I have no doubt. When all in starts right now. Good evening from 30 rockefeller center. Im chris hayes. The topranking Communications Official at the department in charge of combating the pandemic, the department of health and Human Services, is a dangerous crank who is krund undermining science and raving about delusional conspiracy theories. His name is Michael Caputo. The Trump Administration installed him at hhs in april in the midst of this once in a century pandemic despite a history of sexism and racism and conspiracy mongering that would keep most people from getting hired just about anywhere, never mind the Trump Administration. The New York Times reported that caputo posted a video on facebook yesterday in which, get this, he accused career government scientists of sedition, claiming they do not want america to get well, not until after joe biden is president. Caputo also claimed that trumps opponents are now training for an armed ins rex after the election, telling his follo
Mass evacuations, whole towns burned, dozens of lives lost already, and with today yet another day of almost unbelievably widespread, suffocating smoke blanketing huge swaths of the west coast, even far away from the fires themselves. Some of the worst air quality on earth is in the American West right now. We are going to be checking in on that a little bit later on this hour. Today at the atlantic magazine, reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, who had the deeply unnerving scoop about a week ago about the president calling American Service members losers and suckers and him being disgusted by the presence of wounded veterans, today Jeffrey Goldberg had another scoop, landing the first print interview since the impeachment of the president this past december with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who of course was a firstperson witness to the conduct of the president toward ukraine, which led to the president s impeachment in december. Well, now tonight, lester holt from nbc news has just do
Another day of widespread suffocating smoke blanketing huge swaths of smoke, some of the worst air quality on earth is in the American West right now. Were going to be checking in on that a little bit later on this hour. Today Jeffrey Goldberg spoke about the president and losers and suckers and being disgusted by wounded veterans. Today he had another segment with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman who, of course, was a firstperson witness to don duct of the president toward ukraine which led to the president s impeachment in december. Now tonight lester holt from nbc news has done the first interview with vindman for television, and it is a remarkable thing. What is your message about young people in power. I had a lot of peers reach out and soldiers reach out and people i know to pass support. Its that i did the right thing in their perspective and i was still hung out to dry, and what that could do thats what i fear most from a second Trump Administration, that you have people wh
Answer questions with the house intel committee, he said the white house instructed him not to talk about his work there or even during the transition, bannon did admit that he had conversations about the now Infamous Trump tower meetings, but otherwise, he wasnt talking about. The white house defending its coordination with bannon. Theres Steve Bannons attorney is so my questions are, who was he relaying the questions to, is that something the white house specifically asked his attorney to do . And if so, why did the white house think that was a necessary step in handling bannons testimony . That is the procedure that is typically followed. They usually have a white house attorney inside the room, this time it was something related by phone and again was following standard procedure. Theres nothing automatically wrong with that either, so bannon didnt talk, because as the spokesman explains, there was an arrangement to do this. But bannon when it gets down to controversies doesnt have
To get him out of office. At least while hes dealing with the russia probe. Thats a separate issue. First, Trace Gallagher for what we can expect from this. Trace . Hi, neil. During his News Conference in san diego, we expect the attorney general to expound on some comments he made yesterday in arizona where he said President Trump is irate about what is happening at the border, referring in part to what you mentioned, the caravan of Central American migrants that showed up last week. The attorney general says even without the border wall, theres things the administration can do to crack down on illegal immigration. The a. G. Says he will send an additional 18 judges to the border and 35 prosecutors to get the Immigration Court system moving much master. Jeff sessions also reportedly says that the department of Homeland Security will now refer anyone who crosses the border illegally to his office for prosecution. The a. G. Says the doj will take up as many cases as possible. Its notabl