Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Spent an entire week at one of his golf course. It should not be that hard to find out whose interest the president is serving if own the congressional leaders would say subpoena his tax returns. More likely to support a candidate who promises to be a check on the president. Fresh off another round of encouraging Election Results on tuesday, democrats have a message of their own, they are in the words of nancy pelosi clean up corruption. What does that mean . Cleaning up corruption. How do you do it . We have to make sure that we can get big money out of politics. What we have seen is dark money
risk of not getting kavanaugh confirmed. It is not a matter it is a matter of timing. That sounds like they support in impeaching Rod Rosenstein but not doing it now. The plot which is to go after Rod Rosenstein but allow the senate to jam the Supreme Court justice. Do that work and then return after the midterm elections to try to jam up Rod Rosenstein.
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Youve got Michael Cohen, of course, guilty. These are individuals who were incredibly close to the president of the United States of america, and weve got to get an answer to the question, what did the president know . When did he know it . When this crime spree was taking place all around him. Weve got to clean up corruption with this administration, and washington, d. C. , restore our democracy for the people. We played maya some sound bites of those that are coming out and defending the president , saying this is not a crime. Some to maybe some extent are saying, yeah, maybe its legally a crime, but its like a smaller crime, a 12k3450ermisdemeanor. What is your read of what Michael Cohen did . Is it significant or not, is it being blown out of the proportion for political reasons . Its extremely significant because it goes directly to whether or not a candidate, donald trump, directed
attacked it s an attack on everyone. how could you join under those circumstances and not put the other nato alliance members including the u.s. at war with russia? sure. and a lot of observers say that ukraine has a lot of housecleaning to do, for example, strengthening democratic institutions, cleaning up corruption. there is a lot of arms as you know, a lot of money coming in here. but, look, the other thing we have to keep on our minds, jim, is that russia watches very carefully what nato is doing, lots of talk revamping nato, creating these so-called mobility hubs, but it s well-known that it still takes a long, long time to mobilize nato. bridges, tunnels, paperwork, all that stuff. so that s something that everyone has to keep in mind as well. well, the other irony here is that ukraine s army is arguably the best equipped and by many measures much bigger than several armies of nato members today. it s certainly earned its keep so far. let s talk about another issue
ukraine or could be involved. the idea that it s rudy giuliani who has any role whatsoever is sort of it just defies logic. the state department, the department of defense have both certified that the ukraine had made meaningful progress on cleaning up corruption. the end of the poroshenko regime meant we d still moved even further toward cleaning up the corruption. what this is, is a very itty-bitty fig leaf for them to related to the one guy that donald trump fears the most in the general election. that strikes me as less than a coincidence at this point. again, everyone seems to acknowledge there s a huge corruption in ukraine as there is in many places in former soviet union territories in eastern europe. the fact that he s reportedly,
so what is nancy pelosi trying to impeach the president on, martha? i ve asked that question even to the majority leader, steny hoyer martha: i think it has to do with the biden section of it, which i was just discussing with kellyanne, where he brings up this issue of potential corruption and says it looks horrible, you should really look into that, he says, to the president of ukraine, from whom he is withholding military aid and says you really should look into that, joe biden situation. the top candidate running against him right now. joe biden is the one who withheld the billion dollars, let s be clear about that. even the president of the ukraine yesterday said that there was no coercion, there was no any kind of attempt to withhold money. he said they had a good conversation, as kellyanne said it was a conversation or president trump was congratulating zelinski on winning kind of a long shot race. he wasn t supposed to win and he won on a platform of cleaning up