And never works in hindsight. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Having all but secured the nomination of a party that struggled for years to engage and win over women voters, especially in president ial election years, donald trump spent his first weekend as the gops presumptive nominee leaning in for lack of a better term to the war of women. One women in particular, like any with a long career in public life, Hillary Clinton has an extensive record with plenty of material for possible substantive criticism. That does not appear to be trumps approach. Instead hes making his attack on clintons gender arg guing she is effectively an affirmative action case and wouldnt have reached these heights if her gender hand offered a leg up. Shes effectively playing the womens card. If she didnt play the womens card she would have no chance, zero winning. And he says she should be held liable for her husbands conduct including her own conduct. There was nobody wo
Frankly its going to go up. The department of justice officially goes in on North Carolina. The state sanctioned discrimination, Never Looks Good and never works in hindsight. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Having all but secured the nomination of a party that struggled for years to engage and win over women voters, especially in president ial election years, donald trump spent his first weekend as the gops presumptive nominee leaning in for lack of a better term to the war of women. One women in particular, like any with a long career in public life, Hillary Clinton has an extensive record with plenty of material for possible substantive criticism. That does not appear to be trumps approach. Instead hes making his attack on clintons gender arg guing she is effectively an affirmative action case and wouldnt have reached these heights if her gender hand of r offered a leg up. Shes effectively playing the womens card. If she didnt play the womens car
Struggled for years to engage and win over women voters, especially in president ial election years, donald trump spent his first weekend as the gops presumptive nominee leaning in for lack of a better term to the war of women. One women in particular, like any with a long career in public life, Hillary Clinton has an extensive record with plenty of material for possible substantive criticism. That does not appear to be trumps approach. Instead hes making his attack on clintons gender arg guing she is effectively an affirmative action case and wouldnt have reached these heights if her gender hand offered a leg up. Shes effectively playing the womens card. If she didnt play the womens card she would have no chance, zero winning. And he says she should be held liable for her husbands conduct including her own conduct. There was nobody worse, nobody, than bill clinton with women. Nobody. In this history of politics, Hillary Clintons husband abused women more than any man that we know of i
Guy, and he probably would not be the best person for this job. You know, this comes as he was considered on a very, very short list, probably a handful of people being considered for the position. We talked more about it. Heres more about what he had to say. You know, i think at age 63, you know, i know what im good at, and i feel like im better suited for other kinds of things. I think there are probably better suited for this particular job for them. Reporter one of the things that hes actually said that he could be better suited for is another job in the trump administration. One possibly being secretary of state. I asked him specifically about that. He would not say specifically that hes angling for secretary of state, but he said there are things that could do well and actually more in line with his own interests. Of course, he is chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, which is one reason why folks were hoping he would get picked, because he does have the Foreign Pol
What would be an historic tiebreaking vote. This is happening because two republicans have already said that theyre going to vote no on devos, senators Lisa Murkowski of alaska and suesan collins of maine. Is there a third one that would vote no and particularly sink this nomination . A lot of it had to do with how she performed at the confirmation hearing she had. It raised a lot of questions in peoples minds. Phone calls, emails, mail, officers have been deluged with all of this. Looks like shes holding steady. There could be a lastminute x factor. That would be a major embarrassment for Mitch Mcconnell but also set in the broader set of general democratic opposition to cabinet nominees. Its going to be a week back and forth like this whether or not betsy devos is confirmed. Mike pence set to get to the hill in just about an hour from now. In the meantime we are monitoring that paul ryan press conference. We want to get to the other big story of the day, that President Trump executiv