Plus, is Michael Bloomberg about to make his first debate stage in nevada . And on this president s day this is the crap we have to put up with. A look at how the decisions candidates make can shape generations to come. Man, im going to fight for working people. Come on, man. All in starts now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Im joy reid, in for chris hayes. Well, it has now been approximately one year since donald trump got his roy cohn. One year and three days since bill barr was sworn in for his second stint as attorney general of the United States. The department of justice is supposed to be nonpartisan. Thats foundational to our entire system of democracy. But during his second time around, the d. O. J. Has been deeply partisan under attorney general barr. In just one year, barr has lied about the contents of the Mueller Report to spin it trumps way. He backed trumps absurd claim that the government had spied on the trump campaign. And he forced justice officials to defy congr
A look at how the decisions candidates make can shape generations to come. Man, im going to fight for working people. Come on, man. All in starts now. Good evening from washington, d. C. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. Well, it has now been approximately one year since donald trump got his roy cohn. One year and three days since bill barr was sworn in for his second stint as attorney general of the United States. The department of justice is supposed to be nonpartisan. Thats foundational to our entire system of democracy. But during his second time around, the doj has been deeply partisan under attorney general barr. In just one year, barr has lied about the contents of the Mueller Report to spin it trumps way. He backed trumps absurd claim that the government had spied on the trump campaign. And he forced justice officials to defy congressional subpoenas tied to trump investigations. Not to mention the fact he has been going after trumps enemies one by one by targeting them in deeply
Were following the breaking news. Sony pictures now responding directly to president obama who says it was a mistake for the studio to pull its new comedy movie the interview amid threats from cyber terrorists. Sony entertainment ceo just sat down for an exclusive interview with cnns Fareed Zakaria. Fareed is standing by with that. We also have our correspondents and our guests on the breaking news, including congressman adam schiff. We begin with our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. What else did the president say about this fastchanging story . Reporter wolf, its been a tough year at times for president obama. But he had a spring in his step as he delivered a stern warning to north korea saying the communist nations leaders will pay a big price for the cyber attack on sony. Hello, everybody. Reporter on the most pressing issue facing him before he leaves washington, president obama said there will be a response for the hack attack that prompted sony to pull its movie the
Daughter ivanka were there with her husband jared kushner. The meeting comes hours after pence introduced trump last night at a rally in the Hoosier State. I often joke, youll be calling up mike pence, i dont know whether hes going to be your governor or Vice President. Who the hell knows . We have just five days to go before the Republican National convention and trump is promising to reveal his running mate by friday. The latest development as poll numbers show trump neck and neck. Trump leading 42 to clintons 39 . Thats a significant drop from the eightpoint lead last night. In pennsylvania 43 to 41. In ohio the race has tightened with trump and clinton tied at 41 . Meanwhile the list of fluids has gotten longer. Trump calling for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs resignation after she doubled down on comments criticizing him. Twum tweeted, justice bins gurg of the u. S. Supreme court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political comments about me. He was responding to
The president s economic team. Wall street already acting tonight negatively in contrast to what we are hearing from main street, praise for the president s tough stance on tariffs. We have got Team Coverage for you tonight. Trace gallagher with the latest on on this latebreaking showdown between the Trump Administration on the california, but we start with chief National Correspondent ed henry and what he is learning about the departure of white house Economic Advisor gary cohn. Shannon, great to see you. Breaking tonight, they are already plans to replace gary cohn from conservative supplyside economics, larry kudlow, to trade advisor peter navarro. Remember, he beat out cohn on the tariffs issue in recent days, while he was correct when he said, there is turnover in every single white house, there has been a particularly large number of departures recently from hope hicks to report her, multiple press secretaries, National Security advisors, yes, chiefs of staff. What is significant