Trust the president. New reporting on the president s humiliation of Jeff Sessions in the wake of the mueller appointment. And the Treasury Secretarys new excuse for asking the government to subsidize his honeymoon. They had to give up a lot to take these jobs. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The most prominent voices of the trump base discovered today what many of his Business Associates and customers learned long ago. If youre in business with donald trump, eventually youre going to end up on the wrong side of the deal. This afternoon in an offcamera session with reporters on Board Air Force one, the president defended his decision to work with democrats on a deal to protect undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children. In exchange for increased Border Security. Im a republican through and through, but im also finding that sometimes to get things through, its not working that way. And, you know, we got very poorly treated on the hea
that episode was confirmed independently to the new york times by a person with knowledge of the situation. on friday, hunter biden s lawyer abbe lowell pushed back in a letter to the gop chair of the house ways and means committee. called them, quote, disgruntled agents with a bias and axe to grind and accusing republican lawmakers of releasing the transcripts as, quote, an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client hunter biden as a vehicle to attack his father. so what actually happened here? joining me to discuss is glen thrush, washington correspondent for the new york times, where he covers the department of justice. thank you for being here. it s your new york times reporting that i referenced a moment ago. can all of these competing accounts somehow be squared? who knows? but i think one of the things that is becoming increasingly clear is merrick garland did not do a very good job of explaining the process to us when he
quote, an obvious employ to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, hunter biden,s and a vehicle to attack his father. so what actually happened here? joining me to discuss is glen thrush, washington correspondent for the new york times, where he covers the department of justice. thank you for being here. it s your new york times reporting that i referenced a moment ago. can all of these competing accounts somehow be squared? who knows? but i think one of the things that is becoming increasingly clear is merrick garland did not do a very good job of explaining the process to us when he addressed us on friday. this is a much more nuanced process than weiss having completely unlimited authority to move unilaterally. the process would entail, say he goes to d.c. and california and says to them, let s partner on prosecutions involving violations of the tax code and what we re really talking about here, according to the material
it s not been verified by nbc news. it s how close jack smith could be to the end in doj s probe in the ex-president s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. most definitely it is now coming to the ex-president himself. but we can safely expect doj s subpoena will very likely set the stage for more court battles over executive privilege. in line with trump s attempts to delay and delay and delay and obstruct any potentially incriminating testimony about him from his top lieutenants. let s bring in glen thrush. neal and kat ty are back with us. so, glen, when reporters preview something and then the following five days have a bombshell a day, they look really, really, really smart, so, you and your colleagues look really smart for your weekend story about jake smith ramping up. what do you make of this sort of drip, drip of disclosures this week, including this subpoena for mark meadows?
those things and they probably don t need all 1,000 transcripts right now but if they can give them what they need as they need it, i think that will be very helpful to the justice department so they don t hit national in the prosecution considering not only what the justice department is doing overtly but the kind of cooperation they re trying to achieve with defendants who may be under indictment or under investigation who have not yet entered guilty pleas. we should say, luke broadwater, you and your colleague, glen thrush, were the ones who broke this story. anything you want to add to that? yeah, thanks. we posted that just before i got on the air. the negotiations have been ongoing. i think that letter from the justice department really brought a lot of attention to this issue and we do now know that the committee says they will cooperate. we could see the transcripts as soon as next month, i m told. not we could see them but the justice department will see them. and that s i