Thinking isnt a guns situation. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One week after we learned Robert Mueller had brought indictments against two top trump officials, announced a guilty plea for a third, all eyes on a former highranking official in the Trump Administration itself, Michael Flynn. A man who spent 24 days in the white house as the president S National Security adviser. Nbc news exclusively reporting that shmueler now has enough evidence to file charges in the investigation into flynn and his son Michael Flynn jr. , according to multiple sources familiar with muellers investigation. To be clear nbc news is not reporting who might be charged, only that there is sufficient evidence to file charges in that investigation. Three sources tell nbc news that investigators plan to soon speak with multiple witnesses to gather more information about flynns lobbying work, including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his
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with the russians to help the trump team. and he even was asking the trump campaign what he should say when he was over there in russia. and just like george papadopoulos, he was trying to arrange a meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. now this is a theme that we ve seen throughout the campaign team. not just papadopoulos. remember, felix seder back in december 2016 is telling michael cohen if we can get donald trump and putin together, we can engineer this and make our boy president there is a theme of trying to get dirt on hillary clinton, trying to connect donald trump and putin. and of course failing to disclose it to anyone. there is a reporting today saying there is a bit of a split in the diplomatic corps about the president s upcoming meeting on the side lanes of a summit with vladimir putin. they re scheduled to meet face-to-face. obviously there are some who feel that obviously this is a nation that we have a lot of different issues with. we have to talk to them
into it. this is a mental health problem at the highest level. it s a very, very sad event. these are great people, and a very, very sad event. but that s the way i view it. in the wake of mass atrocities, the president appears to have two modes. if the assailant is muslim, the president hardly waits until the bodies are counted to politicize and to criticize and to hector and to blame. and if the assailant is not, well, then, nothing, or something like that. compare his rhetoric this morning to his reaction to last week s violence in new york. we need quick justice and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke and it s a laughingstock. mr. president, do you want the assailant from new york sent to gitmo? mr. president? i would certainly consider that, yes.
involved with certain nations. and i don t even know exactly what it was in particular. but there was a point at which we just felt paul would be better off. because we don t want to have any potential conflicts. and if there was a conflict, i don t want to be involved any conflicts, even though it was i could have kept him longer, i don t think anybody would have complained. but we don t want to have any potential conflicts of interest at all. no potential conflicts of interest. it s kind of weird, right? it s not at all what we ve seen from this president so far. we had the head of the ethics walter shaub leave because he was so concerned about the conflicts in the administration there doesn t seem to be much interest in clearing that up. in fact i think his assets have not yet been moved to really a blind trust like they should be. so that s hard to believe. you know, i think a lot of the things we re hearing from the president right now are hard to believe. he has been going
well, i would say among republicans, it s still it s still the case that most republicans are supporting the president. i mean, you see that i think 64% of americans are now saying that they believe the russia investigation is important and that i think there may have been a serious wrongdoing there. but then there is 32% that are in the camp that say no, we don t think it s that important, and it shouldn t be investigated. my hunch is that that 32% is also 32% that supports president trump. these are probably people who are consuming conservative media that is not just conservative media, but conservative media that has really become trump media. it s less conservative. it s just trump media. and so they re receiving a steady diet of lies and misinformation about the importance of this and about the progress of the investigation and they re receiving disinformation about the alleged wrongdoing of trump s political opponents. it s very hard. those people will still skeptical. i thi