Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. The other question is there are still missing facts, which is the phone call don junior made to the blocked number and what happened after the meeting that are going to be really important in determining whether there is, in fact, legal jeopardy. You have to remember this is one data point. Were focused on it because of don juniors testimony, his involvement of the emails that came out. And we have Public Knowledge of it. Exactly. Theres another wrinkle and this came out last week is that there may have apparently been a premeeting and one of the attendees may be rick gates, todays star witness in the manafort trial. If he was there at that meeting he has told mueller and his Team Everything about that meeting. What i see with this shift with trump is what has been going on repeatedly in trump world, which is when they sense that theres some bad news coming out, they try to change the story, admit to a little bit, but not the worst part. It star
the first one is d.j.t.j. the second is laura ingraham. we ll discuss both on the other side. i wish my name was hunter biden. i could go abroad, make millions off of my father s presidency. i d be a really rich guy. it would be incredible. there is no gop in 2020 without trump. should you abandon him on these spurious grounds ginned up by the veenle adam schiff, you ll only not grow the party, you ll lose everything. so, rick, whoa, first of all. number one, d.j.t.j. is that some olympic gaslighting that we re witnessing. and number two, to ms. ingraham s point, what you just saw there, that s what whips do in congress. that s majority whip kind of stuff done usually in cloak rooms in the back room. well, to first don junior, irony dies on hannity pretty much on the daily, but that was
spurious grounds ginned up by the veenle adam schiff, you ll only not grow the party, you ll loss everythi lose everything. so, rick, whoa, first of all. number one, d.j.t.j. is that some olympic gaslighting that we re witnessing. and number two, to ms. ingraham s point, what you just saw there, that s what whips do in congress. that s majority whip kind of stuff done usually in cloak rooms in the back room. well, to first don junior, irony dies on hannity pretty much on the daily, but that was a moment where the national irony reserves were drained. the well is empty. it s done. it s over. i mean if this family if the trump, you know, syndicate hasn t been lavishly profiting off of these things, i would be shocked, you know, to find anyone who would believe that.
rudy understands that he s facing for his client an impeachment question. it s like they re effectively kind of dripping out the facts. they re trying to get ahead of the facts because they know these facts are coming out, but you have to sit back and ask yourself if all of this is as innocent as trump claims, if this is all what people do in the normal course, then why are they all lying about it? and the reason for that is they re still lying about it. what you didn t talk about in the beginning of the show in terms of the crime involved, all you need to do is look at the russian indictment of the 12 russian nationals that were recently indicted in a conspiracy that included not only breaking into the democratic national committee and stealing documents, but also staging the release of those documents. right. and if you recall, don junior in response to the letter that
the other question is there are still missing facts, which is the phone call don junior made to the blocked number and what happened after the meeting that are going to be really important in determining whether there is, in fact, legal jeopardy. you have to remember this is one data point. we re focused on it because of don junior s testimony, his involvement of the e-mails that came out. and we have public knowledge of it. exactly. there s another wrinkle and this came out last week is that there may have apparently been a pre-meeting and one of the attendees may be rick gates, today s star witness in the manafort trial. if he was there at that meeting he has told mueller and his team everything about that meeting. what i see with this shift with trump is what has been going on repeatedly in trump world, which is when they sense that there s some bad news coming out, they try to change the story, admit to a little bit, but not the worst part. it started with adoptions and now t