There was a lot of activity a very short summary. Police say they had found the person they were looking for in connection with the body parts found in a suitcase. This was in the tenderloin as a residential building called the sala burton manor. They had surrounded the entrance to that residential unit with about half a dozen police vehicles. And at some point they escorted that man out, that man had a sheet over his head. Police put him in a squad car and drove away. This is the same person they were looking for earlier that they believe was a person of interest. Heres how Police Officers say they found the person tonight. We did receive a phone call through our Anonymous Tip Line about the person of interest could be located on the 400 block of turk street. Officers responded and did in fact, take into, not into custody but we did take the person of interest to the hollow justice. We do have that person. Homicide will be working together with all the investigators and all the eviden
Prescription in terms of what you ought to do that would count as normal behavior in that circumstance. For the last couple days even this white house in its unusual situation and unusual relationship to political norms in general, for the last couple days even this white house accepted the basic principle that a president shouldnt fire the person leading an investigation into his campaign because the president doesnt like that investigation. For the past couple days the white house at least halfheartedly try to explain the firing of fbi director james comey as something other than what it looks like. They produced a memo from the Deputy Attorney general saying it was because of the handling of the Hillary Clinton email last year. They produced the Vice President of the United States to assure people in his calm, steady way that the president only fired the fbi director because of grave concerns about the fbi director coming from within the department of justice. The white house spokes
Schiff. Then the new story on the comey firing. I was going to fire comey. My decision. Tonight, how the Rod Rosenstein lie died and the mounting pressure on the Deputy Attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor. And about those russians. When i spoke with putin, he asked me whether or not i would see lavrov. Tonight, how the white house says it was tricked and my interview with former trump Foreign Policy adviser carter page on what he told the fbi. Im not going to deny that i talked with him. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We now know the white house has been lying about why the president fired james comey. The director of the fbi overseeing an investigation into the Trump Campaign. And we know this because today, the president himself weighed in. Since comey was fired two nights ago, the white house has offered a series of shifting, conflicting, pretextual rationales for the move. Vice president mike pence, press secretary sean spicer
Special prosecutor. And about those russians. When i spoke with putin, he asked me whether or not i would see lavrov. Tonight, how the white house says it was tricked and my interview with former trump Foreign Policy adviser carter page on what he told the fbi. Im not going to deny that i talked with him. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. We now know the white house has been lying about why the president fired james comey. The director of the fbi overseeing an investigation into the Trump Campaign. And we know this because today, the president himself weighed in. Since comey was fired two nights ago, the white house has offered a series of shifting, conflicting, pretextual rationales for the move. Vice president mike pence, press secretary sean spicer, white house counselor Kellyanne Conway among others all insisted the president was merely acting on the recommendation of Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who conducted a review of his own i