Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. General under president clinton and former federal prosecutor. Julia, i will have you play a few roles for me tonight because you do also cover the Justice Department. Jeff sessions in the room with the president when he is told that Robert Mueller is going to be Special Counsel, according to bloomberg news. Jeff sessions offered his Rec Resignation in that moment. I think the idea that Robert Mueller had been appointed was pretty obvious right there. He saw the writing on the wall, that it was because he had recused himself from this investigation that this had been allowed to happen, that Rod Rosenstein was allowed to appoint this Special Counsel. The way we all see it and the logical way to see it is the appointment of Robert Mueller was because of the firing of jim comey. It was actually the president s decision to fire jim comey, not Jeff Sessions decision. But knowing donald trump and i
Last night he dropped this bombshell that you need photo id to buy grocery. That does it for me. Ari is going to be in tonight for rachel maddow. Chris matthews and hardball starts right now. Caught in the swamp, lets play hard ball. Acting like a ships captain in a typhoon. Calling the investigation a witch hunt, the media, the enemy of the people. Good evening, i am Chris Matthews and steaming swamp like
washington that has just been drenched with rainfall. It is wet in this town and steaming. President trump is waging an increasingly desperate battle. Case in point is the president s cavalier tweet in which he calls on the Justice Department yesterday to terminate the russian probe all together. Quote Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this witch hunt right now. One of the most overt message that president has taken to date to shut down the probe. Trying to protect the president , trumps allies are trying to downplay the significance of his tweeting. Saying President Trump i
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Another round of Election Sabotage is underway. And the trump official who says his warnings about the psychological damage of separated families was ignored. Good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes. Paul manafort is a shrewd liar so says the prosecution in the Opening Statement in the trial. Opening statement and even the testimony of first witness hours ago, Paul Manafort facing 18 counts. Bank fraud, tax evaluation, and conspiracy charges. Work with should note which predated his duties on the campaign of donald trump. And zoe fillman. I wrote down the word astonishing greed. We knew the outline of this tale from the indictment and court documents. But another thing to hear it lay out in court. This scheme Whereby Manafort was earning 16 million. But instead of taking the money in a wire transfer, he concocted this elaborate scheme to accept it in loans which werent really loans all to evade taxes. And interestingly, when his client was
News coverage is provided. Pretty much even is a big deal and its actually a very interesting district, you have welloff Suburbs Of Columbus and you have places where i spent some time and its a former Industrial Power house thats on hard times right now, the average income there is about half of what it is in the rest of america, so, you know, its reliably republican district with a lot of people that have different concerns and, yeah, the republicans are very worried right now and his Approval Rating in this district is 46 approved, 49 disapprove and, of course, as you know, midterms are often a referendum on the president and so its a very tight race and i think republicans are very nervous because this is the last special election before the midterms and so everybody in the country is watching this race to figure out prediction of what will happen come november. Is it risky for the president to go in there, what if the republican loses, will people be eager in washington to blame t
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The senator from maryland. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. What do you make of that quite unexpected News Conference today . It did seem Like Full Court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasnt as confident that we know exactly what were supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. First, its good to be with you. Youre exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. Putin, the russian government, that was behind that. They acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. No evidence that theyre doing that yet, but they are certainly exploring that. That was very clear. And they laid o