Nuclear weapons . And we reported it here first. And the three were iran, as we said at the time. The second issue just generally, why cant we just generally . A desire to go to war. And the third was north korea. If weve got Nuclear Weapons, why cant we use them against north korea . You gave a very impassioned plea. Republicans, americans, think about what youre doing. Youre electing somebody who has a desire to use Nuclear Weapons and has talked to one of the most important people in u. S. Foreign policy and has asked them three times in an hour briefing why we cant use Nuclear Weapons. Its frightening. Thats where we are. Its frightening. And corker is now highlighting this concern with real insight from his position in washington. Meanwhile, Vice President mike pence makes a public show of turning his back on the nfl in a preplanned protest to players taking a knee during the national anthem. And, of course, it costs taxpayers a lot of money to fly there, secure a stadium only to
Clear that nobody has ever, ever fanned being fired from the white house into better press and more supposed influence than steve bannon. Literally steve bannon fired from the white house and went back to running a website and all supposed to see that as a gigantic promotion to be the lark overlord . In a white house as powerless as this one, is it possible for a white house adviser to actually be more powerful at a website . I want to get stuff done. Im leaving the white house. Sarah palin approach to governing alaska. There we are. Thank you. Thank you. Senator bob corker chooses his words very, very carefully. He had several days to decide what he was going to say when the trump attack on him finally came. And that attack came yesterday. And bob corker hit back much harder than the president hit him. We could be heading towards world war ii with these kind of comments that hes making. Could be the calm before the storm. What storm, mr. President . Youll find out. Hes just putting on
Over the rise of antiestablishment forces and comes amid escalating frustration over President Trumps conduct. Which has prompted a handful of lawmakers to publicly criticize the president. The campaign will highlight bannons hardline populism and attempt to link him to White Nationalism to discredit him and the candidates he supports. Better late than never, i guess. Lets get to our reporters and guests. Ashley parker, White House Reporter for the Washington Post. And at the table, Heidi Przybilla for usa today, philip bump for the Washington Post, tad devine, democratic strategist and former Senior Adviser to Bernie Sanders campaign and old friend of mine from the campaign trails and david jolly. Ashley parker, let me start with you and some of this great reporting in the Washington Post today about im not sure why this is a new effort or a new idea but it may be the last best idea to try to save some of these Establishment Republicans from retiring. Yeah, i mean, i think what youre
A president who acts like hes doing the apprentice or something. And i know for a fact that every single day at the white house, its a situation of trying to contain him. Corker referenced tweets that trump made on twitter about secretary of state Rex Tillersons diplomatic efforts with north korea, in which the president undercut tillerson, telling him to save your energy, rex. Corker said a lot of people think that there is some kind of good copbad cop act under way, but thats just not true. I know he was hurt in several instanc instances. Hes hurt us in regards to negotiations that were under way by tweeting things out. Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what were dealing with here, he said, outsiding that , of course, they understand the volatility that were dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road. Now, according to the times, corker would not directly answer when
Explosive new details about the kind of operation Cambridge Analytica was handling. And why facebooks handling of a massive data intrusion. I understand that facebook was how donald trump was going to win. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. New reporting tonight that President Trumps lawyers are now turning documents over to special Counsel Robert Mueller in hopes of limiting the scope of muellers interview with the president. That news comes in the wake of the president unleashing his first direct attacks on the special counsel as he appears poised to begin a fullout offensive on the man who could take down his presidency. The floodgates opened after attorney general jeff session fired now former fbi director Andrew Mccabe late on friday amid massive pressure to do so from the white house and trump allies on trump tv for weeks and weeks and months at a time. They did that less than two days before mccabe was set to retire and collect his full pen