something only four other u.s. presidents have enjoyed. a private visit with the queen at windsor castle for afternoon tea. overall biden is the 13th u.s. president to meet with the now 95-year-old monarch, this moment also marking the queen s first major engagement since the passing of prince philip in april, her husband of 73 years as biden moves into the nato summit in brussels, again air force one there which starts tomorrow, all attention will be focused on his upcoming face to face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. that s on wednesday. biden agreeing this morning with putin s earlier remarks that the u.s. relationship with russia is as bad as it s ever been. let me make it clear, i think he s right it s a low point, and it depends on how he responds to acting consistent with international norms. which in many cases he has not. cnn s jeff zeleny is in brussels for us. so jeff, the president expressing some optimism. however, ahead of his putin meetin
as leadership is partnership, and we do appreciate it and i think we can grow from that. i think we can, too. the united states has said before the u.s. is back. meanwhile, another bombshell to tell you about regarding that news about trump s justice department targeting democratic lawmakers. within the last couple hours, the new york times revealed that in february of 2018, trump s doj subpoenaed apple about an account that belonged to foreign white house counsel don mcgahn. apple was barred from telling mcgahn about it. apple has not responded to the times and the doj declined to comment. here s senate majority leader chuck schumer today. this was nothing less than a gross abuse of power, an assault on the separation of powers. i don t think we ve ever had a record of this happening in the past. and the issues should not be partisan. this is about separation of powers. joining me now, sohel kippur and jill wine-banks, author of the watergate girl. it is also bei
leak investigation. none of this was even remotely normal. as we learned last night what the doj did was unprecedented in who they targeted and this normal. as congressman schiff was being investigated, the chief executive was conducting a public vendeta that continued to the end of his term. little pencil neck ee e adam schiff. he has a little pencil neck. the smallest neck i ve ever seen. schi irks schiff, the most dishonest politician. wa watermelon head. we call him schiffty schifft. when you see him go out and lie and lie and stand at the mike. smart guy, by the way. you little pencil neck. you can chuck that up to a childish man behaving childish will you but he was the president and still is right now the unquestioned leader of his party so even as the doj s inspector general today began investigating the matter, republican lawmakers were down playing it. charles grassly saying in a statement today investigations into members of congress and staff are nothing new.
continues, a reminder just how far we have come in four years. and dr. peter hotez on the covid set black abroad. even as life returns to normal for so many here in america. this is what it feels like to be 100%! all in starts right now. good evening, from new york. i m kres hayes. we have been reporting, for months now, on this slow-motion insurrection. being carried out by republicans in congress and state houses and state parties all across the country. putting the pieces in place to do in the next election, what the mob failed to do on january 6th. but the mob, itself, at least, is facing some consequences consequences for their actions. by the justice department s count, we now have more than 450 people have been charged with federal crimes in connection with the attack. just a few months ago when we were following this, officials were expecting 2 to 300 charges and it just keeps growing day by day and week by week. tomorrow, fbi director christopher wray is go
block the mueller investigation. fire robert mueller. jeff andrew weissmann was on the other end of that stuff and wondering exactly what the president was up to. they documented a lot of it in the mueller report. but andrew weissmann has actually learned some things about don mcgahn as a result of this testimony. so that s going to be. interesting and i know mr. weisman was invoked by name during the testimony himself. which i m sure was a comfortable situation from it. he s right in the middle of this stuff. yeah, we re going to get right to that, rachel. all right, lawrence. thank you. thank you. as i said, it was two years, two years ago, the judiciary committee subpoenaed trump white house counsel don mcgahn to testify about what he had already testified about in interviews with special counsel robert mueller, whose investigation of russia s interference in the 2016 election to help donald trump had also become an investigation of obstruction of justice by donald