And i asked him, when are we going to know more about this meeting . And it answer was soon. And i pressed him. And he said soon is soon. So it turned out, soon was today. Yeah, we have picked up some really interesting elements of this story today. Yes. I mean, the sort of lurid and provocative allegations in this store were oh, interesting. Lurid and interesting allegations. Maybe those are publicity stunts. Maybe they are wild claims denied by everybody involved that is just designed to make us Pay Attention for a second. When we got confirmation this afternoon of the qatari official being yeah, that was me. I was there to meet with trump transition officials, that all of the sudden made this a very serious story. And they were trying to deny it yesterday. Not exactly denying it, but not confirming it. And by the way, thank you for that lesson about that basketball league. Because i didnt know any of the rules or all i knew is ice cube is involved. Thats all i knew. And now i know e
Earlier in your hour about the meeting at trump tower that he had revealed images of who was there december 2016, and he asked that question in a tweet about why was Ahmed Al Rumaihi meeting in trump tower. He told us what he could about it. And i asked him, when are we going to know more about this meeting . And it answer was soon. And i pressed him. And he said soon is soon. So it turned out, soon was today. Yeah, we have picked up some really interesting elements of this story today. Yes. I mean, the sort of lurid and provocative allegations in this store were oh, interesting. Lurid and interesting allegations. Maybe those are publicity stunts. Maybe they are wild claims denied by everybody involved that is just designed to make us Pay Attention for a second. When we got confirmation this afternoon of the qatari official being yeah, that was me. I was there to meet with trump transition officials, that all of the sudden made this a very serious story. And they were trying to deny it
The piece claims the president wants better tv lawyers to represent him on cable news. Remember, giuliani told the New York Post when he joined the legal team almost a month ago he hoped the investigation would end in a week or two. Well, not quite. Remember when ty cobb reportedly said it should wrap up by last thanksgiving . Then the end of 2017 . Then january or so . Well, that didnt happen either. In fact, this week marks a full year that Robert Muellers investigation has been methodically winding its way through mr. Trumps inner circle. President trump calls it a witch hunt but again, let us remind you President Trumps former Deputy Campaign manager, former Campaign Foreign policy advisor, and former National Security advisor have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with the special counsel. An affiliated lawyer is already serving time in prison. Donald trumps former Campaign Chairman has been indicted and is awaiting trial. And 13 russian nationals and three Russian Companies have
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Tonight a new detail that might help explain why our America First president is innics publicly focused on rescuing a Chinese Telecommunications Company Whose products our own National Security agencies called major Cyber Security threat. Youll remember this was the tweet sunday morning. President xi of china and i are working together to give massive chinese phone company zte a way to get back into business fast. Too many jobs in china lost. Commerce department has been instructed to get it done. Get it done, get zte back into business fast which is weird because it was the Commerce Department that just last month barred american tech firms from doing business with zte for a period of seven years. So why now is the president so gung ho to save a company his own administration punished for violating u. S. Sanctions against iran and north korea . Its hard to believe he cares about saving chinese jobs. A real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to
Up california . And a fleet of reports about the president s personal fixer, Michael Cohen from talk hes losing his lawyers to rorts that hes about to flip. Lets get to it. We begin with the news about President Trumps fixe according to the wall street journal and others, lawyers for President Trumps longtime attorney Michael Cohen are set to bail on him by the end of this week. The jou reports that cohen has not decided whether he will cooperate with prosecutors. The split is reportedly going to happen after his lawyers finish reviewing millions of documents that the feds seized a couple months ago. Cohens lawyers are deciding which documents they believe or theyre insisting should fall under Attorney Client privilege. The judge set a deadline for this friday. Cohens lawyers are out once the review is complete. So far, cohen has not commented on any of this. At the moment, hes not charged with any crimes. Theres word he has some serious financial problems. Analysts say his next attorn