Criminal counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, witness tampering, and five counts of making false statements. Today, White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders, who held her first press briefing in 41 days, was asked if the president was considering a pardon for stone. Heres what she said. Is the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone . Im not aware of that. I havent had any conversations regarding that matter. Will you discuss it with him and let us know . Im not going to get into that at this point, but if need be, well let you know. Just to follow up, can you guarantee the president wont pardon roger stone . Again, im not going to talk about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. Today, mueller has accused six of trumps advisers or associates of lying multiple times to federal officials. Raising the question of why they keep lying. The whitaker comment today comes moments before the House Intelligence Committee announced Michael Cohen, president s personal lawyer
Will be is how we talk about what we stand for. Why whats happening on the ground is different than what youre hearing. And the aoc effect. The only way we are going to get out of this situation is by choosing to be courageous. How a new generation of democrats is fundamentally changing the policy debate. There was a time in this country where the top marginal tax rate was over 90 . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. Day 17 of the government shutdown. The president is just stuck in a corner hes painted himself into as weve watched and he doesnt know what he wants. In fact, here is the thing. No one knows what the government is being shut down over. By this, here is what i mean. We know the money, they want 5. 6 billion for depending on which day it is the wall, steel slats or Border Security generally. Here is the actual appropriation the house passed just before the end of the year to direct public funds for the project we were promised mexico would p