Here. And the same cold questions about just what happened during the campaign. Russia, if youre listening, i hope youre able to find the 30,000 emails. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are not even one month into the Trump Administration and already a major scandal exploding in washington, d. C. Last night, president Trumps National security advisor Michael Flynn, who even before this scandal was intensely controversial known for his bigoted views of islam and muslims, handed in his resignation after just 24 days on the job. Today we got the Trump Administrations version of events. The president asked flynn to resign not because of what flynn did which the white house says it has no problem with but because he had lied about it to members of the administration. The level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. The president was very concerned that general flynn had misle
Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We are not even one month into the Trump Administration and already a major scandal exploding in washington, d. C. Last night, president Trumps National security advisor Michael Flynn, who even before this scandal was intensely controversial known for his bigoted views of islam and muslims, handed in his resignation after just 24 days on the job. Today we got the Trump Administrations version of events. The president asked flynn to resign not because of what flynn did which the white house says it has no problem with but because he had lied about it to members of the administration. The level of trust between the president and general flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change. The president was very concerned that general flynn had misled the Vice President and others. Heres what happened. On december 29, then president obama announced sanctions against russia for russias alleged hacking of democratic email accounts
North korea. The secretary of state in china today after a twoday visit to south korea where he said all options are on the table for dealing with the north and its Nuclear Weapons program. The winners ask losers in the president s budget proposal. Even some republican lawmakers say certain parts of the budget simply will not go. A look at which of the proposed cuts has lawmakers on both sides concerned. All right. Beer going to start here, though, with the health care showdown. The white house is trying to shore up republican support for their obama care replacement bill. They do not have much time. A final vote may come as early as thursday in the house while republicans remain shar sharply divide odd where to support it or not. The president met with a key group of conservative lawmakers friday saying he convinced some to vote yes. Well, today mike pence made his pitch directly to the people traveling to jacksonville, florida, in front of the Small Business owners as well as everyda
Recent high. Stocks bounced back from there. And now were just bouncing around. In fact, the main story today is that volatility is clearly back in the market. In fact, if you look at the volatility index it has hit the highest level in about two years. Now, look, i know this looks scary on the screen. But many investors say this is a perfectly normal thing to happen. If you really think about it, we had a stock market rally for eight years now. And the markets are overdue in many metrics for a correction here. And you layer on top of that a very strong jobs report which we had last week that showed wages were increasing, that stoked fears that the fed would actually raise rates faster than anticipated. And that would drive some investment actually out of bonds and into other assets like sorry out of equities and into other assets like bonds. So thats whats going on here. Look, it is anybodys guess as to what happens from here. We could see another drop. I spoke to some investors today
Election happens. Our best allies in the intelligence world, alliy ies w which we have super close, trusting, collaborative relationship, our allies, our intelligence allies start reporting to us through multiple streams over a period of months a whole bunch of different instances of People Associated with one of the president ial campaigns having contacts with russians, with russian officials, with people linked to russian president Vladimir Putin. At the same time, you have access to american intelligence intercepts of russian officials talking with each other about their contacts with that president ial campaign. At the same time, the u. S. Intelligence Community Starts to come to the conclusion that beyond our usual spy versus spy stuff with russia, russia does appear to be interfering in our election in a deliberate, organized way and trying to hurt the opposing campaign. So, imagine you are the National Security adviser while all this is happening. You know all of this is happeni