News coverage is provided. Original recording and have an expert look at it. That is always a possibility but i think to do that, you need a forensic analyst and you will need the original tape. Eric and mr. Cohen has been saying the president did know about the meeting. Maybe there were some tapes about that. It prompted them to say this to Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this morning. Pointing out that Michael Cohen in the past had said the president did not know previously about the meeting with donald junior and the russian lawyer and others. Heres what the senator had to say. When it comes to Michael Cohen you should be very suspicious of anything he says. He is on the hot seat. Hes looking at going to jail. People like him are subject to making things up. I can tell you this. Michael cohen has already appeared before Congress Talking about a lot of things. This idea that he told trump about the russian meeting before it happened, to us is very much new news. Eric so if
Were looking forward to that the beat, 6 00 p. M. Eastern week nights. But more importantly the Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening, ari. Thanks. Much appreciated. Thanks for joining us at home. It is friday. So that means the news has again a little nuts again. I feel like there is nothing predictable about American News cycles anymore other than the fact that the cuckoo pops out of the clock reliably every friday night. Thats one thing you can count on. Its friday. Things are nuts. Tonight is no exception. Tonight the cuckoo has popped out of the clock. And over the course of this hour, actually, were waitsing for the next big thing to happen on two very important stories. Ill just tell you flatout, we expect to be covering developments in both of these stories over the course of this evening, potentially into the overnight hours tonight. As i speak right now, its 9 00 p. M. Eastern, and this hour is going to be crucial. Republicans have just issue
Growing on the presidency. Dire warning from a man who would know On The Last Day of the kavanaugh hearing. There is now a cancer on the presidency . Yes, i would agree with that. All in starts now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. 60 days from the midterm election. Danger threatens Donald Trumps presidency from both within and without. 4 including tonight a report that his private business empire, a thing that defines him above all else is in the cross hairs of a federal probe. Inside the white house the president and closest aides are reportedly turning the west wing upside down to try to identify the anonymous author of the Op Ed Claiming to be part of the resistance inside the Trump Administration protecting the country from an unfit president. Asked by a reporter if he thinks the Attorney General should investigate who wrote it, the president responded he does. Claiming the oped is a matter
of national security. The reporter did not ask which law the president thinks
Congratulations. That is how fox reports this sunday, september 9. I am jon scott, thank you for joining us. Fox news sunday is coming up next. I am chris wallace. President trump calls on the Justice Department to investigate who wrote that essay in the New York Times describing resistance inside his administration. For the sake of our National Security, the New York Times should publish his name at once the one we will discuss the onetwo punch of the anonymous call him. Should all top officials take a Lie Detector Test and would you agree to take one . And reports of white house disarray in Bob Woodwards new book. What does it mean for
the Trump Administration . We will ask the Vice President of the United States, mike pence. Brett kavanaugh showdown with democrats at his Supreme Court nominee hearing. You are asking for a Lifetime Appointment to the highest court in the land. Chris we will ask chris coons if his party can block kavanaugh. Barack obama steps back into the political a
Lawyer, Michael Cohen accepted his own fate in a deal with prosecutors. The Michael Cohen case thats shaking the political and legal worlds tonight. Michael cohen devoted more than a decade of his professional life to being the president s attorney and goto fixer. He once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. I said with Michael Cohen and he told me he could barely walk by trump tower because it made him so sad. To look at a place where they spent a decade together working side by side. Less than two years into the president s term, their once close relationship turned to mutual hostility. Things have shifted. I think he couldnt walk by trump tower now because he would get so angry. Cohens plea deal followed months of controversy. The media reported extensively on cohens alleged Hush Money Payments to a porn star and a maybe model. Whose claims of affairs with donald trump might have few people who knew Michael Cohen as a young man who would predicted he would one day be embro