The rnc. And by the way, just so you know, president s obama and bush, george w. , allowed reporte erer into their first fundraising events. Lets get right to cnn political director, David Chalian, cnns jim acosta, cnn white house correspondent. Kaitlyn collin, senior white house reporter. Cnn political analyst, abby phillip. With us, abby barnes for the hill and coauthor of shattered inside Hillary Clintons doomed campaign. Jim, were going to start with you. The administration facing a major hurdle on health care. The white house refused to hold a live oncamera press briefing hours after the president took to twitter to attack the media. Calling out cnn, the washington post, tthe New York Times among other news organizations as fake news. Is a war on free press . Is that the strategy of this white house . Reporter its definitely far of the strategy over here at the white house, don, and heres why. The president does not have any major legislative achievements to speak of at this point
Political director david stall on, jim acosta, Caitlyn Collins, and abbey phillip. Also with us, amie parnes. So good to have all of you on this evening. Jim, the administration facing a major hurdle on health care and the white house again refused to hold a live, oncamera press briefing hours after the president took to twitter to attack the media. Hes calling out cnn. Hes calling out the Washington Post, the New York Times, among other news organizations as fake news. Is it a war on free press . Is that the strategy of this white house . Its definitely part of the strategy over here at the white house, don. Heres why. The president does not have any major legislative achievements to speak of at this point. Hes trying to get health care passed. He talked about the surprise that is apparently in store for all of us in the coming days, but weve heard the president talk about surprises before. He talked about possible tapes that he had of jim comey. That did not materialize. And this is
But the obstruction of justice investigation may also be the tentacle that reaches deepest into the president s west wing and ensnares senior aides who will be asked to recount certain meetings or events for which there will be multiple people asked to testify to the same events and recall facts and specifics. Its a line of questioning that can result in discrepancies and lead to legal jeopardy for those advisers. The special counsel also clearly focused on the growing list of contacts between Trumps Campaign and russian agents. The Washington Post writing, witnesses questioned by muellers team warn that investigators are asking about other foreign contacts and meetings that have not become public. And to expect a series of new revelations. And finally, on the scope of the mueller probe, the post reports one republican operative in frequent contact with the white house described muellers team working through the staff like pacman. Of course they are worried, says the republican. Anybod
Just about the saddest place on earth tonight, and well have video of the president s uncomfortable visit to that city. But here tonight, were following the Robert Mueller investigation and new word on his investigation. The Washington Post says muellers team is pressing witnesses on roger stone, particularly his interactions with Trump Officials and his emails released by wikileaks, if youll recall, really minutes after the access Hollywood Report dropped. Mueller seems to be focused on whether wikileaks had some activity. And we quote, on friday, muellers team questioned stephen bannon, trumps former chief campaign strategist, about alleged claims stone made privately about email groups allegedly hacked by russian operatives. Investigators have questioned witnesses about events surrounding october 7, 2016. The day the Washington Post published a recording of trump bragging about his genitals less than an hour after the post published its story about trumps crude comments during a tap
Mr. President . Plus new evidence from the National Enquirer that donald trump took part in a criminal conspiracy to get elected. Ive always said, why didnt the National Enquirer get the Pulitzer Prize . And what democrats plan to do about it all with congresswoman Maxine Waters. All that and paul ryans unbelievable stunt to continue american support of the nightmare in yemen. What does a farm bill have to do with the war in yemen . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president s lawyer is going to prison. He is going to prison for crimes he committed in order to get the president elected. Crimes he committed, according to prosecutors, at the president s direction. Heres the ugly truth about what we now know. The president of the United States was surrounded by criminals throughout his campaign. His campaign chair, his fixer, his National Security adviser. The list goes on, perhaps others. He was the beneficiary of at least two separate, distin