michael cohen cannot be trusted. michael cohen is the greatest liar of all time. the judges sharp rebuke to trump s attorney. he was livid, right? he was livid as he should be. and the prosecution tells the story of a conspiracy to corrupt the election. this meeting cannot be overstated. trump was overtly discussing purchasing the story to keep it from being published. this scheme could very well be what got president trump elected. tonight, rachel maddow recaps the closing arguments with lawrence o donnell, alex wagner, jen psaki, and katie phang, all inside the courthouse. plus nicolle wallace, chris hayes, joy reid, ari melber and stephanie ruhle as special coverage of trump on trial begins now. thank you for joining us tonight. we know you have every option in the world for where to follow the news of this remarkable moment in american history. it makes us all the more grout more glad you are with us. i am rachel maddow with chris hayes and nicolle wal
don t. but anthony as human being wasn t born into wealth. he created his own business, was an entrepreneur, created many jobs himself, and i do think they connect on that level. i also believe that this president clearly is different than all other presidents before, and anthony is probably going to be quite effective at interfacing with him, at bringing that team together because he does work with people. he doesn t have people working for him. in my experience i think he s going to do an exceptional job. you mentioned creating his wealth. that was one of the distinctions that he has made in terms of how donald trump couldn t be more different in the past. scaramucci has been critical of the president, calling him a hack politician. listen. he s a hack politician. you re in trouble now. probably going to make elizabeth warren his vice presidential nominee. you have to cut it out now and stop all this crazy rhetoric spinning everybody you re an inherited money dude from quee
better, if they didn t, they shouldn t have been in those positions. reporter: that s right. that has been a hot topic here at the forum. you know, clapper at one point called this sort of a soft tactic by perhaps the russians to see if people within the trump world would accept any kind of help from the russians. and now, fred, as we ve been saying, this is all part of bob mueller s investigation. all right. thank you so much from aspen. appreciate it. we re also covering lots of developments involving the russia and the growing russia investigations. we learned that donald trump jr. and former trump campaign manager paul manafort have struck deals and will be interviewed by the senate judiciary committee behind closed doors. the arrangements will allow the pair to avoid being subpoenaed far high-profile public hearing later on. both men have agreed to provide records to the panel and to be privately interviewed ahead of any public sessions. let s discuss all of this and
county. bring it, donald. bring it. all right. so of course scaramucci was asked of that in the pressroom at the white house yesterday and he says he has apologized to the president for that comment in particular he can t get away it from, he s asked about it every 15 seconds he says. how does scaramucci now craft a relationship with the president after that kind of criticism or has he dope that already and let by gones be by gons? clearly he has done that. they ve known each other for years before those comments were made, and in my estimation, many people evolve, many people change their views and their opinions. he s in this role not just to serve the president, obviously to serve the american people and to facilitate that level of communication. one thing that i would suggest that he do if anthony is listening is keep those cameras on. i think the american people deserve that visibility, and i think those briefings should be on camera as they have been for traditionally over al
at the end of the day the organization takes on the characteristics and integrity of the person at top. very the case with the current administration. i think at the end of the day donald trump wanted another, different, maybe slicker, deceitful person speaking for him on camera and he probably likes this guy s style, maybe he likes his wealth, who really knows. but at the end of the day, it doesn t really matter because the focus here is on the president and his conduct and it doesn t matter how they move around the deck chairs in the staff room. yikes. you used the word deceitful. the president is the messenger in chief, is he not? anthony scaramucci, what role would he really be able to play to help reshape, control the message of president trump when, you know, president trump is at the controls of his tweets as