thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. so grateful. have a great weekend. always so good to see you. have a great show. and welcome to the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. trump s legal woes moved to florida in a most recent attempt to get this classified documents case dismissed. holding a multihour hearing. trump s lawyers arguing jack smith s appointment of special counsel is uns constitutional claims a special counsel must be appointed categorized unprincipled author and contending that the attorney general s ability to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a u.s. attorney is like appointing a shadow government. the judge appeared skeptical of the argument pushing back saying, is that really a realistic risk,s when there are well-defined statutes regarding the attorney general s appointment authority ? special counsel refuting the arguments says it disregards precedent and would have a pernicious consequen
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Fraudulent Accounting Tricks that they use to convince banks to give them more money and Paul Manafort was cced on these emails. There is something here as i read testimony of the case and paged through some of the bits of evidence the government has entered, julia, that there is a desperation that is almost cinematic. You can feel wafting off the emails. That these are people that are scrounging and starved for cash. Desperation is the word, im glad you used that. That is the one word that the prosecution wants to have sticking in the jurors mind when they deliberate. This was a man desperate enough when he works with these shady characters. He would have put his whole family and business at risk because he was so desperate. He got to a point where he might not have been able to pay Health Care Premiums but still wanted to fund the lifestyles and keep the house in the hamptons. A man that was desperate, and wanted to keep up his image. Desperat
And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell In Washington where President Trump is reportedly pressuring his legal team to secure a sitdown with the special counsel. Robert mueller has a new Interview Offer on the table for the president. What personal attorney Rudy Giuliani calls slight improvement by investigators in their offer. Three sources briefed on the matter are telling the New York Times that the mueller team wants to discuss possible coordination with Trump Associates and russians and whether President Trump tried to obstruct adjustmenjustice. The special counsel is willing to accept some written answers from the president but wants the ability to ask followup questions of the president. Peter alexander is at the white house. Bob bauer is here with me. Peter, what do we know so far about this possible Interview Offer . It appears from this that as of now mueller is not really
considering the possibility of pushing it all the way to a subpoena for an unwilling president , whic
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Reporters, Julia Ainsley and tyranny snead. We have been going back and forth. And i thought ken had the exciting stuff. But i think i had the better day. Where exactly Paful Manafort lied. One man who said he was asked to lie by Paul Manafort when he had emails showing that he was asked to lie and say that a residence that Paul Manafort owned in new york was a personal residence for the manaforts and not a Business Rental as it was. He wanted him to lie because he was trying to change his financial situation to get more loans. Then we saw another tax
preparer, cindy laporta. And she, there is a reason she had immunity because she said she was disturbed and she eventually drew a line and stopped doing this. But never wanted to report it because she didnt want to open up her firm to litigation. There is a pattern, rick gates and Paul Manafort worked hand in glove. It was not rick gates. And that also time and time again, Paul Manafort both person
Watching shes like them too. Actually all of you guys, phil rucker, reverend al, jess, john, you guys are all goats of a way and my goat we mean the greatest of all time. That does it for this hour. I was in for nicolle wallace. She will be back next week and you all will be glad. Speaking of g. O. A. T. S, mtp daily starts now. Heilemann, you got me to quickly google the men who stare at goats. Do you remember that movie . I thought it was going to be extraordinarily funny and, well, i cant quote a single line from it other than the title. I cant believe you actually that is what this made you think of but im glad that it did and thats the kind of movie that you are the ultimate netflix customer. John heilemann, i think of you as one of the men who stare at goats. Have a great weekend, chuck. Thank you, sir. If its friday, is the president feeling the heat . Tonight, President Trumps theater of the absurd of the. Now were being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax, okay . Is manaf