Then President Obama had seven new cabinet level officials confirmed. Trump only as of right now has two. Do you think that youre going to be able to stop some of his nominees, or are you just trying to slow down the process . Well, let me say this. First, this cabinet is unusually unique and a lot different than others. We call it the swamp cabinet, billionaires and bankers. The number of wealthy people, the number of people rife with Conflicts Of Interest and the number of people who have disagreed with what trump has campaigned on is so much more than just any other cabinet weve seen, and so that means they need thorough review. Thorough review so they dont have Conflicts Of Interest, thorough reviews so we know, for instance, is dr. Price going to try to privatize or end medicare when trump campaigned against it . And and are republican colleagues, i dont blame them with this cabinet, have tried to rush it through. Advise and consent does not mean
very easily be confirmed who have
Intelligence he suggestions. Thats the big argument. This has been such a contentious issue we saw the whole drama play out with the House Intelligence Committee and their Top Republican leader devin nunes came, saw the material. Out of the protocol of that committee and them adam schiff, came and looked at the same material. Theres answers about this coming from the white house first from the Deputy Press Secretary who says there was no attempt to keep adam schiff responsible. Not that im aware of at all. I think the bigger point is theres something there. Wed love to come see it which is exactly what we said. It turns out if theres something of substance for him to know about, we want him to
see it. Frarjly i think if there wasnt something of sub stns, he would have walked out that moment from the white house and come out and declared that this was a big waste of time and a big dog and pony show. He didnt do that. He doesnt do that. Its very telling in what he probably saw on friday.
Plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2. 0. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And from selling your Internet Browser history what the heck are you thinking . To rolling back protections for women. How trumps america is taking shape faster than you know. Would you like to make a change, folks . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Amid a steady drip of news about trump worlds connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. The scandal is not what we know, its how we know it. In a throw back to the benghazi days, theyve got a familiar scapegoat. Former National Security adviser
susan rice. I believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. She needs to be brought in and questioned under oath.
This is what we do. We protest when we disagree and i dont think theres any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they dont believe in it. Im not suggesting support tonights nominee but dont plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. And that is where we are. Were at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening. Thanks, my friend. Thank you for joining us at this hour. This is a big important historic news day. Good to have you here. Thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. Antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow Supreme Court justices. Even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. They loved his company. Justice scalia and Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg they shared
It gave no means of tracing this back to the source, but it had a lot of information in it about things that had been happening in trump tower. And it appeared to be from somebody inside the transition or inside trump tower who was concerned about what this person was seeing. And a lot of whats written or conveyed in this letter has sort of come become true over time. Its taken a while for a lot of this stuff to surface, including this detail about this discussion over a back channel or a private channel of communications with moscow. Again i just want to im trying to sort of bend over to read this as charitably as possible. So i mean is it possible that they were setting up lots of different back channels with lots of different foreign leaders . Well, we dont i mean i suppose its possible. Clearly they were in communication and meeting with a lot of leaders, a lot of foreign leaders. Most of them, as you point out,
were coming through the front door, not the back door. The behavior he