This subject. He has picked his subject and really, really stuck with it. Really impressive to see. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, as rachel just showed you, mr. Stewart went to washington today and once again jon stewart went down to washington to once again plead to a House Committee for continued funding, this time permanent funding to support 9 11 First Responders who continue to this day they continue to get new diagnoses of deadly illnesses from their exposure to the toxins we now know where at ground zero immediately after the collapse of those buildings and for weeks and weeks and weeks after that. And at the end of this hour well hear more of what jon stewart had to say. But more importantly, and im sure jon stewart would agree that this is more important than what he had to say today. We will hear the testimony of some of those First Responders who joined jon stewart in that hearing room today, and one of them gave us details of what happened at ground zero on 9 1
Party circles on behalf of the russian government. This case took a turn at the end into really interesting counterintelligence territory, which i think speaks to what we just learned about the Trump Administration in the Mueller Report. So as the nra convenes, the nra infiltrating russian agent was sentenced today. We will have that report ahead as well, along with some expert help to sort that out. What prosecutors were trying to tell us in the resolution of the case today. Thats coming up. We are, of course, one week out now since the redacted report was released from Robert Muellers investigation. The president , of course, had initially said that muellers report was the best news for him ever. Now every day, he has denounced the report and everything in it to the point where he is now publicly accusing his own white House Counsel, don mcgahn, of having lied to the special counsels office. Mcgahn told the special counsel and the fbi that President Trump had directed him to fire spe
Whole staff. He basically said just as a heads up, you guys, on a typical day ill start the day with 10 to 15 credible ideas for maddow blog posts. This morning i had 29. And that was before new stuff started happening. If youve never seen steve sort of rattled like that, hes a very even keel guy, but it has, in fact, been a very busy news day. And big news stuff, in fact, has kept happening all day. It started actually in the middle of the night last night with the almost unbelievable news that the Trump Administration is going to ask the courts to take away Health Insurance from 21 Million People who have it today. 21 million americans. You or someone you know has Health Insurance today who didnt used to have it because of the Affordable Care act, because of obamacare. Republicans ouflk promised and promise and promised that they would kill obamacare. They would get rid of it as soon as they were in power in washington. When republicans in fact got into power and got complete control
Panicked note to me and the whole staff. He basically said as a heads up, you guys, on a typical day ill start the day with ten to 15 credible ideas for maddowblog posts. This morning i had 29 and that was before new stuff started happening. Ive never seen steve rattled like that. Hes a very even keel guy. It has, in fact, been a very busy news day and big news stuff. In fact, has kept happening all day. It started actually in the middle of the night last night with the almost unbelievable news that the Trump Administration is going to ask the courts to take away Health Insurance from 1 million who have it today. 21 million americans. You or someone you know has Health Insurance today who didnt used to have it because of the Affordable Care act, because of obamacare. Republicans, of course, promised and promised that they would kill obamacare and get rid of it as soon as they were in power in washington. When republicans got into power and got complete control of government of the 2016
Rosenstein has just submitted his letter of resignation. Hell be leaving the Justice Department in two weeks. Yet another sign that the embattled Deputy Attorney general is perhaps more likely to be remembered as a Trump Administration figure than he will be as a Justice Department figure. Rosensteins Resignation Letter today went out of its way to compliment and thanks President Trump for the president s demeanor and attitude and courtesy toward rosenstein during their, quote, personal conversations. Dont say that part out loud. For basically the entire duration of Rod Rosensteins tenure as Deputy Attorney general, hes been directly overseeing a massive criminal investigation into this president and his campaign. So that means he shouldnt be having personal conversations with the president at all, let alone multiple ones. For him now to be compliment and go thanking the president for how awesome all of their personal conversations were while he was Deputy Attorney general overseeing t