court and in the federal right to abortion, the nightmare scenario is playing out across the country as we get new evidence of hope of a growing backlash. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. you know maybe 2022 but we today we have a new in the official investigation into an apparent or possible trump administration s conduct. today, the irs announced it is asked the treasury department inspector general to look into audits of the two leaders of the fbi james comey and andrew mccabe. they were both selected by the irs, supposedly at random for very rare intensive financial audits. to give you a sense of just how rare this invasive random audit is, just one out of 30,000 sickening to taxpayers is selected forward in any given year. now they started an interim investigation the irs is still run by the trump appointee commissioner claims it is ludicrous and untrue to suggest that i arrest officials somehow tout targeted these officials. knowing
the visit during the miss universe pageant and that the russians had filled the episode. and he interrupted very defensively and started talking about, do i look like a guy who needs hookers? a few weeks after that, a troubling first meeting between comey and trump. on january 27, trump summoned comey to of the white house for a one-on-one dinner where he tried to extract a loyalty pledge from the fbi director. he said, i expect loyalty, i need loyalty. and i just stared at him and i had this little narrative with myself inside saying, don t you move, don t you dare move, don t even blink. he said it again, i need loyalty, and i said you will always get honesty from me, and he paused and then he said, honest loyalty as if he was proposing some compromiser deal. and i paused and i said you will get that from.
procedure. we had media that fell for james comey s schick. it s remarkable because only a little prior they had been blaming him for everything that happened to hillary clinton in the loss of the election. that was thrown over the board. if they completely accepted the russian collusion hoax, they treated him as if he were credible. anybody who criticized him, they said, were attacking the rule of law, our institutions. we find out he was the only one attacking the institutions like so many are, going against the constitution. laura: they re rotting the organization from within the organization. they re eating the organization from within. it is imagine if they treated, by the way, hillary in her interview like they treated trump at the trump tower meeting. remember the hillary interview at the justice department the day before the fourth of july. they didn t take any notes. panel, thank you for being here tonight. up next, the man responsible for first bringing comey to governmen
lie to the fbi in a matter of fact, even in an unsworn setting. whether you re under oath or not under oath is not pertinent here. how about a line of questioning between mueller and the president, how would it likely go? that depends, of course, on what mueller is actually focused on here. i think we have a general sense that he s, for purposes of this interview anyway, probably focused a lot on the question of the president s interactions with law enforcement. what people describe as the obstruction of justice basket of matters. look, i mean, there s a billion issues here that he would reasonably want to ask the president about. everything from his interactions with former director comey to, you know, what he knew and when
a grand jury, that he will be interviewed by special counsel s team. we have ken dilanian with us. you just confirmed this reporting by michael schmidt. what more do you know? that s right. so a source close to comey telling us in fact, he did sit down with mueller s team late last year, and of course, ever since james comey testified to congress in dramatic fashion about the memos he wrote detailing what he thought were troubling interactions and conversations with the president of the united states, you knew he was going to be a key witness in the mueller investigation, particularly along the lines of obstruction of justice, because after all, the firing of comey is at the heart of that line of inquiry, as are donald trump s alleged requests to comey to for his loyalty and to go easy on mike flynn. recall that comey says there was a private interaction where trump asked him if he could see his way to dropping the flynn