coup-plotting and pathologically duplicitous ex-president to subvert american democrat see and the process of given the persistent power of donald j. trump in the republican party and the depoched and decrepit party, will end the way it did with wyoming congresswoman liz cheney losing in a landslide. cheney s unforgivable sin in the ice of maga voters and a bunch of other republican voters, too, along with team trump cultivated and blessed the candidate who defeated her when it came to her conviction that trump is nothing more than an existential threat to our republic and cheney acknowledged as much. years ago i won this primary with 37% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.7% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.3% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required they go along with the lie of the 2720 election, that i would unravel our democratic system
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Deliberating three days after this. I think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. Thank you very much. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. The president appears to be terrified he has a quote rat in his midst. Inside the white house. That i should be clear, thats his word. Rat. Its not the kind of language we are used to hearing from the president of the United States who is, of course, entrusted by our constitution when suring the nations laws are faithfully executed and who is responsible for appointing our most senior Law Enforcement officers. Youd expect to hear that word in a very different context. Your uncle was a rat. Sit down, sit down. Your uncle was a rat and now hes in the witness protection program. Thats my fathers brother youre talking about. Now the president is assuring
the country not that he has obeyed and upheld the law but that he does not hire snitchs. Tweeting the naming Nort
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. So im going to be a little contrary here, chris, say i see where the president is coming from when he says this is a bit old news, my colleague, bob costa and i wrote in november when don mcgahn went before bob muellers interview team, sat down with verdicts two days straight so people have known for a long time that don mcgahn was cooperating with the investigation, that everyone who was in the white house was encouraged to voluntarily be engaged in these interviews. Now what we do know now is that after the week stories, by the times don mcgahns attorney has alerted and assured trumps own legal team that don mcgahn provided no information that was incriminating to the president , did not incriminate him. In fact, don mcgahns lawyer was putting tear mind to ease, sent them information saying my guy does not incriminate your guy. Are you serving the office of the presidency and you are serving the american public. Youve got to balance those two
Updates of the days news. Tell bob mueller anything that would incriminate President Trump. There was also the caveat that had he witnessed a crime he would have resigned. Can that be known for certain, depending on what else mueller has learned throughout the probe that don mcgahn did not offer anything that is incriminating to the president . Well, absolutely not. What we have right now is the word of mcgahns attorneys, and so people who were not privy to the conversations cannot know for sure what was told. The reality is it is a bit comforting to the president , of course, because theres ongoing concern that people close to him could Say Something that would harm him. But perhaps Mcgahn Didnt Share anything that could Incriminate Trump because there was nothing to Incriminate Trump, which is the Argument Trump has been making all of this time. But the reality is the investigation is ongoing and we will see more in the near future. Speaking of the reality, eugene, we are talking her
read that full indictment, 49 pages to get a grasp of the body of evidence. it was clear in my conversations with these trump supporters, they did not have any sort of interest in doing that. meanwhile, trump has denied any wrongdoing and an attorney for nauta has declined to comment, isabel rosales, cnn. the republican candidates aren t denying the reaction to the charges he s facing. here s what two of them told cnn. reading that indictment and looking at the selective omissions of both fact and law, then i m even more convinced that a pardon is the right answer here. we shouldn t be promising and holding out the fig leaf of a pardon, because that undermines our jury system. we don t need a commander in chief that disregards the nation s secrets from our nuclear secrets to our military responses to particular worldwide events. despite their opinions, new