home at the polls . Plus, party crashers. How new progressive candidates are shaking up the democratic party. And trade secrets. Could President Trumps boost for a China Company open up the u. S. To espionage . Obviously, this is part of a very complex relationship between the United States and china. This is shmtp daily, and i starts right now. Good evening, im katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. Welcome to mtp daily. Foreign policy crises and domestic scandal, welcome to the Trump Presidency in a nutshell. And welcome to a highly unstable political environment luj lurching from one to the other. Today was a split screen of celebration, confusion, and bloodshed as the u. S. Formally opened its embassy in jerusalem, fulfilling a Key Campaign Promise for mr. Trump. But dozens have been
Win in 2020. But first, the roots of their rage, that is the focus of tonights angle. Now all week we have been reporting on the radical agenda and tactics of the democrats newest darlings. Aoc plus three. O now unlike others, we take them seriously. Because lets face it they have proven themselves to be bold and powerful voices within the Democratic Party. The 2020 candidates and hill leadership seem absolutely petrified of them. Well, tonight, we turn to the roots of the new radical vanguard. Al the drab four antiamerican race baiting contains the dna of the leftist radicals of yesteryear. And how so . Aoc plus three is the natural outgrowth of those who believe that america is a fundamentally evil place. Founded by evil white men. Now in the past, some of this antiamerican rabblerousing was largely delegated, relegating to universities. Maybe black panther, other radical type of meetings, or dying liberal churches. Certainly not the Democrat Party. But the times, they are a changing
Tire knee. Thats what they said at the time. It hasnt happened. For more than two centuries this country relied on our institutions brilliantly designed and durable institutions to survive as an intact democracy and we have through a civil war, two world wars, great depression, 9 11 and more. All of those events put great stress on our system. None broke it. Then came 2016. Donald trumps election convinced many on the left that our associations no longer work. They must be torched and replaced by a system that will prevent trump and anyone like him from ever being elected again. Thats their goal. Theyre starting with the judiciary. At least four leading democratic president ial candidates have suggested packing the Supreme Court of the United States. Enlarging its size, adding more democratic appointees, making it political, a tool of elected officials rather than an independent branch of government. Here is Elizabeth Warren explaining that changing the court is a form of revenge for t
Nomination. This democracy is under attack, unlike any other time in the history of our country. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Believe it or not, we are just a month away from the first democratic president ial debate. It will be hosted right here with msnbc and telemundo. As we get ready for that first should have, were looking back at some of my interviews with the candidates. We begin with senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the only leading democrats to call for the president to be impeach in the weighing of the Mueller Report. Earlier this month after Mitch Mcconnell attempted on declare case closed, senator warren took to the floor in defings of the cover coverup. She did so by reading some of the most damning parts of the Mueller Report. If any other human being in this country had done what is documented in the Mueller Report, they would be arrested and put in jail. The majority leader doesnt want to us consider the mountain of evidence again