At todays sessions hearing. The equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. Major holes in tillersons sanctuary. Were we lobbying before or against . Im a germaphobe, believe me. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There are just nine days until donald trump becomes president of the United States. Today we were inundated with news, much of it disturbing, about what to expect when he takes office. In fact there was so much news today it is, frankly, impossible for us to fully cover what we saw and heard, which may well have been the point. We are going to aggressively cover the issues we have deemed most important and they are big ones. Among them, the President Elect evoking nazi germany to characterize u. S. Intelligence agencies, offering kind words to the russians who the Intelligence Community believe hacked the dnc and clinton campaign. Trumps Secretary Of State pick exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson possibly lying under oath at his Conf
few thousand dollars from another friend for the same child s education. so it s totally unclear why he didn t disclose this and he didn t respond to our questions about that. one of the questions i have, can supreme court justices take anything under the current standards as long as they disclose it? they don t know what cases might come before the court. yeah, i know, it s a great question. i have friends who work in the government who say they have to be careful about letting somebody buy them lunch. you know, members of congress absolutely could not take gifts like this. if they could, they would have to go some sort of pre-approval process with an ethics committee. i think a larger issue here is really the supreme court, there is really no rules besides the disclosure rules they have to abide by. that s kind of the larger theme here. one the whethics attornies sd it s outside the norm. yeah, the former chief ethics lawyer in the george w. bush white house said if he had
entire supreme court, and i m contractually obliged to say that if anyone has information about other justices, they should get in touch. you know, seriously, we haven t we just haven t found anything like this relationship between crow and thomas with any of the other justices at this point. we re talking about a billionaire political donor who is funding, you know, multiple aspects of the life of a justice. this private school tuition, which we the story we broke today. lavish vacations on his yacht. private yet use for 20 years. harlan owns the house where thomas mother is apparently living rent free. we spoke to the chief ethics lawyer for the george w. bush white house, richard painter, who said that, you know, basically never seen anything like this. when he was in the government, if you had a staffer taking this
how this testimony came about. her former lawyer was a lawyer the chief ethics lawyer at the white house. what does it say to you she felt she needs to change lawyers? this is a classic thing that happens in the investigation of any large, any substantial organization. whether it s a company under investigation for smfraud or a mafia family. the first sign that someone is starting to break ranks is that they get a lawyer who s outside the circle of confidence and she was right to get her an independent lawyer because that s when she started filling out her story. vice chair cheney ended miss hutchinson s hearing showing statements provided by witnesses, again, one of which sources say was miss hutchinson herself that may show attempts to influence testimony. you spoke about the communications, text messages, e-mail to which the committee
repeating because she happened to overhear it. jeff, i do want to ask you, though, about the what sources say to cnn that cassidy hutchinson was one of the witnesses who received some sort of attempt to influence her testimony. i want to play a clip from the former white house spokeswoman on new day this morning. cassidy came to me and said there s more i want to share with a committee. i put her in touch with congresswoman cheney. she got a new lawyer and that s how this testimony came about. her former lawyer was a lawyer the chief ethics lawyer at the white house. what does it say to you that she felt she needed to change lawyers? this is a classic thing that happens in the investigation of any large, any substantial organization. whether it s a company under investigation for fraud or a mafia family. the first sign that someone is starting to break ranks is that they get a lawyer who s outside