And a look at the good, the bad and the ugly on the latest on the Clinton Foundation when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes with donald trump under new management trying to make him over as a serious candidate, we are now witnessing something weve never seen before in this campaign. Trump actively struggling to reconcile, the provocative slogans his diehard slogans love with the policy details that might reassure voters at large hes not too big of a risk. On the signature issue of his campaign, trump has painted himself into an extremely tight corner. He already canceled his big immigration policy speech scheduled for thursday amidst blowback over reports he might be softening his stance and considering legal stance for some undocumented immigration. Now the man who launched his campaign, slurring mexican immigrants who called for a wall on our southern border, which mexico will pay for, and depicts undocumented immigrants in this country as a lawless
With clinton while she led the state department donated to her Family Charity or pledged to its programs. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as 156 million. At least 40 donated more than 100,000 each and 20 gave more than 1 million each. Today, trumps running mate called it quote, further evidence of pay to play politics. Clintons spokesman responded to the a. P. Report late today. Brian falin said this story relies on utterly flawed data, cherry picked a limited subject subset to give a portrayal of how often she crossed paths with individuals connected to charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation. The data does not account for more than half her tenure as secretary and omitted meetings she took with World Leaders, let alone countless others she took with countless government officials. Thats an interesting comment but it doesnt challenge the actual numbers. We will get to that. Anyway, yesterday trump called for a special prosecutor to look into her actions. No issue be
Petrifi petrified ra. You cant be petrified. Thank you, kanye. Good evening from new york. Im joy read in for chris hayes. Donald trumps efforts to clean up the mess made by his new personal attorney Rudy Guiliani have managed to make things worse. Speaking to reporters this morning, the president suggested that giuliani didnt know what he was talking about when he said trump reimbursed mike cohen for his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Ill tell you what, rudy is a great guy but he just started a day ago. But he really has his heart into it. Hes working hard. Hes learning the subject matter. And hes going to be issuing a statement, too. But he is a great guy. He knows its a witch hunt. Thats what he knows pep started yesterday. Hell get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. Well, that flies in the face of what giuliani told nbc news last night. Youre not going to see daylight between the president and me. Trump today distanced himselves from that Giul
He was talking about when he said trump reimbursed mike cohen for his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Ill tell you what, rudy is a great guy but he just started a day ago. But he really has his heart into it. Hes working hard. Hes learning the subject matter. And hes going to be issuing a statement, too. But he is a great guy. He knows its a witch hunt. Thats what he knows pep started yesterday. Hell get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. Well, that flies in the face of what giuliani told nbc news last night. Youre not going to see daylight between the president and me. Trump today distanced himselves from that Giuliani Media blitz that was while designed to clear the president of potential Campaign Finance violations seems to have increased his legal exposure. That was money that was paid by his lawyer the way i would do out of his law firm funds or whatever funds, doesnt matter. The president reimbursed that over a period of several months. Imagi
Hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. One of the authors of that story, matt apuzzo, will join us in just a moment. He and his colleagues writing tonight, quote, President Trump knew about a sixfigure payment that michael d. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard air force one in april according to two people familiar with the arrangement. It was not immediately clear when mr. Trump learned of the payment, which mr. Cohen made in october 2016 at a time when news Media Outlets were poised to pay her for her story about an alleged affair with mr. Trump in 2006. But three people close to the matter said mr. Trump knew that mr. Cohen had succeeded in keeping the allegations from becoming public at the time the president denied it. The president has spent the last several hours speaking out, in particular going into damage control mode trying to clean up comments that Rudy Giuliani made this wee