I just turned and looked at my producer as well as the staff who works on my show and said, doesnt that feel like a whole bunch of other stuff is about to break . Some day, well do that show that we have planned to do in the early afternoon today, but everything has changed since then. All right, lots going on. President trump hired former new york city mayor Rudy Giuliani six days ago, to be his personal lawyer. Specifically to represent him in the russia investigation. And that was fascinating for a lot of reasons. First and foremost, the news was, wow, hey, finally, somebody said yes. All right, the president has had a lot of trouble filling out his russia legal team. By our latest count, based on public reporting, as best as we can tell, we think the president has asked and been rejected by at least 12 different lawyers, just in the past few weeks. Now, in a normal presidency, even a normal troubled presidency, it would be very unusual for a president to not be able to get anyone h
Similar wall street crash in the future, those Safety Measures will now, in large part, be stripped away. Congress passed this repeal, literally on the same day it was reported that the big banks in this country just had their most profitable quarter ever. So, its not like then banks needed relief from the onerous regulation here that was holding them back. Theyre doing better than ever. Congress still felt the need to do even more. So, as a nation, we will saw the seat belts out of the cars and see what happens. President trump is expected to sign the bill, of course. And the distant roar you hear is not peepers looking for dates on a warm spring night. Those are champagne corks hitting the ceiling at every firm on wall street. Remarkable decision today. Hold onto your wallet for this one. The president s legal jeopardy may have taken a leap forward tonight, with news first broken in the New York Times that there is yet another new cooperating witness in the investigation that has bee
Our presidency has been debased by a figure who seemingly has a bottomless appetite for destruction and division, and only a passing familiarity with how the constitution works. And our article i branch of government, the congress, thats me, is utterly supine. In the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the white house daily. Now, you might reasonably ask, wheres the good news in that . Well, simply put, we may have hit boston. This is it, if youve been wondering what the bottom looks like. This is what it look likes when you stress test all of the institutions that undergird our constitutional democracy at the same time. How did we arrive at such a moment of great peril wherein the president of the United States publicly threatens on fox friends, historians will note, to interfere in the administration of justice and seems to think that the office confers on him the ability to decide who and what gets investigated and who and what does not. And just this week, the president , o
Hes put up millions of dollars basically as security, telling the government he wont flee the country, he wont flee prosecution. Hes wearing ankle bracelets hes wearing one or two ankle bracelets and hes promised to put up millions of dollars in property and cash to say that he can be left at home rather than in jail while he awaits these charges. The special counsels Office Tonight has said that while hes been out on bail, while hes been on pretrial release Paul Manafort has been tampering with witnesses in his case and he should therefore effectively be jailed, and theyre demanding that from a judge this evening. That news is just breaking tonight. Were just getting in that filing. I in fact just read it as i was getting makeup put on just moments ago. Were going to have some expert help in terms of figuring out what that means and how serious this is for the president s Campaign Chair, potentially for the president coming up in just a moment. Stay tuned for that. In the meantime, th
Within two days, though, the president slipped off that original rationale like he was falling off a slippery rock, when he told Nbcs Lester Holt that actually, when he made the decision to fire . J7z comey, hed the russia issue on his mind. And then, he said the same thing to highranking russian officials, who he invited into c toe the oval office. He said, quote, i just fired the head of the fbi. I faced great pressu4az puaq of russia. Thats taken off. James comey himself saidsia seemed to him that he was getting fired because of the russia investigation. Do you believe the russia investigation played a role . In why i was fired . Yes. Yes, because ive seen the president say so. I take the president at his word that i was fired because of the russia investigation. Something about the way i was conducting it, the president felt created pressure on him that he wanted to relieve. Just like all the rest of us, james comey saw the president admit to lester holt, saw the president brag to