Kc d. C. On msnbc, where was it . It was so good last night. Thank you. New york times reporter mata is with us and mike barn kal and National Affairs analyst John Heilemann is with us as well. Joe is off this morning. Were going to start with the firing of former fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabe. And President Trump now raising doubts about whether mccabe kept personal notes about their oval office meetings. Two people familiar with the case tell the Washington Post that mccabe memorialized his interactions with the president in memos which, if true, could become key pieces of evidence in Robert Muellers russia probe. On sunday morning, the president lashed out at the report, tweeting, spent very little time with Andrew Mccabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I dont believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying james comey. Can we call them fake memos . Hours later a lawyer for Andrew Mccabe tweeted, we will not be respond
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A special counsel russia investigation decried by the president as a hoax has now charged 19 people with federal crimes. As of tonight, four of those people have already pleaded guilty according to reporters, another may be on the verge of a guilty plea himself. That is Robert Muellers record thus far. And yet again, mueller demonstrated the public only knows a fraction of what he and his team have discovered. Yet again, he rolled out charges against an entirely new character in the russia saga whose name had never surfaced once in press reports. In this case, its al dex van der zwaan a dutch lawyer who used to work for one of the most elite Corporate Law firms in the world known as scadden. He pleaded guilty to lying about investigators about his kaks with former Trump Campaign aide rick gates and an individual identified only as person a in filings. Gates and onetime Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort were indict last fall on fraud charges rel
A fraud. But guess whose endorsement he just accepted. You cannot let mitt romney in this race. Hes a joker. When all in starts right now. Choked like a dog. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A special counsel russia investigation decried by the president as a hoax has now charged 19 people with federal crimes. As of tonight, four of those people have already pleaded guilty according to reporters, another may be on the verge of a guilty plea himself. That is Robert Muellers record thus far. And yet again, mueller demonstrated the public only knows a fraction of what he and his team have discovered. Yet again, he rolled out charges against an entirely new character in the russia saga whose name had never surfaced once in press reports. In this case, its al dex van der zwaan a dutch lawyer who used to work for one of the most elite Corporate Law firms in the world known as scadden. He pleaded guilty to lying about investigators about his kaks with former Trump Campaign aide ric
He is cohost and executive producer of the circus. Cofounder and ceo of axios jim vandehei, editor and chief of law fair benjamin wittis and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kc d. C. Kasie hunt is with us. Thank you for coming in. We will start with this complicated story this morning, the author of a confidential letter accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of Sexual Assault more than three decades ago identified herself on sunday. Christine blasey ford a 51yearold Research Psychologist in Northern California spoke publicly for the first time about the allegations in a report by the Washington Post. Ford alleges one summer during high school in the early 1980s kavanaugh and a friend drunkenly corralled her into a bedroom during a gathering of teenagers at a home in montgomery county, maryland. She alleges kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped her over her clothes grinding his body against her and attempting to pull off her bathing suit while his friend watch
President. Losing to george w. Bush and later barack obama. And he resisted a changing of the guard in politics often at odds with President Donald Trump and the two shared a little more in common than their political party. And, yet, mccain did not yield. Most wondrous land on earth, indeed. Ive had the good fortune to spend 60 years in service to this wondrous land. To fear the world we have organized and led the three quarters of a century, to boopd the ideals we advanced around the globe, to re fuse the obligations of International Leadership and duty to remain the last best hope of earth, for the same of some halfbaked spurious nationalist cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems. [ applause ] is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that americans consigned to the ash heap of history. Remarkable. He was known by his colleagues in the senate as a man unafraid to reach across the aisle. And unafraid of bucking his own p