Intelligence committee finally dropped. The big question tonight is, will another shoe drop . The president today declassifying the explosive memo, spearheaded by devin nunes, formerly of the trump transition team. Its the most explicit official republican effort yet to try to undermine the fbi and mueller russia investigation. It was released despite warnings from the president s own handpicked fbi director and Justice Department officials. The president touting it as evidence of antitrump bias at the fbi. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. Are we on the eve of a saturday night massacre . Will President Trump fire his Deputy Attorney general rosenstein, who is named in the memo as having approved one of the surveillance warrants of a Trump Campaign adviser . Ros rosenstein supervised things, too. Do you have confidence in him. You figure
Nunes, formerly of the Trump Transition Team. Its the most explicit official republican effort yet to try to undermine the fbi and mueller russia investigation. It was released despite warnings from the president s own handpicked fbi director and Justice Department officials. The president touting it as evidence of antitrump bias at the fbi. I think its a disgrace whats happening in our country. When you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves. Are we on the eve of a saturday night massacre . Will President Trump fire his Deputy Attorney general rosenstein, who is named in the memo as having approved one of the surveillance warrants of a Trump Campaign adviser . Rosenstein supervised things, too. Do you have confidence in him . You figure that one out. Do you still have confidence in rosenstein . You figure that one out. A ringing lack of endorsement, especially from a president who has already fired fbi di
Count on in this case. The lawyer and judge trying to sort through that criminal case in new york and the civil case here in los angeles. The lawyer, Brent Blakely for mr. Cohen, said he needed this day. This day was absolutely imperative in this case because he felt his client could be indicted in the next 90 days. He then motioned toward Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, and thats what mr. Avenatti has been saying as well. The judge kind of shut it down and said, look, i know whats been said in the media, i know there is a lot of drama, but i want all that stuff in the media left in the media, and i only want matters relative to this court discussed here. There was one other thing that avenatti said that was interesting so far in this hearing that is still ongoing, saying that even if Michael Cohen took the fifth amendment right and this is a lot of what theyve been discussing in the courtroom today, why Michael Cohen has not declared definitively that he would take th
The former cia chief firing back in an interview last night. The other people in socalled enemys list is another example of mr. Trump trying to frighten and intimidate others, i can tell you having worked in National Security and Intelligence Community for many years these are not the type of people who will be bullied or intimidated someone the likes of mr. Trump. Fox news security correspondent Jennifer Griffin with muff more. Eboni, democrats have called it enemys list, admiral navy seal who saw bin laden raid compare today mccarthy era tactics, in an interview with Rachel Maddow speak at length after having security clearance revoked. Theres been a health cry from many intelligence professionals not to support me but to support the principle that security clearances are something thats very, very solemn and sacred and they never ever should be used for political purposes either to grant friends for clearances or revoke clearances of your critics. Among those now in the president s
And Donald Trumps emergency visit to texas to help ted cruz. I call him lyin ted. Donald, youre a sniveling coward. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There is a reason that the president of the United States has been waging an allout public war against an obscure career civil sevrvant because h reportedly had information in the summer of 2016 that russian intelligence believed, quote, they had trump over a barrel. The Civil Servant in question is Longtime Justice Department lawyer named bruce ohr. Unless you watch a lot of fox news, you probably dont know anything about him. Ohr has spent a decadeslong career prosecuting violent gangs and organized crime, developing a special focus on russian organized crime. For all those years since he first became a prosecutor 27 years ago, ohr was basically just a guy who went to work every day doing his job, investigating some pretty dangerous people on behalf of the u. S. Government. Until he ended up involved in the special counsels ru